<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Hi Adrian,<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Apple doesn’t follow XDG standards—and neither do Chromebooks, for the most part—but this might nonetheless be of some help…</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">“iTunes” (the application), while it did incorporate ”iTunes” (the music store) pretty early on, was mainly designed for offline listening and synchronizing attached devices.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">“iTunes” (the application) no longer really exists (except as an unrelated standalone storefront on iPhones). In its place is a much more lightweight music-listening application and separate device-management frameworks.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Unlike with their operating systems, Apple has tried to make its media stores and media subscriptions available on as many platforms a possible, and this includes making much of the core functionality available in a web browser, as with Spotify, Netflix, and the like.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">So while I don’t think you can “purchase” music from “iTunes” (the store) on the web, you should be able to listen to previously “purchased” on the Apple Music website, and i<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">f you “purchased” music from the iTunes Store in the past, you can export it (on Mac or Windows) and then reimport it into any web-based music “locker” service, most of which should work on your Chromebook.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As for using “iTunes” (the application) on a Chromebook (such as for exporting “purchased” music),</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> it may be possible to run the Windows version of the application using the framework “Wine”, either on the the Chromebook’s underlying Linux subsystem or on a cloud-based virtual private server, but… </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">again, that really isn’t related to XDG specifications.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you want to try using iTunes on Wine, this DuckDuckGo search should help you get started:</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=itunes+wine+chromebook"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=itunes+wine+chromebook" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#DFDFE1;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#DFDFE1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(223, 223, 225, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=itunes+wine+chromebook" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#000000" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);">itunes wine chromebook</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=itunes+wine+chromebook" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#A2A2A9" style="color: rgba(60, 60, 67, 0.6);">duckduckgo.com</font></a></div></div></td><td style="padding:6px 12px 6px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-rightIconItem" width="24"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=itunes+wine+chromebook" draggable="false"><img alt="DDG-iOS-icon_152x152.png" src="cid:9DB74558-22A5-47C4-98DA-5D7C30D2B73E"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">Best,</div><div dir="ltr">Elsie Hupp</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"></div><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 16, 2023, at 11:20 PM, adrian Nira <ampcs.adriannira@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">How can I download iTunes on my chromebook?
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