My iTunes dilemma...

For a long while I've been an iTunes user on Windows. I was hooked and purchased all kinds of media - musics, shows and movies.
After about a year of coping with Vista and XP I had to resort to linux and it's been a dream for all my apps - except for iTunes. My thousands of dollars worth of media is completely unusable.
It's been more than a year now - I havn't touched my iPod 30g or my media. I tried wine and my old windows in a VM and they are both unbearably slow. And I think there is way too much complexity in any type of conversion as I have so much and so many types of media. Will Apple ever give some means for my platform to at least play my music?
Thanks for any help you can offer in resolving my dilemma. Please don't respond if you wish to flame or troll.

You will not be able to play DRM protected music from the iTunes Store on your Linuz machine, however you are allowed to burn it to an audio CD which can be used as any other audio CD.
There are various iPod managers that will work with Linux and play non DRM protected tracks, see the list here which includes which operation system they work with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparisonof_iPodmanagers

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Good day all and greetings from Malta (EU),
I have what seems to be the need for an "impossible" solution. Let me explain my dilemma.
I have never wanted to use the new versions of iTunes past 10.7 for ONLY ONE simple reason that the developers of iTunes have decided to eliminate.
I am a digital dj - I use iTunes as my cataloging system for all the tracks I play. I am the kind of person that likes to prepare as much as possible before I play. Up till 10.7 there was an option to open MULTIPLE playlist windows. This was very important to me because that would mean practically that how ever the mood moved on the dance floor I was able to just choose from the open playlist windows without having to spend needless time searching for them while playing (which can be a big distraction)
I have recently purchased my FIRST Mac (17" MacbookPro) and I have Yosemite running on it. I have followed tutorials to downgrade iTunes (using Pacifier & AppZapper) to 10.7 in order to get the only one feature I needed but was not available in future upgrades.
I have a few problems. When I connect my iPhone it is not recognised and when I use the finder window I constantly get error messages popping up.
So here's the thing. I DON'T mind re-installing the updated version of iTunes to make the OS run properly and to connect my iPhone but I can't do this without the old version as well.
Is there a way to be able to rename the 10.7 version of iTunes so I can continue using that and it's own library AND also be able to install the latest iTunes so I can eliminate my problems and continue using the 10.7 version. I can point out that the updated version does not need to have the same library... I'd ONLY need that to eliminate the error messages & be able to connect my devices.
can ANYONE PLEASE PLEASE help me with this dilemma? I searched "high and low" on Google and in the Apple Support Forum but I have failed to find an solution....
Thanks and I am sooooo looking forward to someone helping me as soon as possible.
And Happy Holidays EVERYONE!!!
Chris Brown

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Suggestions?

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My app store and itunes apps have disappeared from my iphone.
I suspect Apple is responsible and is trying to force an upgrade. Does anyone know if this is true? because if it is we should object to this.
The upgrade on my ipad was such a horrible experience, I don't want to do it to upgrade my iphone. (Upgrades have been a nightmare every since the itunes interface was changed. In my view, iTunes is the now one of the most unintuitive interface imaginable - [bar windows 8]. Prior to that it was generally easy to do upgrades and backups without hiccups and the interface was great. Now its too obscure to find what you need to do.)
I have been an Apple fan since the original Apple computer - but am not very happy with recent changes that affect use-ability and reliability.
General grumbling aside - every time you upgrade, you have to reload all of your apps; and a lot of favorite apps won't work with the new system. That's another reason I don't want to upgrade.
Without the App and iTunes application - you can't selectively update the apps you want to update or even access your music.
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1. Does anyone know why the Apps and iTunes apps disappeared? (I'm not the only one complaining about this.)
2. Does anyone know how to get them back without having to effectively erase your phone and start over?
3. Does anyone know how to get iTunes on the computer to recognize your iiphone when the itunes app disappeared off it?
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DD

Hi Dahveed,
Thank you again for the advice. But, rebooting did not help.
In the end I was forced to upgrade.
I am relieved to say that this upgrade went very smoothly compared to other upgrades.
I did not have to re-download apps and they appear to be in their normal folders - except a new app page 2 (after the primary page) appeared containing only the missing apps. This was not there before.
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The answer to this problem unfortunately appears to be to upgrade the system.
In my experience the Apps (which presumably are removed to force the user into an upgrade) then re-appear.
On the positive side, at least on this occasion, it did not turn out to be a nightmare make work project.

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HT203167 lost some music and cannot find it on my computer. tried to repurchase from itunes store and won't let me stating that it was previously purchased, yet doesn't give an option to redownload. help anyone?

