Install iTunes on Ubuntu

Question

I've always been an Ubuntu lover, but the only thing that holds me back from installing ubuntu on my laptop is iTunes. I have an iPad and an iPod touch and managing them without itunes is almost next to impossible, mainly because of ios upgrades.

Is there any way out?

Solution

After extensive testing, I was unable to get iTunes Music Store to work - at all. Complete fail. The best I could achieve was to get the music player to work.

Frustrated, I went looking for a decent alternative. Enter Google Music...

It might be worth a look-see because it'll work no matter what device or OS you use, because it's web-based.

Being web-based, it offers way better features, like the choice of multiple downloads of music purchased and/or streaming it from anywhere from the cloud. You can also upload your music to the cloud too - upto 20,000 tracks for free. The Store music is high-quality (320kbps) mp3, which is playable on many players available today.

Sorry, not meaning it to sound like an advert, but it's really that good!

Baldrick.

Comments

[Admin]

AFAIK you do not need iTunes to upgrade iOS on an iPad (since iOS 5)

[Admin]

I tried installing it through Play On Linux and it did not work for me. Going to try the VM suggestion from - ubuntuka.com/itunes-ubuntu-linux

[PLL]

I was prompted by this to try Google Music, and I'd urge other readers not to get their expectations up too high. Seen as a streaming music service with some cloud storage on the side, it's pretty good. If you come to it wanting a replacement for iTunes, for storing and managing your music library, you will be disappointed. The biggest issue is that it's difficult to upload individual songs or selentions; you can only upload an entire library, which is (inevitably) very slow, and happens in slightly unpredictable order. Also quality is limited, to a degree audible on most headphones.

[sam]

Do you manage to synchronize iDevices using this ?

[Hi-Angel]

@smonff does synchronization require USB? If it does, it definitely won't work, because Wine (and playonlinux being a wrapper around it) doesn't have a wrapper around a Windows USB API. Multiple years ago someone tried hooking it up, but probably couldn't finish, for whatever reasons.

[sam]

@Hi-Angel thanx