HOWTO: GTK iTunes Store Application

[idn]

This tutorial is for anyone who wants to access the iTunes music store on their breezy install, but doesn't want to go through the bother of installing iTunes through wine or crossover linux.

Features:

• Preview songs
• Signup for an account
• Buy songs and albums
• Redownload songs that you bought with SharpMusique
• Redeem Pepsi caps
• Redeem gift certificates

Dependencies:

• .NET runtime
• Gtk#

Get the deb from this location:

http://nanocrew.net/sw/sharpmusique/...1.0-1_i386.deb

Then:

sudo dpkg -i sharpmusique_1.0-1_i386.deb

Goto Applications -> Sound and Video -> Sharp Musique iTMS Client

You do not need an account to preview the songs.

To buy the songs you will need to create an account, to do this you will need to provide you credit card details

* This is done at your own risk! *

Or you can sign in with your existing account. I signed up over sharpmusique and it worked fine, I got an email through from iTunes confirming my account.

This is my first how to so please be kind


Links of interest:

• http://nanocrew.net/software/sharpmusique/

[majikstreet]

I never knew there was such a thing!

I can't say that many of us pay for music though

[idn]

Well, hopefully this will be a wake up call for the music industry. Its been around for a while though, I only found out about it today.

I just downloaded my first, it plays fine in Totem, although the filename was a little bit screwed up.

[wellery]

do you also get this error when you try to view an album:

Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from
source type to destination type.
in <0x00024> SharpMusique:ViewAlbumThread (System.Object State)
in (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void_object
(object)

[Manny C]

SharpMusique has some odd quirks. In particular the download available on the nanocrew website does not correctly write the filename of the m4a file. JJ does not have time to update the program at the moment.

Following the hacks in the comments of the JJ's blog, I have hacked up a deb that correctly writes the filenames.

1. Download the source package from nanocrew and download and install JJ's snd123 package:

 sudo dpkg -i snd123_1.0.2-1_i386.deb

2. Unpack the SharpMusique archive:

 tar zxvf sharpmusique-1.0.tar.gz

3. Install the mono C# compiler and other assorted packages:

 sudo apt-get install mono-mcs binfmt-support libglade2-0 mono-common mono-jit libglade2.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil mono-classlib-1.0 libgtk1.2-common libglib1.2 libgtk1.2 liba52-0.7.4 libaa1 libdvbpsi3 libtar liblircclient0 libwxgtk2.4-1 vlc wxvlc libvlc0-dev

4. Save/overwrite the SharpMusique.cs file in the folder sharpmusique-1.0/src folder with the file in the attached archive.
5. Copy the libvlc.so file from /usr/lib/snd123 to the sharpmusique/libvlc folder. Run the following command in the sharpmusique-1.0 folder

 ./configure --prefix=/opt && make

[Hattip: RAOF]
6. Then issue the following command:

 sudo checkinstall

When it asks you for a package description enter the following:

 SharpMusique for iTunes 6.0

Press enter twice. Then change the package information as per your preferences.

For some reason (I don't know why), you need to run sharpmusique with a strace prefix. Otherwise Sharpmusique hangs on login [Hattip: RAOF]

 strace sharpmusique

You may still get an error on logging in. Ignore this and login again (without exiting).

Hope this helps.

[wellery]

Thanks for all your work. I'll try it tonight.

[veloct]

SharpMusique has some odd quirks. In particular the download available on the nanocrew website does not correctly write the filename of the m4a file. JJ does not have time to update the program at the moment.

Following the hacks in the comments of the JJ's blog, I have hacked up a deb that correctly writes the filenames.

Find the file attached. Here are the installation instructions. First install the following packages:

 sudo apt-get install binfmt-support libglade2-0 mono-common mono-jit libglade2.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil mono-classlib-1.0

Then install the *.deb package that I have attached.

 sudo dpkg -i sharpmusique_1.0-1_i386_mannyc.deb

You may have trouble logging into your account every so often. I don't know why. If you experience difficulties, simply run sharpmusique prefixed with strace:

 strace sharpmusique

This will run heaps of code. Don't worry about that. You will then get a dialogue box advising of some Init error. Ignore it. Try logging in again and it should work.

I don't see a file.

[Manny C]

Check my revised How-To.

[angrykeyboarder]

Well, hopefully this will be a wake up call for the music industry. Its been around for a while though, I only found out about it today.

I just downloaded my first, it plays fine in Totem, although the filename was a little bit screwed up.

It began life as PyMusique and created quite a buzz in the tech media. It was brought to us in part, courtsey of "DVD Jon"

[dude2425]

Wouldn't it be possible to just apt-get install sharpmusique? I could have sworn I saw it in synaptic.