ITunes Alternative

[InvisibleSniper]

Does anyone konw of a substitution for I-tunes, since I-tunes can't be run on Linux Debian?

[techieMoe]

Are you looking for strictly the music management style of iTunes or also iPod compatibility? The closest I've found to the style would be either amaroK or LSongs, or perhaps banshee. I've had only marginal success getting any of these to sync with my iPod though, and it really depends on whether your individual distribution has iPod support. SuSE for instance was the distro that gave me the most success with my iPod nano.

[bigtomrodney]

I believe both Amarok and Banshee have just had their iPod sync capability improved greatly. I'm an amarok person myself but a lot of people who use iTunes claim Banshee is quite good as a drop in substitute.

[antidrugue]

You can even look here, if you want an extended list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari..._media_players

As said earlier, the most popular are Amarok, Rhythmbox and Banshee.

[InvisibleSniper]

Does Amarok open apple streaming media when it is embeded in a web page, like with apple media player?

And also I can not get my ipod to get sync with Amarok... the ipod screen says "Do Not Disconnect".

Any Help Appreciated
Thanks Again

[dravenloft]

Does Amarok open apple streaming media when it is embeded in a web page, like with apple media player?

I couldn't say about Amarok, I've installed it then never gotten around to trying it out. I do know vlc will play the apple streams. Embedded ones I'm not sure, I think there's a mozilla/firefox plugin for it.

[bryansmith]

I just installed Suse 10.1 and Banshee. My iPod has had complete success - it has worked like a charm and will mount/unmount properly. I was able to play songs from it well with little to no delay and skipping. The interface, while different, will feel familiar to iTunes users. As for the music store, you're out of luck.

Bryan

[InvisibleSniper]

I have just been trying to find out a way to install banshee on my debian box... but I can't seem to find an easy way. Basically I have spent about 2hrs trying to work out how I can do it, only to come up with the sollution of installing about 50packages manually and building them manualy.

This is the output from the terminal window:
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0) but 1.8.0-4 is to be installed
           Depends: libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.13.0) but 2.8.1-2 is to be installed
           Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 is to be installed           Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.0.2-2) but it is not installable
           Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.61) but it is not installable
           Depends: libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.61) but it is not installable
           Depends: libgconf2-4 (>= 2.13.5) but 2.8.1-6 is to be installed
           Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.10.0) but 2.6.4-1 is to be installed
           Depends: libgnome-desktop-2 (>= 2.11.1) but 2.8.3-2 is to be installed
           Depends: libgnome-keyring0 (>= 0.4.3) but 0.4.2-1 is to be installed
           Depends: libgnome2-0 (>= 2.14.1) but 2.8.1-2 is to be installed
           Depends: libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.11.1) but 2.8.0-1 is to be installed           Depends: libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.13.92) but 2.8.4-4 is to be installed
           Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.5) but it is not installable
           Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0) but 2.6.4-3.1 is to be installed
           Depends: libhal1 (>= 0.5) but it is not installable
           Depends: libnautilus-burn2 but it is not installable
           Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.12.1) but 1.8.1-1 is to be installed
           Depends: libxfixes3 but it is not installable
           Depends: libxinerama1 but it is not installable
           Depends: libxml2 (>= 2.6.24) but 2.6.16-7 is to be installed
           Depends: mono-runtime (>= 1.0) but it is not installable
           Depends: libdbus-1-cil (>= 0.61) but it is not installable
           Depends: libgconf2.0-cil (>= 2.7.90) but it is not installable
           Depends: libglade2.0-cil (>= 2.7.90) but it is not installable
           Depends: libglib2.0-cil (>= 2.7.90) but it is not installable
           Depends: libgnome2.0-cil (>= 2.7.90) but it is not installable
           Depends: libgtk2.0-cil (>= 2.7.90) but it is not installable
           Depends: libipoddevice0 (>= 0.4.5) but it is not installable
           Depends: libmono-corlib1.0-cil (>= 1.0) but it is not installable
           Depends: libmono-security1.0-cil (>= 1.0) but it is not installable
           Depends: libmono-sqlite1.0-cil (>= 1.0) but it is not installable
           Depends: libmono-system-data1.0-cil (>= 1.0) but it is not installable
           Depends: libmono-system-web1.0-cil (>= 1.0) but it is not installable           Depends: libmono-system1.0-cil (>= 1.0) but it is not installable
           Depends: libmono1.0-cil (>= 1.1.13.6) but it is not installable
           Depends: libmusicbrainz4c2a (>= 2.1.2) but it is not installable
           Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2) but 2.8.1-6 is to be installed
           Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base but it is not installable
           Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good but it is not installable
           Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly but it is not installable
           Depends: gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs but it is not installable
  zlib1g: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) but 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 is to be installed

Anyone Know Of An Easeir Way? Isn't there some command that can tell apt-get install to get the rest of the needed packages automatically or do I have to get each one manually?

Thanks Again In Advance.

[antidrugue]

Which version of Debian are you using?

What is the exact banshee package you are trying to install?

[Vergil83]

I bet the problem is that InvisibleSniper is trying to install the sid version of banshee (that is the only version debian has currently). The problem is banshee is rather young.