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These are the steps to set up pulpTunes on Linux:
1) Upload to Linux all your music files, conserving the same directory structure you have in your PC or Mac.
2) Create a copy of your iTunes music library XML file.
3) Use your favorite plain-text editor (e.g. Notepad but not Word) to edit that copy. In the XML file there is an entry for each song, and each entry contains a sub-entry "Location" that specifies where in the file system is each song located. You need to update each Location tag, reflecting the new location of your music files in Linux.
For example you might have something like:
<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/John/My%20Documents/My%20Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/Artist/Album/song.mp3</string>
If you copied all your "iTunes Music" directory to your Linux machine under something like /home/john/music then you need to replace the Location entry with:
<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost//home/john/music/iTunes%20Music/Artist/Album/song.mp3</string>
This should be doable in a single operation through your editor's search-and-replace command.
4) Upload that XML file to your Linux machine.
5) After starting pulpTunes in Linux, specify that file when asked. If you're using a console, specify it through the command line with the -xml_location option. For example run:
./pt_linux.sh -xml_location /home/john/itunes.xml -background
(the -background option is to run pulpTunes on the background and get back your command-line prompt. To see all the commands available, use the -h option)
Comment by Spencer - 08/01/2010 2:15 pm
rather than make a copy of all my music and modify the itunes library xml file, I shared the itunes directory from my mac to Ubuntu. I mounted it in a directory and used a symlink so that the path on the Ubuntu file system would match what's in the library xml file. On the mac the music path is like /Users/spencer/Music/iTunes So in Ubuntu I mounted the iTunes directory in /home/spencer/Music/iTunes then created a /Users symlink pointed to /home. The path in Ubuntu was then /Users/spencer/Music/iTunes, just like the contents of the files in the xml library file. I did this so that ratings that I set in pulp tunes would be reflected in iTunes on my mac. I also wanted to keep the library local on my mac since it's quite large and so that I could keep it backed up with time machine.