itunes
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?
On Ubuntu 13.04 what worked for me with an iPhone 4 and ios 7 is to use a USB3.0 jack. The USB jacks on the front of a PC are typically 2.0, I could not connect using them.
You can try using PlayOnLinux.
PlayOnLinux is a graphical tool supplementing Wine.
To install PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu follow the below steps:
sudo wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Add playonlinux repository and install it
sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_precise.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install playonlinux
In case you get an error, do this else skip to next
sudo apt-get install curl p7zip-full p7zip-rar
Now run it
sudo playonlinux
iTunes on Ubuntu
Best Answer
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.