iTunes revisited

September 29, 2010

Just for goofs I installed iTunes 10.0.1 and it works for me again. It turns out the problem with those several 9.x versions had to do with VirtualBox, which is the virtualization container I use to run Windows within Linux. VMware apparently does not have the same iTunes compatibility issue, but I never used it much because it's even more closed than VirtualBox (VirtualBox has an open source edition).

But I very rarely use VirtualBox or anything else to run Windows these days. The iTunes issue started about the same time my patience for Windows completely dried up. With a Linux solution for digital music purchases in place, I see little reason to keep the VirtualBox Windows image around. I used to help track down issues affecting Windows users in the open source projects I'm involved with, but that train has sailed. I don't have the patience for Windows.

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