iTunes 9.0 Forum

Hi,

I upgraded my CrossOver to 9.0, yesterday, and installed iTunes. Music from HDD work and play. I managed to Authorise my computer at the second attempt.

The next thing to try is to see if my iPod Touch can be seen. I will test this tomorrow, and update the thread

regards,
Arif

Arif,
Did the connection to the iPod work?

Unfortunately that didn't work. May need to mount the ipod and make wine see the ipod as a drive. But further testing is still required.

I mounted the ipod using ifuse, and then created a link to the mounted FS in the dosdevices, but iTunes still didn't pick it up.

If I go to Edit->Preferences...

I can navigate through all the tabs, except when I go to "Devices", when iTunes hangs. I have a feeling Apple have a unique way of detecting the iPod device. Wine/Crossover needs to possibly emulate that somehow. What I know is that, when the devices tab is selected the "AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe" starts running, and that is what we need to diagnose to see what exactly it is looking for. Below is my "ps -ef" of the processes of the iTunes

arif      8871  8869  1 13:45 ?        00:00:12 C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe                                                              
arif      9111  8871  3 13:57 ?        00:00:00 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe --pipe \\.\pipe\30064729-16055809904184 --parentPipe                  
arif      9112  9111  1 13:57 ?        00:00:00 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\distnoted.exe

I have waited about 30 mins, "I think!!!", it the tab did appear in the end with no device list. It is absolutely slow while on this tab

If anyone has any suggestions, I am willing to try anything to get iTunes working, so that I can scrap my windows virtualbox VM

btw, I am running Ubuntu 9.10 2.6.31-20-generic i686, CrossOver 9.0.0

So looking into this even further....

I tried to diagnose connections, and this is what I got

Support Services:
* iPod support service is not running
* iTunes helper is not running
* Apple Mobile Device is not running

Ports:
* No USB ports found
* No fireWire (iEEE 1394) ports found.
* No iPhone or iPod found

I will continue to diagnose to see if I can try starting any of the support services

Edit

I can get the "Apple Mobile Device", and "iTunes Helper" running, but when I try running the iPod support service, I get "Module Not Found". I reckon, if we could get this service up and running, then the Wine/crossover developers may be able to get the USB ports detected.

I get an application error after install. Maybe I'm missing something?

Jeff Dickman wrote:

I get an application error after install. Maybe I'm missing
something?

Hi Jeff,

I tried iTunes 9.0.2, and I created a new bottle, using winxp as the template, specific for the iTunes, so that no other application would interfere with it. I have still to try and see if iTunes 9.0.3 would work.

I will try 9.0.3 soon, and see what I can find

I hope that helps

My Ipod nano 5th gen worked no problems, although it wasn't happy with my current sync, and wiped it clean, along with my games.
It also fails to use voiceover, but hey, I'm not blind. I don't care.

WINE also allowed WinAmp to detect my friends 4th gen nano.

Did my computer actually do something right for once?

Has anyone gotten this to work? I an most interested in whether or not I can sync up the contact/appointments.

WestJ wrote:

My Ipod nano 5th gen worked no problems, although it wasn't happy
with my current sync, and wiped it clean, along with my games.
It also fails to use voiceover, but hey, I'm not blind. I don't
care.

WINE also allowed WinAmp to detect my friends 4th gen nano.

Did my computer actually do something right for once?

Can you please post how you got it working (which bottle you use, etc)?

How come this has a gold medal? Who's got it working?
I was able to install it on my Ubuntu system but it installed with an error and it crashes randomly (and often).
I wasn't able to get the iTunes store to work. I was using iTunes 9.2 but I had similar problems with the previous version too (was it 9.1?)

Looks like Jude West has it working for his Ipod, It would be interesting how he got it working. I think there are a few people on this thread who would like to find out how he got it working.

Jude, Let us know

Hi,

I've yet to get iTunes 9.2.1.4 installed without errors. I create a bottle called iTunes9 under WixXP and run the iTunes install file I download from the iTunes web site. The installer ends with the message, "The installer encountered errors before iTunes could be configured. Your system has not been modified. To retry these operations at a later time, please run the installer again."

Has anyone been successful in resolving this issue?

Thanks

Kevin wrote:

Hi,

I've yet to get iTunes 9.2.1.4 installed without errors. I create a
bottle called iTunes9 under WixXP and run the iTunes install file I
download from the iTunes web site. The installer ends with the
message, "The installer encountered errors before iTunes could be
configured. Your system has not been modified. To retry these
operations at a later time, please run the installer again."

Has anyone been successful in resolving this issue?

Thanks

CrossOver 9.0.0:
neither have I, I just deleted my previous bottle on which 9.0.2 was working without the iPod sync.
Although when I press OK when the installation is finished, I can start iTunes, but then hangs, and then have to kill the PIDs manually.

Crossover 9.1.0beta3:
I have upgraded my crossover to beta, now I can start it up. I may test this further tonight.

Edit:

Crossover 9.1.0:
9.2.1.4 of iTunes I have the same error message as you do, but I can start it up and try playing mp3's, but that's all I can do with it. This is not the same what I saw with iTunes 9.0, May have to go back and try iTunes 9.0

I've just tested iTunes in a Windows XP and then a Vista bottle with Cross Over Professional 9.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x64 and received the same failed install message as Kevin.

AdamT wrote:

I've just tested iTunes in a Windows XP and then a Vista bottle with
Cross Over Professional 9.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x64 and received
the same failed install message as Kevin.

me too

Umm...

I beleive I just installed it under Windows Vista bottle, plugged my iPod in, and it just worked out of nowhere.

I haven't replied due to the fact that I wanted to do some further testing, but so far I haven't been able to replicate it, on mine nor anyone else's PC or Mac. I guess it was just a fluke. But it does seem strange, possibly it does work, but only when some strange Windows dependency is installed...

Try installing Winamp first to see if that works. If no go, then you may want to try installing a plethora of iPod tools. You may just get lucky and hit upon the right dependency.