foobar2000

What works

­Playing all formats supported by the application.

Transcoding any supported ­playback format to Ogg Vorbis and MPEG 4 AAC  (I used AoTuv and Nero, respectively.)

Transcoding any supported playback format to MP3. (With Helix MP3 encoder or FhG encoder)

Media Library.

Tagging/Batch tagging any supported playback format with FreeDB data with built in tagger.

What does not

­Equalizer (Crashes the program after opening up a window that flashes bars of ­yellow, red, and green).

The LAME MP3 encoder.

Playing/Ripping audio CDs. (It will report that no drives were found even though I've assigned my drive a letter).

Workarounds

What was not tested

Ripping/Playing CDs since no drive is detected.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I should mention that I'm on Kubuntu, which doesn't have Pulseaudio, so I've configured dmix, which works better anyway.

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.