Wine Reviews
foobar2000 on Linux with Wine Print
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



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