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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!

DRMs...

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.

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

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?

no, the first versions.