Codeweaver's Crossover 4.0 Adds iTunes Support

nbahi15 writes "Codeweavers has released v4 of its Wine implementation with the addition of support for iTunes. To quote their web site, 'iTunes works, and can do everything we thought was important; play music, access the store, and sync with an iPod. It can't burn CDs right now, and it has some fairly serious warts (sound is tricky, particularly with 2.6 kernels, and getting the iPod going is hard), but we think it's usable.' Finally I can use the single most important 'productivity' application on Linux."

SyncPod

[mrfibbi]

get Syncpod (http://armin.emx.at/ipod/). Neat little perl script that syncs a directory of music and m3u playlists into the ipod. Works great for anyone who likes keeping music organized by directory and id3 tag and not by any particular program.

Re:Nice and all. But....

[jeremy_white]

I'm glad someone else said this...when I said it [codeweavers.com] I figured folks would think I was just whining (although we are the Whine guys :-/).

Earlier news.com story...

[GillBates0]

dated Aug 2 here [com.com]. Apparently the preview version has been available to CrossOver Office customers for a while.

Use Gtkpod

[atmos]

Let's all emulate windows software when we actually have feasible solutions for Linux! Wait...

It works with your ipod, it works with xmms, and it works in 2.4 and 2.6.

Gtkpod [sf.net]

Re:Running itunes?

[jwnewman]

http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/brow se/name?app_id=206

Steam does work in CrossOver, but due to the lack of DirectX 9 support, Half-Life 2 does not work yet. On the bright side, all the Half-Life 1 engine games do.

Re:Nice and all. But....

[Anonymous Coward]

QT is required. That's what actually plays for audio.

Re:itunes is a monster!

[Hatta]

I can't figure out what the big deal is with it. Some really fundamental operations are a pain in the ass with itunes. For instance, if I drop a .m3u on an audio player, I expect it to open the m3u and play the files in order. With itunes, it adds the songs to the library and scatters them around with the other songs. You have to manually create a new playlist and drop the .m3u in there, and it still gets the songs out of order. I'll stick with mplayer.

Re:Where is Apple in all of this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ummm.... now?

http://darwine.opendarwin.org/

Re:Nice and all. But....

[deander2]

> are you required to install the nagware called Quick Time?
most likely. see:

"I am very glad to announce that we have shipped Version 4 of CrossOver Office, with new support for iTunes, Framemaker 7.1, JInitiator, and Quicktime 6.5.2."
http://crossover.codeweavers.com/pipermail/announc e/2004-November/000027.html [codeweavers.com]

note quicktime at the end of the list.

Re:From your perspective, I'm sure...

[Slack3r78]

You might find Hymn interesting. Works well for me.
Hymn DRM Stripper [hymn-project.org]

Re:Where is Apple in all of this?

[ravenspear]

I mean come on, 99+% of all open source Linux apps can run natively on OS X

This is the difference. iTunes is not an open source app. It heavily uses proprietary code (Carbon) derived from the classic MacOS (9 and earlier). They would have to port that API to linux before they could port the app. That would be a large effort considering the small market share of Linux. Porting to Windows was a bit easier as there was a huge opportunity to expand iTMS and iTunes revenues, and they had already ported Carbon to Windows.

idiot mods, this is a troll

[Ender Ryan]

1. Linux is not "shareware".

2. "no kernel support for XML" is complete gibberish.

3. "cut-n-paste" between apps works just fine these days.

Obviously there are reasons people don't get a Mac, cost often being #1.

Re:itunes is a monster!

[loquacious d]

Try dragging the .m3u into the playlist pane. It should create a new playlist containing those songs (as well as add them to the library).

Re:opposits attract?

[Bullet-Dodger]

iTunes does not equal DRM, the iTunes music store does. iTunes is just a music player.

It works.

[nbahi15]

I have been using iTunes on Linux since the earliest betas. To be a little less cautious than Codeweavers it works well. It plays music, music shares work, iTMS works, iPod sync works. I would say that is is rock solid. What is annoying is the lack of CD support which is planned in an upcoming release. The only other hassle is they need to support the latest Windows Media Player so people that have WMA files can convert them to AAC or MP3.

Please note the quote in the article from Codeweaver's is part of their REAL DIRT policy. They are cautious in making claims about the software working perfectly on every system, in every circumstance.

Re:No Mac emulator yet?

[profet]

um... you might want to look up what WINE stands for...

here's a hint:

W ine
I s
N ot an
E mulator

Re:When I read things like

[lostmymirth]

"[...]I'm running Win4Lin[...] think I'll go download iTunes for Windows something soon."

Good luck getting a WinNT/XP program to run under Win4Lin. Last time I checked Win4Lin only supports Win9x/Me.

How to get your iPod working on Linux

[p0]

The latest iPods (mini, click-wheel, limited edition and photo) have problems getting mounted on Linux. The issue is discussed here [redhat.com]. The fix, is to disable EFI partition support in the kernel and recompiling it.

iPod Batteries

[ZxCv]

Besides I like to be in control of my music and my gear and I don't like when I can't replace the battery like the way the iPod is setup.

I think by now, anyone bitching that they "can't" replace an iPod battery is just looking for something to bitch about. Seems to me that there are more [ipodbattery.com] than one [apple.com] place to get replacement batteries [ipodresq.com] for the iPod, and it even only takes about 5 mins to do the replacement yourself.