Written by Tom Wickline

Tuesday, 02 October 2007 03:01

About iTunes 7.3

iTunes is an audio player for playing and organizing digital music files, and purchasing digital music files in the FairPlay digital rights management format. The iTunes Music Store is the component of iTunes through which users can purchase digital music files from within iTunes.

Users are able to organize their music into playlists, edit file information, record compact discs, copy files to a digital audio player, purchase music on the Internet through its built-in music store, run a visualizer to display graphical effects in time to the music as well as encode music into a number of different audio formats.

iTunes 7.3 includes Quicktime Player 7.1.6 and support for Apple's iPhone.

Instalation :

This is from a clean Wine configuration directory and all screenshots are from a virtual desktop of 1024x768.

Wine first run :

tom@tom:~$ winecfg
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/tom/.wine'...
fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported.
wine: '/home/tom/.wine' created successfully.

Now select the Audio tab and set your audio driver, I use OSS and set Hardware Acceleration to "Emulation" If you want to run Wine in a virtual desktop now is a good time to select the Graphics tab and set the size of your preference. You will also want to set richedit20.dll & richedit32.dll as navite (Windows)

Now install the richedit30 update, make sure you go to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 and rename richedit20.dll and richedit32.dll to *.bak or the richedit update wont work.

Go here iTunes 7.3 Download to download iTunes.

$wine iTunesSetup.exe

I have had the setup to quit with a error and also run to completion, This is a bug in Wine and sometimes the installer runs to completion and sometimes it doesn't. If it exits on a error, don't be alarmed just re-run the installer a second time and it should complete the install.

iTunes 7.3 and QuickTime 7.1.6 should now be installed, one of the first things you might want to do is run the QuickTime Player and go to the player preferences under Advanced > Video set the player to use (GDI only) this will work around the screen being painted black.

iTunes 7.3 first run

tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/iTunes
tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/iTunes$ wine itunes.exe
fixme:midi:OSS_MidiInit Synthesizer supports MIDI in. Not yet supported.
fixme:htmlhelp:HtmlHelpW HH case HH_INITIALIZE not handled.