Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Joshua D Doll
Date: Friday, March 21, 2008 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote:
>
>> Michael Schmarck wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell
>>> me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86
>>> system? Is it possible to change the store location to something
>>> other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP
>> with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod,
>> because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(.
>>
>> --Joshua Doll
>>
>
> But you have no way to burn an audio-cd from it and thus get rid of drm,
> right?
>

I've burned a copy of CDs from within the VM, but not using iTunes. I
personally don't have very many DRM'd music, like I said I just use it
to transfer m4a (apple lossless which is not DRM'd) files to my iPod.


--Joshua Doll
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