iTunes for Linux

Fellow Geeks,

I’m in the process of switching to a new machine at work. Gone will be my dilapidated Dell desktop system with its paltry 1G of RAM and 30G HD. Also gone will be my dual Hitachi 20″ tubes that take up half the desk space in my cube. It will be replaced by an HP Intel Core 2 Duo system, 2G RAM, 160G SATA HD, and dual Samsung 20″ flat panel LCDs (1600×1050).

The old machine is running Windows XP and I use iTunes to listen to music throughout my work day. The MP3 files are on an external HD connected via FireWire and I use the Party Shuffle feature which is fed by a smart playlist to help everything get listened to fairly evenly.

The new machine is running Ubuntu 6.10. I can hook the HD to the new system just fine and see all the files, but what I’m hoping to find is a good MP3 player. In a perfect world, Apple would make iTunes for Linux. Unfortunately, they don’t.

Any suggestions?

Yes, I’m aware that Crossover Office supports iTunes (really only up to v4, v7 is known not to work according to the CodeWeavers site). I may end up going this route, assuming XO actually does iTunes 7 and the Web site is wrong, but I’m hoping to find an equally capable application that runs in native mode.

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