Does anyone successfully run Foobar2000 on linux ( under Wine ) ? Are there any alternatives with a similar philosophy, and maybe even with the ability to use the Foobar2000 plugins ?
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There are lots of audio players on Linux that are similar to Foobar. You might like Amarok or Songbird.
However to get Foobar2000 running under wine, it looks like all you need to do is use winetricks to install needed fonts. This forum has instructions.
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(+1) Thanks. The forum link was helpful. I think it might be a bit outdated, but it's the best I could find too.– user4358Sep 6, 2009 at 16:56
deadbeef is a nice little clone of foobar2000 for linux. Its got a very similar UI, and its own, admittedly limited plugin system - you can get plugins here here and installation instructions for those here.) It does have the clean, basic layout I'm used to.
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1with the 'file browser' plugin, it can access a large media library and stay as light as before (and in this respect it behaves better than foobar, which gets somewhat heavier than before when monitoring a large music media library)– user162573Sep 2, 2013 at 9:16
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A good alternative, though the tag editor interface doesn't work with the keyboard as easily. Also, if you have trouble playing M4A files, try adding
m4a
to the list of extensions that FFMPEG supports (Preferences > Plugins > FFMPEG audio player > Configure > File Extensions).– palswimNov 25, 2017 at 21:50
Amarok is the closest I found to Foobar on Linux.
There's nothing that can use Foobar plugins that I know of.
I haven't run it under Wine personally but people have reported it seems to work pretty well.
foobar2000 works perfectly in Wine, with addons.
Regarding fonts/appearance, look here - for Linux alternatives, here.
More recently, foobar2000 is available as a snap in Ubuntu.
I don't know enough about snaps to endorse this method (and haven't even tried it myself), but apparently you can get foobar2000 on Linux via SnapCraft. It must use Wine under the hood?
Works perfectly with PlayOnLinux as well, which is easier to setup than Wine (provides macros and scripting for needed component install).
The only complication that I experienced was setting up a network drive mapping, which must be done with CIFS in order to have Foobar see my network shares correctly. If you are using local storage this is not an issue.