El Tunes gives Linux users iTMS playback capabilities
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 26th 2008 4:51AM
posted Jul 26th 2008 4:51AM
It has been a solid tick since we've seen a good FairPlay hack, so it's with great pleasure that we pass along El Tunes for Ubuntu 8.04 users everywhere. Tested to work on Hardy Heron using RhythmBox (but assumed to work on any modern Linux Distro with GStreamer and a media player that utilizes GStreamer), said plug-in enables open-source aficionados to play songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store. As for limitations, the current version has no Pause / Seek support and cannot de-authorize a machine for playback, but a future version should hopefully cure those two quirks and add support for purchased video content and audio streaming to an AirTunes device. Give it a shot and let us know how it treats ya.
wow.....no comments, might as well say FIRST and Low Rank myself.
:)
Meh.... I still need iPhone support for Linux...
Until then, I'll sit there with my starving babies, iPod Touch and openSUSE, waiting for the deadbeat father, Steve Jobs, to get off his balls and give me an iTunes for Linux.
But that won't happen because they're afraid Mac OS X users will realize "there's a Unix-based OS we don't have to pay for?" and jump ship. That's not likely... you're just likely to get a new market for your Touch lineup.
wow.....no comments, might as well say FIRST and Low Rank myself.
:)
Ouch double fail.
Olé!
Or, you could use Amazon's mp3 downloader for Linux and have no problems with playback
http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html?ie=UTF8&forceos=LINUX
The only hack you may need to do is trick the 64bit distro to accept the 32bit build. Other than that, no problems, and 256Kbps, no DRM, and cheap!
Can't find any songs that I actually want, though.
Absolutely. I use Amazon MP3 and I love it. However, this is very useful to those of us who amassed a large collection of iTunes music a few years ago, before there was an Amazon MP3 store. And video support? That's just fucking great. Amazon's video store, in addition to having a terrible selection, is DRM'd :(
Really? With more labels than iTunes and support from all four major labels (iTunes is down to one if I recall), what are you looking for that you can't find? I've yet to go hunting for music I actually wanted to pay for and not been able to find it at Amazon.
Thank you so much for this! It's amazing no one made an intelligent comment on something massive like this.
because hteres like, 5 linux users
@peekinde
actually, were just hard to find due to poor social skills
Amarok can't play encrypted apple music, square
@Square
Amorak still barfs at any samba-mounted drives during indexing, too. Amorak is popular because it comes pre-installed in many distros. It isn't the best though, not by a long shot.
This is a pretty cool bit of hacking. Sadly, Apple will pull down their code and see how they hacked iTMS and just release an "update" that will "update" all your old tracks and probably install more crap on whatever you're using to get iTunes music in the first place.
Or, be smart and refuse to buy any music with Digital Restrictions Malware...of which Amazon has none.
Anyone who uses RhythmBox instead of Amarok...well they just aren't cool at all.
Anyone who uses Amarok (KDE... just... blech.) instead of MPD... well they just aren't cool at all
Amarok runs on gnome; I would never use KDE desktop.
Ahem, excuse me while I express my excitement...
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Allow me to regain my composure.
Or because people using the open source Linux OSes don't generally buy propriety, locked down DRM music?
here here!
We're seeing for a third time with the Yahoo music store how dangerous DRM can be. I'm happy to support artists who release their music in a drm-free format so that I can enjoy it freely on any personal device. I pay for the right to enjoy the music, without limitations on how to enjoy it.
or, you could just use itunes under wine/crossover
that is a utter crap idea. have you even TRIED doing that?
they stole the first 4 digits of my name! (El T)
El-tunes does not work.
I can tell something has changed because Rhythmbox no longer says "This file is encrypted and cannot be played", it just says "There was an error in Gstreamer or Rhymthmbox".
So yeah...
sadly, didn't work for me either. banshee just crashes.
Did you run eltunes-auth first? You should have ~/.eltunes with two files in it or music playback won't work.
thanks for the reply, I'll test it out later. But, wow, that isn't on the website anywhere...
We are working on the banshee issue and should have it fixed for our preview 2 release on Tuesday.
First, this is very cool. Second, Amazon/eMusic FTW. Since most of the stuff I get is indie, I had to use iTunes a while ago in order to find it. Now, I just use extra downloads available to me on my eMusic "subscription" (not the typical subscription model) and pick up VBR MP3s of the same tracks. I didn't buy many tracks from iTunes over the 3 years owning iPods to begin with (hate DRM), so it wasn't that hard to backfill them.
Apple is gonna be so pissed...XD
They got a 0.2 version now.
And yeah, Apple did get pissy, so it's on the torrents now.