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--- config:foobar2000 [2020/09/27 23:50] – Wuff
+++ config:foobar2000 [2025/09/19 11:08] (current) – [Updating portable installation under wine] Wuff
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 Foobar is an incredible lightweight music player with media database that can be configured to one's heart content and various plugins and addons are available. While it is a windows app, it works well under wine in Linux.
+https://www.foobar2000.org/
 ===== Installation under wine from previous Windows install =====
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 Use this folder as installation directory, replacing username with the actual linux username ''Z:/home/<username>/.foobar2000'' then select portable install. The hidden directory is not browseable, so enter it in the path box manually.
-#start winetricks and install the following dlls (some may not be required)
+Install winetricks manually:
-<code>winetricks --gui</code>
 <code>
-required: gdiplus, probably not required wmp10, dotnet20
+cd "${HOME}/Downloads"
+wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
+chmod +x winetricks
+sudo cp winetricks /usr/local/bin
-dirac
+cd "${HOME}/Downloads"
-dotnet20
+wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks.bash-completion
-ffdshow
+sudo cp winetricks.bash-completion /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/winetricks
-gdiplus
+</code>
-gdiplus_winxp
-icodecs
+Use winetricks to set the wine prefix to 32bit, windows 10 and install gdiplus:
-l3codex
+Either through gui:
-mfc42
+<code>winetricks --gui</code>
-msvcirt
+or
-ogg
+<code>
-sdl
+winetricks settings win10
-vcrun2008
+winetricks gdiplus
-vcrun6
-vcrun6sp6
-windowscodecs
-wmp10
-wsh56vb
-wsh57
-xvid
 </code>
 #set pseudo drive mappings to be in line with windows drive mappings
-<code>winecfg</code>
+<code>
+WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
+</code>
 #set W: as /media/music\\
 #set S: as /media/downloads\\
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 #save a png icon for foobar as /usr/share/icons/foobar2000.png
+{{:config:foobar-2000-icon.png?nolink|}}  {{:config:dakirby309-simply-styled-foobar-2000.256.png?nolink&64|}}  {{:config:ap_resize.png?nolink&64|}}
 ''sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/foobar2000.desktop''
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 Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 /usr/bin/foobar2000
 Comment=Plays Music
-Icon=foobar2000.png
+Icon=/usr/share/icons/foobar2000.png
 Categories=GNOME;GTK;AudioVideo;Audio;Player;
 StartupWMClass=foobar2000.exe
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 tar cvzf foobar2000.portable.`date +'%Y-%m-%d'`.linux.tgz ~/.foobar2000
 </code>
-  * Start the installer using<code>
+  * Start the 32 bit installer using<code>
-wine foobar2000_v1.5.4.exe
+wine foobar2000_v2.25.1.exe
 </code>
   * Select portable installation
-  * enter the following destination folder, replacing username with the actual linux username<code>Z:\home\<username>\.foobar2000</code>
+  * enter the following destination folder, replacing username with the actual linux username<code>Z:\home\wuff\.foobar2000</code>
-  * When prompted use the separate user-components folder.
+===== Restore backup =====
+<code>
+tar -xzf file_name.tar.gz -C /
+</code>
+===== Disable Wine conf update =====
+If a message like "The Wine configuration in /path/to/.wine is being updated, please wait..." pops up every time foobar is started, the following can help do disable updates:
+<code>
+#echo 'disable' > $WINEPREFIX/.update-timestamp
+echo 'disable' > .wine/.update-timestamp
+</code>
+===== Foobar2000 2.0 notes =====
+Text Display addon is not compatible with 64bit Foobar, but works with 32bit Foobar v2.0. Possible alternative:
+https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,64478.225.html
+Album List white background.
+===== Run Services component =====
+The "Run services" component can be used to add specific commands to the context menu like opening the folder in nemo:
+<code>
+Label: Open file directory in Nemo
+Path: Z:\usr\bin\xdg-open "$replace(%path%,'\','/','Z:',,%filename_ext%,)"
+      Z:\usr\bin\xdg-open "$replace(%path%,'\','/','W:','/media/music/',%filename_ext%,)"
+</code>