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iTunes syncing now works in Linux with Wine
by Jay Hathaway Mar 4th 2008 at 3:30PM
But now iTunes on Linux is reportedly able to recognize and sync all iPod models, including the Touch and the iPhone. Maarten Lankhorst recently alerted the wine-devel mailing list that he got iPod-iTunes syncing to work on a Linux system with Wine, iTunes 7.6, and minimal patches. Good news for anyone whose 'Pod wasn't supported by the available open source apps.
There's still a little more work to be done before this will work on unpatched Wine: direct access to the device in explorer is not supported, although it should be coming soon. For now, at least there's a solution for Windows users who also want to keep their iPhones and iTouches locked - even if it's still proprietary.
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Alex M said 4:23PM on 3-04-2008
I thought most linux users by now would have unlocked their iPods or otherwise use any other mp3 player.
But it's good to know Wine keeps improving.
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capicke2 said 4:56PM on 3-21-2008
How about the idea of downloading the songs from iTunes using wine...then using YamiPod to manage and sync the songs into the iPod?
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