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Steven Côté wrote:
oooh, time to start googling! thanx for that!! Ive used rhythm alot for ipods etc, its just that the ubuntu one store is quite basic still... time for amazon!My son was quite happy with Ubuntu & OpenOffice until he got an iPod. Even then, he managed to run iTunes in a WinXP VMware box until an iTunes upgrade broke it. He now runs Win7 solely because of iTunes.It may be worth mentioning that if people are missing iTunes, then it's time to have another look at Banshee. It's the mono based multi-media player that's pretty much on feature parity with iTunes now. Historically, it's iPod support has been a bit pants, but they've just merged in libgpod support so it should be working 100% now. They've also recently integrated the Amazon mp3 store into the interface, so you have something that's actually superior to iTunes Store in my opinion (lower costs, no drm). The only catch is that all of these features are in the latest 1.75 developer release and it's not in most of the standard distro repositories yet. The stable version 1.8 should appear in the next round of distro releases though, so if people are avoiding linux just because of iTunes, then I heartily suggest you show them this.
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