I just took another stab at itunes with wine.. with much success!
1 – download the latest itunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
2 – install wine
sudo apt-get install wine
3 – configure wine
winecfg
-change the windows version to XP
-set up your sound card with the audio tab
4 – run (in the directory of the downloaded installer)
wine ./iTunes743Setup.exe
By no means does it run perfectly, but the functionality is there and I expect will continue to be improved.
Would this allow you to stream music to an Airport Express adapter connected to a stereo (and control it from an iPhone) – in the same way that you can with OSX or Windows?
nah, amarok and rhythmbox, both apps have a poor sound quality. Maybe Songbird or Banshee… but i want to sync my iPhone, so this is just what i need (but im still waiting for the project iphone linux!)
This will help alot if it works I have an apple desk top and alot of music bought from the Itunes store, while I was able to get around the drm by manually copying the files off my ipod nano ( I don't know why or how it worked but it did ) I do like how well the home sharing works with Itunes from my apple desktop. I do with there was a native iTunes for linux, however I think apple wants to do everything it can right now to keep suppressed until it can take a larger market share of the home computer segment. Then we might see more support for linux machines.
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iTunes 10.5.3 for Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 on wine-1.0.1 on Debian squeeze. Also did not work with wine from squeeze-backports. Running amd64 userland which was a mistake ;( like Alpha and Itanic not Sparc and Power.
iTunesSetup.exe says: iTunes Installer Completed
The installer encountered errors before iTunes could be
configured.
Errors occurred during installation. Your system has not
been modified.
Please run the installers again, or click Finish to exit.
[Finish]
Will try 64bit installer.
Trying to load PE image for unsupported architecture (AMD-64) in wine which is good as you 64-bit userland like hole in the head. Leaving wine as XP.
If you have spare windows o/s licence, why not run a vm desktop via oracle virtualbox on your linux machine and run Itunes from that. Works perfect on my windows xp virtual desktop
Would this allow you to stream music to an Airport Express adapter connected to a stereo and control it from an iPhone