The beta version of foobar2000 uses Directsound by default, which can cause some problems when playing music. In order to get the program to play music properly, you must set the Hardware Acceleration to emulate Directsound. Go to a terimal and type in "winecfg". A window will open with options for you to modify. Click on the Audio tab, and then look for "Hardware Acceleration". It is currently on "Full". Click on it, and you will have a list of options. Click on "Emulation", and then click on "Apply". foobar2000 should now be able to play music. Note that this will make foobar2000 version 0.8.3 give out an error when you try to play an audio file. Just change it back to "Full" in winecfg when you're done using foobar2000 version 0.9 beta.
Using below command to launch foobar2000, or just prefix the launch command in the shortcut with padsp
padsp wine foobar2000.exe
P.S. This workaround may crash pulseaudio.
WARNING
If you have a LARGE music library foobar2000 may hang while attempting to load it, which may freeze your computer for a short while. During this time, do NOT interrupt the process.
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No status bar refresh
by Peter on Wednesday July 22nd 2009, 13:43
Foobar's status bar won't be refreshed while playing.
On uncovering the window, it also won't be. Only after de-minimizing of the window it will get refreshed.
Foobar V0.9.6.4
Wine 1.0.1
Ubuntu 9.04
"Open Containing Folder" crash
by Peppe Weapon on Sunday May 24th 2009, 6:15
If you right click on a song and select "Open Containing Folder", program crashes and popups me if I want to send a report or view a report, if I click on "View Report", the program crash definitely.
Anyway, it saves the report in program folder, here's the report:
