iTunes help?

Subaroo7 · #1 27th May 2008, 02:53 PM

Recently I switched from windows to Fedora 9. I don't know linux, but i'm learning. I have searched all over for a solution and have found nothing. I installed Wine and then proceeded to install iTunes, I got it installed but it won't play my music. No sound, no timer telling me how much of the song is played and no bar moving to tell me the same.

Other people said to use Banshee, but it sucks too. It plays some, but not all of my music and I can't find any plugins for it, if I need any. I really like Fedora so far, it's just a lot to get used to all at once when i'm used to installing a program and then it works.

any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks.

forkbomb · #2 27th May 2008, 03:49 PM

Unless you really like the shopping and podcasting functions of iTunes, there's little reason to run a music player through WINE on a Linux machine, in my probably overrated opinion. For plugins, see here:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...ra-f9.html#mp3

Make sure you see above for enabling the Livna repository first. And see the notes on sudo.
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...a-f9.html#sudo
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...ra-f9.html#yum

The short of it is this:

Code:

su -
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

(This will enable the Livna repository for yum, Fedora's package manager. Typically, people use a third-party repository - the Livna repository - for restricted bits like codecs. Off the top of my head, I believe the command to install plugins for Banshee would be:

Code:

su -
yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly

(Run after enabling Livna.)

I consider amarok to be a great drop-in replacement to iTunes, again as long as you don't need stuff like podcasting and the iTunes store.

Code:

su -
yum install amarok amarok-extras-nonfree

That will install Amarok and the plugins for stuff like mp3s.

Subaroo7 · #3 28th May 2008, 02:11 PM

Thanks very much! I enabled livna and installed the gstreamer plugins as you had said to do and then reinstalled banshee on my computer and it played the songs it wouldn't a couple days ago. I will miss the iTunes store, but I care more about my music playing and syncing to my ipod. Thank you.