ITUNES with linux

Hello there,
i use a macbook pro and, of course, my ipod and my music (downloaded by itunes), work very well
but i have also a desktop computer with 5.1 sound system but the problem is, this computer uses SUSE linux, is there a way to use my downloaded itunes music on my linux computer? exists a ITUNES for linux? or is there a plugin for the linux players like AMAROK???
thanks for your help
greetings from germany

You can play the music if you remove the DRM first, but I am not going to go into detail on that because you are not supposed to remove the DRM. Do some googling and you will find the answer

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I'm really not phased about the ability to import and play music as there are many alternatives, but I do want to continue to use the iTunes Store and Sync my devices.
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Been there, done that! And when I complained about their incompetance to make spare parts for their hand held products (iphones,ipods), I got a reply,but now when I emailed them because I can't find a version of itunes that runs on linux at their website, I got no answer.
They can't say that it is too hard or too time consuming, just because you should really just compile it for another unix kernel and write the libraries that it needs, or just use the existing ones. MacOS even uses X, so you should just make two skins for them in gtk and one for KDE.
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But even still, you haven't ported it yet, even if that would/is be profitable. I've heard that when you people at apple had some financial difficulties, some particular Bill offered you an offer you couldn't resist. Many people think that's why you now use intel's processors, just because this particular Bill isn't friends with IBM. That actually makes me more willing not to buy you're hardware, because now I am paying for something extra just to run an OS, that I have to pay for exclusively. When you had the ppcs, I felt different, just because then I would have a ppc, rather than an x86, and that would make me feel different. Now I pay for the design and the exclusive compatibility, which *****.
Looks like the iphone is going to be the last product of apple I'll ever buy from you greedy suck-up people, unless you port it to linux and stop kissing the particular bill's butt.
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