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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee now works under wine
« on: September 05, 2019, 11:01:00 PM »
the instruction remains the same and is still supported - just change the output API in the Player preferences to DirectSound
Nevermind! It was a problem of mine missing some wine libraries since I'm on a fresh install.
New version works out of the box with WASAPI.
If everyone is wondering, you also need to install Net Framework 4.6.1 or the new version of MusicBee won't start.

Anyway, thanks for the reply as always  :)

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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee now works under wine
« on: September 05, 2019, 10:07:36 PM »
With this version of MB, set the Preferences/Player/output selection to DirectSound and it will retain compatibility with the old DirectSound API using newer versions of bass.dll

https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee32_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing MusicBee files
New version 3.3 of MusicBee suffers the same problem on wine. If I don't ask too much, could you make a patch for it?

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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee now works under wine
« on: August 28, 2018, 03:41:09 PM »
With this version of MB, set the Preferences/Player/output selection to DirectSound and it will retain compatibility with the old DirectSound API using newer versions of bass.dll

https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee32_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing MusicBee files
This 100% works, thanks as always man ;)

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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee now works under wine
« on: July 30, 2018, 01:22:15 PM »
I think its because the new bass.dll uses WASAPI shared mode in place DirectSound
Try this older version of bass.dll
http://www.mediafire.com/file/p45fe25ky1bz8xn/bass.dll/file
That works, thanks!
Are there any negative sides in using an old version of bass.dll?

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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee now works under wine
« on: July 15, 2018, 03:55:37 AM »
I might be late for the reply, sorry!
if you are using just wine you can set up a keyboard shortcut that makes wine open the musicbee executable with a launch parameter like /play, idk what desktop enviroment you are using, but with xfce i can keyboard shortcuts by going into the configurations thingy.
all the parameters: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=6885.0
of course, the obvious huge disadvantage is that your media keys will be tied exclusively to musicbee.
hope this helps.
EDIT: oh, and btw, can you drag and drop albums or tracks to the playing tracks panel? i can't even change the order they are playing :/
When I first posted I was using Cinnamon but now I switched to XFCE and multimedia keys are working as long as the primary window when I press keys is MusicBee. Looks like the problem was in Cinnamon. Anyway I can't drag&drog to the playing panel too, it will throw an error. The same goes for the order, nothing happens.
@Lorenzo - I don't know if this will work for linux and I can't see from the screenshot whether your fonts are lacking anti-aliasing but one thing that made my version for mac looks SO much better was this:

winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb
Unfortunately that didn't help. The problem was mostly with simplified chinese characters, I don't remember exactly how because months have passed, but I somehow managed to make it reading a different chinese Windows font (simhei) instead of simsun in the settings of the wineprefix. Still not the best font, but better than the default one.

Anyway MusicBee 3.2 is out. Tried it but tracks are not playing... anyone having the same issue?

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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee now works under wine
« on: January 31, 2018, 02:01:18 PM »
Did you install GDI+? I had that problem but installing GDI+ via Winetricks made the colors display properly.
How did you get it working? Installing GDI+ makes my MB crashing when I start it.

EDIT: looks like it's a problem with PlayOnLinux. Tried to use Wine alone and it's working fine.
By the way I still haven't found a way to make keyboard multimedia keys working...

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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee now works under wine
« on: January 04, 2018, 12:34:07 PM »
MuiscBee was one of the reasons that kept me on Windows but I've finally got it working fine on Antergos (so basically, Arch). Used PlayOnLinux and the portable version of MusicBee 3 on Wine 3.0. I did a x86 prefix (Windows 7) and only needed to install dotnet40 in order to make it working. In order to play m4a files I followed this.
As for the problem of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters I imported fonts from my Windows partition folder in the MusicBee virtual drive's fonts folder (drive_c/windows/fonts). The font rendering isn't the best probably due to CJK Windows fonts that suck, but it's still better than nothing. I tried to manually change fonts in the MusicBee settings but for some reason fonts like the Adobe's ones or the Google CJK's ones are not showing up.
A thing that is not working, at least for me, is the "auto-pick panel colors" option. Instead of picking the color from the album's art it directly shows the album's cover in a stretched way. So I needed to turn it off and keep the gray color background.
I also wish keyboard's multimedial keys would work, but unfortunately are not. I'm sure there's a workaround but at the moment I still haven't looked into it.
MusicBee remote (my life saviour) is also working fine, so I'm really happy of the result!

Here's a screenshot from my screen:

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