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I cannot burn purchased tunes on a blank disc because of the infamous "error 4310". Countless ITunes customers are frustrated that there are no "free" answers for this dilemma. Unfortunately, the "support" that is so highly promoted and encouraged is merely community members venting their frustrations.
ITuines this is not at all professional on your part.

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If the email hasn't arrived after a few hours and isn't in a spam filter, you need to ask Apple to reset your security questions; this can be done by phoning AppleCare and asking for the Account Security team, or clicking here and picking a method, or if your country isn't listed in either article, filling out and submitting this form.
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ITunes Library Dilemma

Okay I have a small situation I would like to resolve....here's the 411 on what happened:
My 4 year old Dell laptop is running low on space so I recently purchased an external 500 GB hard drive. I did it primarily to copy all of my important information from my laptop in case in crashes (since PC's tend to do that). Prior to the purchase, my iTunes library consisted completely of mp3's I had previously collected. The bulk of my music was still on CD's.
After making the purchase I decided I could keep all of my music in one place by importing all of my CD's into iTunes. First, I copied my music folder from my laptop onto my external hard drive manually through Windows Explorer.
Then, I changed the default music folder in iTunes from C:\My Music to G:\My Music (G: is the external hard drive).
I then began importing all of my CD's (which took quite a bit of time), which ended up in G:\My Music. I was happy that I could now listen to all of my music in one place without pulling out CD's.
I then proceeded to edit album and artist information about all of the previously collected mp3's, *not knowing that I was editing the files on my laptop and not on my external hard drive.*
So here's the situation:
The C:\My Music folder contains all of the mp3's I collected prior to importing my CD's WITH major updates to aritst and album information. This entire folder is still mapped to my iTunes library.
The G:\My Music folder contains 1) all of my imported CD's and 2) all of the mp3's I collected prior to importing my CD's WITHOUT major updates. Only the imported CD files are mapped to my iTunes library. The mp3's without updates are not.
I would like to move C:\My Music into G:\My Music, essentially replacing all of the previously collected mp3's WITHOUT UPDATES with the mp3's WITH updates (and freeing up a considerable amount of space on my laptop). Is there a way to do this in iTunes while still preserving all of the playlists, or I do I have to re-create everything manually?
Hopefully that made sense.....I would appreciate any advice anyone can lend!

You should be able to use the "consolidate library" command to accomplish this.
First, double-check preferences:
On the Advanced tab, make sure iTunes is directed to your external hard drive, and that the option to "copy files to iTunes music folder location when adding to library" is selected. Click OK
Click your File menu, put your mouse over Library and choose Consolidate Library.
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Hope this is helpful
CG

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When you select the iPod in iTunes, you see the iPod's Summary screen on the main part of the iTunes window. There is a checkbox there for Sync only checked songs. Did you check that checkbox? If you want iTunes to ignore the songs you unchecked when syncing your iPod, that setting needs to be enabled. If you change that setting, you'll see the the Sync botton has changed to Apply. Click Apply.
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I may have found the reason as to why the album art isn't working here are the steps i used to solve this!
1. Locate the music within the hard drive.
2. Select every single music you want to add an art to, Either ctrl ( or command) + click the multiple files, or Crtl (or command) A to select all
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5. save
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How to share one iTunes library with multiple computers AND Apple TV? Help?

It seems like my dilemma may not be easily solved. Hopefully it isn't as complicated as I think it will be. Here's the situation:
My wife hates that, in order to see or do anything with the images she takes, I need to have iPhoto open on my computer (Mac Pro), and she then has to connect to it over sharing.
By the same token, I don't like that she buys iTunes content on her MacBook, which is sometimes a duplicate of content I already have. Now that the App Store is out, that is going to start getting really expensive.
So instead, I want us to be able to:
1) Have ONE iTunes library on the network, and ONE iPhoto library. Both of these would be accessible to any computer on the network. When you launch iTunes, you would get all the media that is in that library.
2) Both be able to access iTunes at the same time to listen to / watch content.
3) Both be able to purchase iTunes content, and when it it purchased, it updates that single library. If I buy a song, the next time my wife fires up iTunes, that song is there for her to listen to.
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Possible?!

I'm sort of in the same boat. We've got an iMac with separate User Accounts set up and are currently sharing the same iTunes and iPhoto libraries along with streaming them to our Apple TV.
Right now I'm the only one with an iPod, however she'll be getting one in a couple of weeks.
We also just picked up a MacBook yesterday and I'd like to be able to sync certain libraries like iTunes and iPhoto so that no content gets duplicated on either the iMac or MacBook and so that we both have access to the current libraries for each program on our iPods and AppleTV.
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