VirtualBox and iTunes

[stan]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:44:25PM -0500, Henry Dubb wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:44 AM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:36, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > > I have a iPhone, and in order to load muusic on it, I need to run iTunes.
> > I
> > > do not have any Windows (or for that matter Mac) computers. I figured I
> > > could get this done using VirtualBox, and an XP image, but every time I
> > > strat iTunes in a VirtualBox XP instance. I get a Windows "program crash"
> > > message.
> > >
> > > Has anyone made this work?
> >
> 
> No, this is partly because of ITunes spying. I can't remember the message
> now but it had to do with Itunes verifying my computer.
> 
> But the bigger question is why not use Ubuntu 10.04. I know it works out of
> the box in Mint 9 rc.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4arUsEmj54
> 

This does seem to work. Congratulations to all the good people who continue
to deelop these woderful open source tools! The las time I tried this it
did not work, so clearly they have made great strides in making things work
well for those of us that prefer to live a M$ free life.

One question though. I am an old comand line person, so gUI tools are
sometimes not intuitive to me. How can I use Ry> > Cheers
thmBox to copy music files from directories on my ard drive to the iPhone?
I looked at the help pages, and they assume that I know more about GUI type
stuff than I do obviously.
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