iTunes on Ubuntu and all its official variants

2013-12-13 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Hi, Kindly have a read at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2193567 Thoughts? Thank you! -- Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us." Best Regards, amjjawad Areas of Involvement My Proj

iTunes on Ubuntu and all its official variants

2013-12-19 Thread Eric Bradshaw
Ali, I feel for you. I managed to switch my whole family to *buntu from Apple Macs, but my wife was by far the hardest to convince. I ended up setting up Ubuntu for her like a Mac - with launcher(s), menu placement, etc. that mimicked the Mac OS "look and feel" - which is what it's all about. S

iTunes on Ubuntu and all its official variants

2013-12-24 Thread Eric Bradshaw
I thought I'd throw another two cents in about iTunes (and the iLife suite). I last mentioned it was the look and feel of iTunes and the whole Mac experience my wife was after, but if someone simply wants functionality and choice I think Linux in general and Lubuntu specifically is a good choic

Re: iTunes on Ubuntu and all its official variants

2013-12-13 Thread Britt Dodd
Congratulations on trying to convert the neighborhood over to Linux. Thumbs up! The two that I know of are Banshee (excellent GUI) and Amarok. I've personally used Banshee, and its integration with iPods and Apple products are pretty seamless. There was an issue back in 2007 when the iPod media li

Re: iTunes on Ubuntu and all its official variants

2013-12-13 Thread Israel
How do you get newer devices to work with Banshee? Or ones that have never been 'activated' by iTunes. That is a rather big issue. Setting the Firewire GUID doesn't seem to help, either. I have also heard that the current version of Rhythmbox works as well, but I have never had success with any

Re: iTunes on Ubuntu and all its official variants

2013-12-13 Thread Andre Rodovalho
The VM solution will work... I have already used a Vbox to flash and root an Android device... But for that, you need to set "optional" extention to have USB 2.0 AFAIK VM is completely transparent, so, you will be able to run everything, if the "hardware" the VM offer is enough... 2013/12/13 Isr

Re: iTunes on Ubuntu and all its official variants

2013-12-14 Thread Israel
This reply was posted on Ubuntu Forums, so I thought I'd post it here for all of you: Hello all, Let me just start this response off by saying that I'm brand new to the StartUbuntu initiative, but I support it wholeheartedly. I've already converted my wife's Dell Inspiron laptop to Lubuntu (af

Re: iTunes on Ubuntu and all its official variants

2013-12-20 Thread John Hupp
On 12/20/2013 2:00 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: Ali, I feel for you. I managed to switch my whole family to *buntu from Apple Macs, but my wife was by far the hardest to convince. I ended up setting up Ubuntu for her like a Mac - with launcher(s), menu placement, etc. that mimicked the Mac OS "look

Re: iTunes on Ubuntu and all its official variants

2013-12-20 Thread Israel
On 12/20/2013 09:11 AM, John Hupp wrote: > On 12/20/2013 2:00 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: >> Ali, I feel for you. I managed to switch my whole family to *buntu >> from Apple Macs, but my wife was by far the hardest to convince. I >> ended up setting up Ubuntu for her like a Mac - with launcher(s), >>

Re: iTunes on Ubuntu and all its official variants

2013-12-20 Thread Andre Rodovalho
The problem is to make hardware to work on Linux, as already said here... Apple sure does this intentionally, and that sucks! I recommend to migrate to an Android too, every change is a pain, but... this is for the good! Android own more than 70% of the world's market. I know this is different in