“PyTunes,” iTunes, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off!
Apple has neglected the Linux market, refusing (at least so far) to produce an iTunes Music Store client for penguinistas. So, in true form, the open source community has taken matters into it own hands. Jon Johansen (of DeCSS fame) and friends have created PyMusique, an interface to the iTunes store written in Python. The application allows you to preview and purchase songs like the standard iTunes software, but PyMusique lets you re-download purchased songs and strip Apple’s digital rights management (DRM) protections.
Great news, right? Not so fast. It’s likely that PyMusique will prompt an unfavorable response from Apple. Apple and PyMusique have already gone a few rounds, each countering the other’s moves. As the magazine goes to press though, PyMusique has the upper hand.
Even if PyMusique ultimately fails, it’s a step in the right direction. Hopefully, Apple will respond with its own official client. In the mean time, though, download PyMusique from http://fuware.nanocrew.net/pymusique/.
ABE is based entirely on the open source version and contains no new features. The company performed extensive testing to focus on stability, real world performance, and out-of-the-box setup. As a result, some unstable and unnecessary features were actually removed. The release is geared…
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