Pymusique - iTunes music store for linux,

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

and without the DRM, it seems

http://fuware.nanocrew.net/pymusique/

I downloaded it, and installed it.
I needed to emerge twisted and mcrypt, and then build python-mcrypt by hand ( ./setup.py build and ./setup.py install) , and ran the pymusique install-script setup.py. Then you can run pymusique.

Cool stuff

All that's missing is an ebuild. I wonder how long this will keep working :?:

[edit] Found the original article here (in Dutch) .

Lord_BeeJee · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject:

Yup, just installed it myself in the same way and it works pretty good for such an early version. Let's hope Apple wont land a big hammer on them so they can keep on developing it.!

wzzrd · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 245

Might be a silly question, but where on earth does pymusique save my files??

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

wzzrd · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 245

Yeah I figured as much, but the prefs don't work here. I'm getting the funny feeling my setup isn't totally ok

john36 · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject:

Not quite working for me.
A screen opens up, and I think I can log in,
but when I start a search, it never comes back.
Nothing hangs or anything, its just that "Searching...."
appears (and stays) at the bottom of the screen and I never get any results

By the way, the screen is kinda bare, but maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

bakiller · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 16

I have the same problem...I can login correctly but when I go to do a search it sits their at searching... forever. Does anyone know if its just cause we are missing a package or did apple stop letting pymusique work?? Any help is great! Thanks A LOT!

john36 · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject:

I installed the windows version and got the same results.
(Under windows there are only 2 programs to install, so the risk of not having everything seems remote. However, under windows, you never can really tell)

My first search crashed the program.

I restarted, did another search, and it never completed.

Maybe I'll wait for 0.4.

slashdevslashtty · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:55 am Post subject:

ZDNET: iTunes hack disabled by Apple

:cry:

apache · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 60 Location: Austria

A little bit OT: Well, as you will need to use itunes 4.7 from now on, I have one question:

I heard from some users, that itunes 4.7 does not work under crossover 4.1, when they buy songs, itunes crashes but they got no song. Can anybody confirm this? I want to use itunes in the future but I will not buy a copy of crossover if I can't buy songs.

darkgamorck · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:04 pm Post subject:

Download the current CVS of PyMusique. It fixes the block. PyMusique was using the old iTunes 4.6 protocol. Apple "plugged" the hole by requiring that all of their users use iTunes 4.7 allowing them to disable that protocol. To do this:

svn checkout https://fuware.net/svn/pymusique/trunk pymusique-trunk
cd ./pymusique-trunk
./setup.py build
./setup.py install

Too bad for Apple, eh? The fact is that they will NEVER be able to plug the hole until they beginning applying DRM to files on the server side rather than the client side. Such a transition isn't going to be cheap either.

darkgamorck · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject:

A question for other pymusique users: Is there anyway to purchase an album through pymusique? I can't see any way to do this...

slashdevslashtty · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:20 am Post subject:

When I tried the fresh subversion code, ./setup.py build complained about not being able to import gconf (module not found). The solution is to emerge gnome-python.

wjholden · l33t Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 826 Location: Augusta, GA

Jon Johansen is my hero!!!

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

The site does not load for me at all. Maybe Apple killed it. heh

However, if Apple wants to solve this problem then they should release iTunes or a program to access the music store for Linux.

wjholden · l33t Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 826 Location: Augusta, GA

Actually Slashdot killed it: http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/03/23/0122224.shtml?tid=176&tid=141&tid=3

roELEo · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:54 am Post subject:

Damn /.!

williamvergara · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 47 Location: Germany

I have tryed all day to download the source but tha page is still down. Maybe someone should make an ebuild. Greetings!!

roELEo · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject:

Well, found a mirror here:
http://www.pyronecrophilia.com/content/pymusique/ (source of 0.4)

An ebuild of 0.3 can be found on buzilla:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84968

wjholden · l33t Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 826 Location: Augusta, GA

Does PyMusique allow you to share music over a LAN (the legal way)? Everyone in my dorm uses iTunes for this exact reason ('cept me -- you'll never get me away from my XMMS now!). Or, knowing that the protocol is open source, can I configure a daemon to headlessly share music over streaming?

stillbourne · n00b Joined: 29 Nov 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Denver, CO

will there be an ebuild for 0.4 in portage?
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slag · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

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wjholden · l33t Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 826 Location: Augusta, GA

ChojinDSL · l33t Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 784

Geez, that guy just cant stop can he? First decss now this. I hope he doesnt get into trouble because of this.

By the way, that zdnet article seems to have a bit of a tainted view. It calls pymusique "Underground Software" and claims that Jon released "DVD copying software". WTF!? It was a dvd player for linux.

I wonder if this little app would finally make linux mass marketable. hehehe... all those itunes fans switching to linux just so they can purchase drm-free music.