TunesViewer

TunesViewer is a small, easy to use program to access iTunes-university
media and podcasts in Linux.

Features:

• Direct searching, browsing, and downloading.
• Supports itunes-University login, to download students-and-staff-only
  media.
• Reveals the standard rss-podcast-feed of the itunes-podcasts, for use in
  any podcast software.
• Includes the option to set itself as default protocol handler, to go
  directly from the "loading itunes-U..." page to viewing with TunesViewer.

Non-Features:

• Automatic podcast updates, auto-downloads and transfers: this program
  isn't a general-purpose podcast manager, but it can add podcasts to
  rhythmbox/gpodder/amarok/etc.
• iTunes Store: this will not let you connect to iTunes store accounts or
  buy anything.

Minimum System Requirements:

Tunesviewer works well even on older computers, but you must have
pygtk >= 2.16 and lxml available. This shouldn't be a problem for
recent versions of Ubuntu, Fedora etc., as these prerequisites should be
taken care of automatically by package managers.

Installation:

1. Download the install package: (.deb installer for Ubuntu/Debian
   based operating systems, .rpm installer for Fedora/Red Hat based
   operating systems).

2. Open the package and it should install. After installing, you should see
   TunesViewer on your Applications - Internet menu.

3. Important post-installation setup: Go to TunesViewer preferences (in the
   Edit menu), and select the download-folder. Choose the folder you want
   to download to. If you select your rhythmbox/amarok library directory
   they should automatically add to your library.

The main project of TunesViewer is hosted on SourceForge.net.

Building a Debian Package

Building a Debian Package from the git repository, ready for installation in
your system is as easy as:

1. Installing the packages build-essential, debhelper, fakeroot, and python
2. Checking out the debian branch of this project
3. Typing fakeroot debian/rules clean binary

Experimental Debian Packages

Moderately recent and ready-to-install packages for Debian-based systems
(like Ubuntu, Linux mint and others) taken from this development tree are
provided in Rogério Theodoro de Brito's PPA.

You are welcome to install them and to report potential issues with respect
to the packaging in this project's issue tracker.