Wine Reviews
iTunes 7.3 on Linux with Wine Print
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.















About iTunes :



iTunes Music :



iTunes Radio :



iTunes Store :









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maly 2008-09-08 01:57:59
hi there I've done all process of installation and config. Now my question is, is that iTunes under
wine will be able to synchronize my iPod or iPhone with music added to this program? If yes then I
would like to know how to do that. thanks anyway for this guide was very helpfull
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richedit update
Preston 2008-09-26 13:47:40
how does one install a richedit30 update?
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How about 8.0
Roger Moore 2008-09-26 16:51:21
Is there any reason this same provcess won't work with iTunes 8??
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burn to CD?
mike 2008-09-29 20:09:32
Anyone had any luck configuring itunes to burn to a CD?
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Also a note
mike 2008-09-29 20:15:38
Just to clarify, a few points.

1) You set up the riched20/32 (native) windows using winecfg and
clicking onthe libraries tab. Click on the box with the triangle and find the riched* files and
then add them.

2) You want to move your original richedit*.dll files to riched.bak before you
install riched30 (which is done using the command: wine riched30.exe). Don't move the new
richedit*.dll files that are created after running riched30.exe
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OK, its installed and runs, but my iphone doesnt s
Gerry 2008-10-01 10:22:20
Have you been able to get it recognize an iphone or ipod????
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dual boot
Marysia 2008-10-29 10:05:56
I'm running a dual boot ubuntu and win xp, I already have all the windows programs installed, how do
I get wine to use them? When I tell it where the applications are it just deletes them again when I
close the config window.
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help?! please =(
rob 2008-11-15 10:35:36
Right, I've installed iTunes 7.3 with this guide and it all works, until I try run iTunes. It shows
up with an error box saying that it cannot configure my CD/DVD Drivers so it won't recognize when a
CD or DVD is inserted. I'm not bothered about that bit as i don't use them drives much, not with
iTunes, so i click 'ok' and it loads iTunes, but it freezes and doesn't respond the second it
loads.. any help?
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No Sound
GARRY 2008-11-16 04:07:07
Hi I managed to get iTunes installed, however, when I select an album to listen to nothing seems to
happen. There is no track progress and no sound.... Has anyone any idea why?
Many thanks
Garry
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re: Also a note
Anonymous 2008-11-19 00:38:34
mike wrote:
Just to clarify, a few points.

2) You want to move your original richedit*.dll files
to riched.bak before you install riched30 (which is done using the command: wine
riched30.exe). Don't move the new richedit*.dll files that are created after running
riched30.exe


Hello, riched30.exe is not found can it be downloaded?

[alexs@alexs-linux
drive_c]$ find /home/alexs/.wine/
-name rich*
/home/alexs/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/r iched20.old
/home/alexs/.wine/dri
ve_c/windows/syst em32/riched32.old
[alexs@alexs-linux drive_c]$ 


Alex
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