iTunes for Ubuntu?

[Spyderkid]

can someone tell me how to get iTunes for Ubuntu/Linux that actually works?

[Rubberman]

Run Windows in a virtual machine... Unfortunatly, iTunes only supports Windows and OSX. You are SOL with Linux - just another reason not to purchases hardware that is tethered to a vendor-specific service. You are at their mercy.

[thomasstambaugh]

There is a nice program out there called Floora that I use to put music on my ipod. I've liked that better than itunes. However, if you buy your music from itunes, I don't know how their drm works with floora. It's worth a try though. Also there are many other programs out there that can put music on your ipod so don't worry. It's not like itunes is a good music player anyway so you wont be missing much.

[techieMoe]

The April release of Ubuntu includes a service quite similar to the iTunes Music Store that's built into the Rhythmbox player. You can purchase and download DRM-free music from it and copy it over to various music-playing devices.

If however you want the actual iTunes Store and/or connectivity with all Apple music devices and phones, you're not going to get that on Linux right now.

Linux support of Apple products is spotty because Apple quite frankly doesn't want Linux users to be able to use their products. Older iPods generally work well, but with every new release Apple changes the encryption algorithms on the devices, making it harder on Linux developers to work with the hardware.