{"id":476,"date":"2011-01-27T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2011\/01\/27\/itunes-on-linux\/"},"modified":"2011-02-01T23:50:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T21:50:38","slug":"itunes-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2011\/01\/27\/itunes-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes on linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Read the update below!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hate to admit it: today I created an iTunes store account. In my defense, I felt forced, as the CD I wanted to buy was only available as a physical CD and not in digital download form. It will probably become available in digital form in a year or so, but who wants to buy a 2010 compilation CD in 2012? \ud83d\ude09 And who wants a jewel case CD which you have to rip anyway to have any use of it (besides gathering dust).<\/p>\n<p>So today, once again, I gave installing iTunes on linux another try. I followed the google #1 guide which suggested to install an old version (7.2). Unfortunately, when you go to the store, it says it can&#8217;t connect or that the service is temporarily down or something. So I thought, wine updates every 5 breaths, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if it actually runs the latest version. Store connection works indeed in iTunes 10! I created a login from within iTunes, made a test purchase, and yes, we have lift off. \ud83d\ude42 I can see how iTunes is such a success. Just type in the search box, click and a few seconds later you have a high quality drm free mp4\/AAC on your harddrive. Very tempting indeed. And the excellent recommendation system only encourages too of course.<br \/>\nA guide for converting to mp3 (or wave) from within iTunes can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ht1550\">here<\/a>. I don&#8217;t need that on the desktop, .m4a plays back fine, but my car lofi radio only plays mp3\/wma.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still a bit confused as to why the CD is only downloadable from iTunes and not form the publisher&#8217;s webshop. I guess they have an exclusive deal with Apple to only release the downloads after some time..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> The next morning I arrived at work and installed iTunes to download my newly purchased album. Surprise, surprise! <strong><em>iTunes does not allow one to redownload a purchased song!!<\/em> <\/strong>It&#8217;s insanely unbelievable in this time and age, but yes, it is impossible right now. I guess most people don&#8217;t know any other way, but for a lot of gamers who use steam, it is the most ordinary thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the update below! I hate to admit it: today I created an iTunes store account. In my defense, I felt forced, as the CD I wanted to buy was only available as a physical CD and not in digital download form. It will probably become available in digital form in a year or so, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2011\/01\/27\/itunes-on-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iTunes on linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}