my iphone was stolen few weeks ago. Now, my main media player, on train, had fattened to 2.2Kg white macbook.

I was being bind to itunes due to sync with iphone. Now, I’m free to sync, and I prefer to move this “compy’s function” to ubuntu and leave itunes app. I found this workaround to play this media on my preferred music/video player:

https://launchpad.net/itunes-export

the basic is: you can create a pls file from your itunes playlist stored on his library. This means you can play these files outside itunes on any pls compatible player (vlc, rhythmbox, amarok, xmms, mplayer, …)

with fews steps you can do the same. Open a terminal

1- Get a copy of the branch

bzr branch lp:itunes-export

2- Get a copy of your itunes library xml. I’m using one on osx partition. You need to disable journal to get mounted on your ubuntu (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/hfsplus)

cp /media/ipoma/Users/piscue/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music\ Library.xml ~/itunes-export

3- generate a pls from your itunes library. with this I’ve done a pls from podcasts playlist on itunes. Watch path “search & replace” and slashes “file:///”

cd itunes-export

python itunes2pl.py -f pls -e —name “Podcasts” -r file://localhost/Users/piscue/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/ file:///media/ipoma/Users/piscue/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/ “iTunes Music Library.xml” “Podcasts” >Podcasts.pls

with this you have a direct refferal to your media files. Next post, I’ll cover how to move your podcasts subscriptions.