foobar2000 on Linux with Wine

Written by Tom Wickline

Tuesday, 23 October 2007 04:02

About foobar2000

Features

Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA.
Full unicode support.
Advanced tagging capabilities.
Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component (requires external commandline encoder executables for different output formats).
ReplayGain support - both playback and calculation.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

Wine configuration

This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop.

$ winecfg

Once the .wine directory is built the configuration tool will start and you can set a virtul desktop in the graphics tab if you wish.

Installing foobar2000

tom@tom:~$ wine foobar2000_0.9.4.5.exe
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination
fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete SHAutoComplete stub

foobar2000 first run

tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/foobar2000
tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/foobar2000$ wine foobar2000.exe
fixme:menu:TrackPopupMenuEx not fully implemented