MusicBee

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

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