How to Download iTunes in Ubuntu Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 176 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. How to Install iTunes on Ubuntu Linux: If you are new to Linux and have been using iTunes for managing your iPod, iPhone, or iPad, you may find it frustrating that there is still no native support for iTunes on Linux. Aug 29, 2019 iTunes is a media player developed by Apple Inc, that allows you to download, organize, and play media on your system as well as sync it to other devices. ITunes is available for downloading and using on Windows and Mac, but it is yet not available in Ubuntu or any other Linux distributions. Unity has largely eliminated the ease-of-use issues that dogged novice Linux users for years, but the problem of replacing your familiar software applications remains. Many mainstream programs such as iTunes aren't available for Linux, so you can't simply download a Linux version. Instead, you'll need to find a workaround.
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I've tried different ways to install iTunes, but to no avail. I tried with Wine, but it didn't work. Is it possible to have iTunes on Ubuntu?
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You can try using PlayOnLinux.
PlayOnLinux is a graphical tool supplementing Wine.
To install PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu follow the below steps:
Add playonlinux repository and install it
In case you get an error, do this else skip to next
Now run it
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These solutions are in more detail and have screenshots here: http://web.archive.org/web/20150511192215/http://www.ubuntuka.com/itunes-ubuntu-linux
It is possible to run iTunes using Wine but you may have to download an older version and certain things will not work however these steps should allow you to at least get the program up and running:
The second and less popular way of getting iTunes running is by using a Virtualbox, and this way all of the features are available. To do so follow the steps provided here:
Another way to keep iTunes in your life is dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu.
And these are some alternatives to iTunes that work great in Ubuntu
It provides powerful and easy music browser, can sort/search music of almost all known formats including streaming audio, can play and rip CDs and DVDs. One of the most important features of Rhythmbox is iPod support meaning e.g. I can connect my favourite ipod classic 160GB and transfer music to it without itunes at all. Developers say that Rhythmbox was inspired by Apple’s itunes. I believe them.
Currently this is the most powerful music engine available for Ubuntu and Linux on the whole. Amarok makes it possible to transfer files to iPod and other mp3 players, to buy legal music from Magnatune (www.Magnatune.com) store, to create dynamic playlists, to import itunes music database and much-much more. Amarok was designed for KDE (while Ubuntu runs Gnome) desktop manager so it requires a lot of dependencies when you install it — be prepared to download 200 MB of staff to get Amarok installed.
Buy legal music in Ubuntu without itunes
There are two major alternatives to iTunes Music Store in Ubuntu which can be used in the same way — Jamendo, Magnatune. Ubuntu applications Rhythmbox, Banshee, Amarok and Exaile supports mentioned music stores and make it possible to navigate the music store and buy the music as easily as in itunes music store. Also there are a lot of music stores like Amazon which makes it possible to preview and buy music using any browser like Firefox, Opera or Chromimum which are supported by Ubuntu.
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tl;dr:
Tunesviewer: Lightweight, easy-to-use app for university podcast access.
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I might be a little bit late, and this solution does not provide all iTunes functionalities but its enough for streaming/downloading podcasts and iTunesU content.
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You don't need to install the repo to get PlayOnLinux, as the standard repos contain it. It can be found by using the following command:
You will also need to do install kraxor
curl and 7zip as mentioned above:
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Alternatively, if you can't get Itunes stable on your desktop, you can try a native approach. Such as the libimobiledevice-dev. Last time since I tried it, was when I had the Iphone 3. It did work for me then. And the status of their features has only gone greener since then. Development is still on going:
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17.10.2014: usbmuxd-1.1.0.tar.bz2 has been officially released.
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Iphone support:
Tested with iPod Touch 1G/2G/3G/4G/5G, iPhone 1G/2G/3G/3GS/4/4S/5/5C/5S/6/6+, iPad 1/2/3/4/Mini/Mini 3/Air/Air 2 and Apple TV 2G/3G running up to firmware 8.1.2 on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Install it like so:
Reboot your system and you will be able to do with it whatever you want, using file-managers and Media Players.can read.
Reference:
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MIGRATE YOUR ITUNE FOLDER instead of installing iTunes on Ubuntu. Use banshee instead. Just wanted to post a follow up to what I said above:
Please note that I just tested this and it works
Copy your iTunes folder from it's location in Windows (under My Music) to an external HDD or USB Thumb drive.
After you have Ubuntu installed you need to install Banshee because 12.04 comes with Rhythm Box by default. In my case I also installed ALL of the (install banshee from the software center first) and then install all the Banshee add-on's listed under Banshee in the Ubuntu Software Center. You also should install (from the Software Center) the Ubuntu Restricted Codecs (it's called UBUNTU RESTRICTED EXTRAS).
OK after all that is done go ahead and fire up Banshee and select (from the top) EDIT then under that select PREFERENCES
Checkmark the option called, 'Copy Files to media folders when importing'. The only other thing I checkmarked on this page was the 'Update file and folder names' (everything else is optional)
After you do that select (from the top) MEDIA then under that select IMPORT MEDIA
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Now change the selection to read, 'iTunes Media Player'
It will now let you browse to your iTunes folder and select the XML file. The file is under the iTunes folder (it's easy to find). Select it and click 'open' and then 'import'
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Banshee will now add the iTunes songs to itself BUT (and this is the important part) it will also copy all your music to your Ubuntu MUSIC folder.
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After it is done your music is in your Ubuntu MUSIC folder and you can continue to use Banshee or use Rhythm Box or any other Linux based music player.
Hope this helps!
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Work-around (Ubuntu 16.04 at time of writing): Use built-in RDP (Remmina) with audio enabled. I'm listening to my iTunes Home Server now..
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