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 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
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:
Additional Comments
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Fedora 40 KDE Plasma Desktop | Sep 29 2024 | 9.15-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Victini | |
Show | Fedora 40 KDE Plasma Desktop | May 21 2024 | 9.5-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Victini | |
Show | EndeavourOS | Apr 27 2023 | 8.6-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Victini | |
Show | openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release) | Mar 06 2023 | 8.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Vaishnav | |
Show | openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release) | Feb 21 2023 | 8.2 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Vaishnav |
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 |