iTunes Music/Fairplay

[Agarax]

Hey All,

I'm finally making the switch to Linux, but have one big snag. A good part of my music was bought on ITMS, and iTunes doesn't work in Wine anymore.

I always thought that VLC was able to play the fairplay music, but when I installed it on Ubuntu 7.10 my mp3s would play fine, but all of the mp4s from Apple were silent. I tried ones I just bought and ones I bought a few years ago.

Anyone know what's up?

I remember at one point being able to play mp4s in VLC on my Window's box.

I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 and VLC version 0.8.6c.

Thanks for your help!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

DRMs...

[Agarax]

I thought VLC worked around the DRMs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay_% ... #QTFairUse

"The second time around, Johansen reverse engineered the encryption technique used in FairPlay and created an algorithm to completely remove the encryption without re-encoding the encrypted AAC stream. This method is currently used by VLC media player in order to play FairPlay-protected tracks."

I hate having to work it this way, but Apple broke iTunes in Wine. My previous Linux boxes I did it that way, though I had to buy the tracks on my Windows partition.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

The thing is there are many DRMs in iTunes and VLC doesn't read all versions.

[Mr. Mac]

The thing is there are many DRMs in iTunes and VLC doesn't read all versions.

Which versions of iTunes DRM can VLC read? Can it read FairPlay version 3?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

no, the first versions.