| Christopher Barry on 14 Sep 2016 15:27:55 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] FOSS Alternative to ITunes |
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:48:56 -0400 Paul Walker <pjwalker76@gmail.com> wrote: >Yeah, I can and do just use the file browser to play music. I guess the >features that I use Itunes for are pretty limited - browse by artist, >browse by album (even this doesn't really work well on itunes), see the >album art and song names, player controls, build playlists. vlc does all of this. > >I also use itunes to browse my phone but this is a separate concern - >I'll probably continue to use it for this. vlc can do this too. >I just make sure that my outbound firewall doesn't let itunes send my >selfies to apple or whatever. > >On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:32 AM, George Zipperlen < >George.Zipperlen@mail.com> wrote: > >> Which aspect of iTunes do you need? It is one of those unfortunate >> monoliths with many overlapping not really compatible functions. In a >> manner quite opposite to the Unix software tools philosophy it has >> evolved from an mp3 player + file manager for external device (iPod, >> are they still around?) into bloatware dealing with smart phones, >> tablets, and the cloud, while also handling Digital Rights Management >> and an online marketplace. >> >> Media player: VLC Media Player with huge codec library. Open >> source, multi-platform. Highly recommended. >> >> Device browser: iPodDisk is the only open source tool I could >> find in a quick search. Haven’t tried it. I’ve played with i-FunBox >> (free, but not open source). Using it in sandboxed mode resulted in >> duplicated music tracks. I haven’t used it with ssh access to the >> iPhone. >> >> The flow that works best for me is to use command line or file >> browser to manage media files from other sources and players; import >> them into iTunes, and use iTunes to push to (i)devices. >> >> George Zipperlen >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Sep 13, 2016, at 6:35 PM, Paul Walker <pjwalker76@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Anyone know a good FOSS alternative to ITunes. It is honestly one >> > of my >> least favorite pieces of software of all time. Not to mention that >> it is always trying to call home, which I find tiresome. >> > >> > And not to stoke anyone's paranoia :evil grin: but I also >> > remember >> seeing a wikileaks post of a leaked promotional video from a >> security firm that featured itunes as the central part of a trojan >> horse scheme (if anyone has a link to the video please share - I'll >> dig deeper but a quick google search failed to turn it up) >> > >> > Anyway - recommendations appreciated. >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> _______________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >> http://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/ >> mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/ >> mailman/listinfo/plug >> -- Regards, Christopher ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug