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====== Foobar2000 ======

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 =====

<code>
mkdir ~/.foobar2000
cp c:/users/<username>/AppData/Roaming/foobar2000/* ~/.foobar2000
apt-get install wine:i386 winetricks
wine foobar-install.exe
</code>
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.

Install winetricks manually:
<code>
cd "${HOME}/Downloads"
wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
sudo cp winetricks /usr/local/bin

cd "${HOME}/Downloads"
wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks.bash-completion
sudo cp winetricks.bash-completion /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/winetricks
</code>

Use winetricks to set the wine prefix to 32bit, windows 10 and install gdiplus:
Either through gui:
<code>winetricks --gui</code>
or
<code>
winetricks settings win10
winetricks gdiplus
</code>

#set pseudo drive mappings to be in line with windows drive mappings
<code>
WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
</code>
#set W: as /media/music\\
#set S: as /media/downloads\\

#Gnome integration as per:
#https://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=54933

''sudo gedit /usr/bin/foobar2000''\\
<code>
#!/bin/sh
cd ~/.foobar2000/
if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
filename=`echo z:$1 | sed 's/\\//\\\\/g'`
wine foobar2000.exe "$filename" &
else
wine foobar2000.exe &
fi
</code>

''sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/foobar2000''\\

#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''
<code>
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=foobar2000
GenericName=Plays Music
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Terminal=false
Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 /usr/bin/foobar2000
Comment=Plays Music
Icon=/usr/share/icons/foobar2000.png
Categories=GNOME;GTK;AudioVideo;Audio;Player;
StartupWMClass=foobar2000.exe
</code>

===== Updating portable installation under wine =====

  * Make a backup before and/or after the upgrade of the foobar folder using<code>
tar cvzf foobar2000.portable.`date +'%Y-%m-%d'`.linux.tgz ~/.foobar2000
</code>
  * Start the installer using<code>
wine foobar2000_v1.6.16.exe
</code>
  * Select portable installation
  * 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>