TunesViewer

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, these requirements should install automatically.

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.