iTunes For Linux, Thanks To CodeWeavers

pizen writes "The folks over at CNet have the scoop that a new version of CrossOver Office (3.1) now supports Apple's iTunes. The preview version of the software is being tested and is currently only available to current CodeWeavers customers. They expect a final version to be available later this year." Reader snowtigger contributes a link to this screenshot. White demonstrated iTunes on a Linux machine at OSCON as well; a rendering glitch marred that demo, but he was still able to demonstrate playing back a song which he'd purchased from iTMS using iTunes on Linux.

Futurama Quote applicable

[CrackedButter]

Bender: What better way to celebrate our success than by me showing Bubblegum this globetrotters uniform I made myself.
BubbleGum: Let me see.
Bender shows him his uniform.
BubbleGum: Hello lawsuit *rubs palms*.

Re:Well, it saves Apple some work!

[Anonymous Coward]

its crossover - so, its running the windows version.

asshat.

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

oh look, a cheap bastard...

Re:Why would I use it?

[Quobobo]

You are not the only Linux user in the world. Some of them might even have these "iPods" you mention.

"The Hard-Bodied Sounds of the Gay Circuit..."?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ummm... yeah. Great screenshot.

Screenshot Confusion

[Nutcase]

I looked at the screenshot and saw the OS X like buttons... my first thought was "Wow! They ported Crossover to OS X so now I can run iTunes on my mac!!"

Then I realized what I was thinking, and felt dumb.

Screenshot

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, great screenshot! It really shows us... ummm... well, what iTunes looks like.

Re:Finally!!!

[Nexum]

Lacking in what way exactly?

WinAmp has always had a non-standard small, confusing and cluttered interface. It tries to have every control available to you within the space of a postage stamp on screen, and the effect is woeful.

From the sound of it you've never used iTunes. And iTunes "catching up" yeah... must be tough catching up with the full quality built in cd ripping to MP3 AAC WAV etc. that WinAmp does. Oh and catching up with the one click CD burning that WinAmp does. Oh and the online music sotre integration that WinAmp has. Oh and the easy interoperability with my iPod that WinAmp manages.

Seriously though, all the WinAmp features you've mentioned have been done in iTunes for years.

Go download it and give it a whirl.

Re:Finally!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

"Being able to search your entire library for a song or artist and have the entire search result be your playlist is just one possibility. Bookmarks, rating songs, recently played songs, most played songs, being able to scroll through your entire library are other nice features."

So which of these features is iTunes missing now?

Everybody doing Apple's work for them

[jamesmrankinjr]

First Real makes their player compatible with the iPod. Now someone makes iTunes available on Linux.

Apple hardly needs to do a thing to improve iTunes. Their competitors are doing it all for them.

Peace be with you,
-jimbo

Re:It's still all unix

[LetterJ]

"Slashdot pundit who doesn't know what he's talking about".

Isn't that America's favorite game show?

Re:Hmmm

[discstickers]

Repeat after me: "iTunes is not just a music store."

Good, I knew you could do it.

what good?

[TheUser0x58]

What good is this when we already have Linspire's lsongs [linspire.com]?

Re:Hidden Significance

[FauxPasIII]

> DRM is a pipe dream. There is a fundamental physical reason why it
> will never work, though a formal mathematical proof escapes me right now

I've got one, but it's too big to be contained in the margins of this site.

Re:Finally!!!

[Moofie]

Is there any good documentation for this Byzantine interface, or do I just have to keep clicking on stuff at random, to get it to do what I want it to do?