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MusicBee



MusicBee 3 is a redesign of the user interface.

Application Details:

Version: 3.x
License:
URL: http://www.getmusicbee.com/
Votes: 3
Latest Rating: Bronze
Latest Wine Version Tested: 9.15-staging

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Test Results

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What works

  • switching through playlists, even though load times seem to be a bit longer
  • smooth scrolling
  • cover art is displayed properly
  • Tag editing
  • reading/writing database
  • almost no graphical glitches
  • installs without problems
  • running the portable Windows installation from its "original" directory

What does not

Playback was not possible in my attempt! I could press the Play button and it changed to the Pause symbol, however, the progress indicator doesn't move and music won't play (tested with FLAC, MP3 and AAC)!

Workarounds

In order to run MusicBee, I had to do the following:

Step 1: Do a clean install, remove old wine setup and install a 32-bit environment. ATTENTION: THIS WILL REMOVE ALL OF YOUR EXISTING CONFIGURATION IN WINE'S DEFAULT DIRECTORY (~/.wine)!

rm -r -f ~/.wine<br>WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine wineboot<br>

Step 2: Install windowscodecs through winetricks:

winetricks windowscodecs
winetricks windowscodecs

This will probably fail to install but is needed to register the windowscodecs. You'll have to manually extract the windowscodecs.dll from the installer file that's found in ~/.cache/winetricks/windowscodecs and copy it to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32

Step 3: Install remaining dependencies. I only needed to install dotnet45 and gdiplus to make MusicBee run and look good without graphic glitches, but those were mentioned dependencies in older successful tests.

winetricks dotnet45 mfc42 xmllite gdiplus d3dx9 vcrun2008 wmp10

You'll have to set your environment to Windows 7 or higher, else MusicBee will refuse to start. You can do this by opening winecfg and change the system to your preferred version of Windows.

What was not tested

Everything that needs songs playing like fading and gapless playing.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU: Nvidia
  • Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowFedora 40 KDE Plasma DesktopSep 29 20249.15-stagingYes Yes YesBronzeVictini 
ShowFedora 40 KDE Plasma DesktopMay 21 20249.5-stagingYes Yes YesBronzeVictini 
ShowEndeavourOSApr 27 20238.6-stagingYes Yes YesSilverVictini 
ShowopenSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release)Mar 06 20238.2Yes Yes YesGoldVaishnav 
ShowopenSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release)Feb 21 20238.2Yes No NoGarbageVaishnav 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
51538 Multiple games fail to launch from NTFS partitions after Linux 5.13 RESOLVED NOTOURBUG View
52078 MusicBee: exception when attempting to drag tabs ( (QueryInterface for the interface with IID '{83E07D0D-0C5F-4163-BF1A-60B274051E40}' gives Exception E_NOINTERFACE)) NEW View
53019 MusicBee: inconsistent CJK/non-Latin support with Tahoma, no support on any other font. UNCONFIRMED View
56921 MusicBee: Random moments of lag when scrolling, seemingly related to rendering of rating stars. UNCONFIRMED View

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