iTunes 4.0 Forum

How soon until IPod support is working? Is this even planned?

We're working on it; it actually works, after a fashion.

The problem is getting it to work in Linux properly is
tricky, so we're probably going to need help from Linux
distros before it works as cleanly as we would like.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Jeremy, what is your "after a fasion"? I am more than willing to help with this. In fact I have Audible v3.5 working (not without its issues in CXO 3 latest) and can now import the audible files into Itunes, but would love to test out transferring to the ipod. Maybe I can help kill 2 or 3 birds with you. My email is tony at ournuthut dot net

Rather disappointing to see that the support for iTunes is far away from the press release stating it should work. Especiially since iTunes support was my reason for buying CrossOver ☹️

Maybee an idea to get a message our stating what we can expect - and when...

We just built beta3. Unfortunately we ran into a number of really serious regression with other applications such as Quicken and Office so we where unable to move forward as fast as we would have liked.

However the good news is that we think we fixed those in beta3. So we are looking at having 3.1 released in 2 weeks or so.

-aric

The problem is mostly that we lack the infrastructure Linux-side to make it automatic. It involves a lot of fiddling to set up the permissions on USB devices correctly etc. There is a HOWTO in the tips/tricks section if you're curious.

Once HAL [ + SELinux ] is deployed widely we can integrate that with Wine, and it should make setup simply a matter of plugging the device in.

Any chance to download a recent beta?
Latest avail seems to be alpha4

I just purchased 3.0.1 a few days ago, and I am mostly very happy 😊 I can even hack in VBA on Linux (although the VB userform builder has some drawing glitches...)
I am worried by your statement though. I am not very familiar with Wine, I only started using it with the purchase of your product. However, it seems to me that if hacking some part of the code to increase compatibility with one application seriously breaks the compatibility of other previously working ones, then this code is highly brittle. Any comments on how robust this codebase is?

Seems like the two weeks are well done... any news? or is a beta soon avail?

Yes, regressions are a continuing problem. Unfortunately this is unavoidable, it's simply the nature of what we're doing.

If it makes you feel better (probably not) Microsoft has the same problems: whenever the change or upgrade Windows internals things break. They have large dedicated app compat teams who simply spend all day installing stuff and finding out if they still work.

We just released rc1. We're still improving iTunes significantly ....