[millerg]

I am considering moving from my Mac based xbmc to linux to improve the video quality. It currently works OK but I often notice slight flicker or redraw issues. My goal is a media center that plays video, music from my iTunes library and photos from my iPhoto library.

Has anyone tried the itunes python script in linux? I see that others have had mixed success in osx and windows.

I know that I could simply access the music files. It is the playlists and smart playlists that I really want.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Greg

[outleradam]

My understanding is that the format which is used for the itunes script was no longer supported after iTunes7. I was not able to get it working and I did some research to find that. Then I updated the wiki about iTunes support.

[millerg]

I don't mean DAAP as that stopped working a while ago. There are plugins that are used in OSX and windows here:

http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-addons/

and some discussion here:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=37574

I wanted to know if anyone has tried them in linux.

Looks like I may be the first...

Greg

[millerg]

Before I try it does anyone know what to put in the "platform =" portion of the code? On mac it is "OS X", Windows is "win32" on linux I would assume that it would be "linux" or something similar.

Greg

[whittaker007]

Hi Greg, did you have any luck with that?

I want to try the same thing on my Ubuntu box using iTunes running in a XP VM. I installed the OS X iTunes plugin for XBMC on Ubuntu but I'm currently still setting up my XP VM so I haven't tried to get it working yet. Is it possible?

[millerg]

I ended up using the upnp capabilities.

[mspinolo]

Hi Greg, did you have any luck with that?

I want to try the same thing on my Ubuntu box using iTunes running in a XP VM. I installed the OS X iTunes plugin for XBMC on Ubuntu but I'm currently still setting up my XP VM so I haven't tried to get it working yet. Is it possible?

hi whittaker007,

how did you manage to do it?
I always get error "installation failed" when trying to install the plug-in