foobar2000

What works

• audio playback works fine with both the default sample rate in winecfg and the resampler DSP in foobar2000 set to 24-bit/96 khz
• layout editing
• get tag from freedb
• Replaygain scan and playback
• Add to Playback queue
• Album list
• Media Library Search
• always show notification area icon
• minimize to notification area
• console
• edit metadata and view properties
• adjust volume
• using seekbar
• Equalizer

What does not

• global shortcuts
• shortcuts with Win-key
• show balloon tooltip on song change

Workarounds

What was not tested

• additional plugins
• other advanced features
• file formats expect FLAC with cuesheet and MP3.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

You need Microsoft GDI+ library (gdiplus.dll) to make the cover art work well. Adding visualisation like VU Meter in interface will take more cpu usage.

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.

following this link:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=964580

Launch winecfg with below command.

padsp winecfg

In audio tab, only select oss driver.

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.