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Tips and Tricks / Re: [GUIDE] How to use Musicbee on Linux (Archlinux/Debian based distro)

« on: June 27, 2023, 09:54:07 PM »

Latest Musicbee is up and running.  I took a slightly different route. I haevn't touched wine in years so I cannot confirm if any of these steps are not needed or deterimental. Any feedback is appreciated.  I'm running the latest Pop_OS.

Verify i386 support
 Verify 64-bit architecture. The following command should respond with "amd64".

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$ dpkg --print-architecture

See if 32-bit architecture is installed. The following command should respond with "i386".

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$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

If "i386" is not displayed, execute the following.

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$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Recheck with.

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$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

Install wine staging
Install WINE on Ubunto

Install .NET

Create prefix for MusicBee and .NET

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WINEPREFIX=path/to/whereYouWantYourWineprefix/ wineboot –init 

Install .NET 4.0 and corefonts

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WINEPREFIX=path/to/whereYouWantYourWineprefix/ winetricks --force dotnet40 corefonts

Install xmllite and gdiplus

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WINEPREFIX=path/to/whereYouWantYourWineprefix/ winetricks –q xmllite gdiplus

 
set wine to win7 compatability

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WINEPREFIX=path/to/whereYouWantYourWineprefix/ winetricks win7 

Install .NET 4.8

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WINEPREFIX=path/to/whereYouWantYourWineprefix/  wine $HOME/Downloads/ndp48-x86-x64-allos-enu.exe /q 

Install Music Bee

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WINEPREFIX=path/to/whereYouWantYourWineprefix/  wine $HOME/Downloads/MusicBeeSetup_3_5.exe 

I did not remove the Win7 compatability setting after installing .NET 4.8.  Not sure if this matters or not.  I let the Installer drop a shortcut on my desktop which works without issue.  Running on an ultrawide 3440x1440 display without making any wine config changes and cpu isage is <1% listening to flac files.

Sources:
Install Wine on Pop_OS
Install wine on Ubunto
Install .NET Framework