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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee now works under wine
« on: March 01, 2023, 04:31:01 PM »
That makes no sense to me.
Are you saying that Linux is able to natively run Windows programs, depending on .NET versions used?

Not quite, I was saying that .NET is adding more and more support for building applications that work on linux (i.e. cross-platform development):

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The .NET Framework technology has been part of the Windows platform since the NT 4.0/XP era, providing developers with an integrated environment (class library, language interoperability, runtime/execution engine) to write Windows-specific applications easily. The environment has been now replaced by .NET (Core), which is a cross-platform technology supporting all the major desktop and mobile operating systems available today.

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Furthermore, the .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) SDK can help build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications from the same codebase.

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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee now works under wine
« on: February 26, 2023, 07:36:59 PM »
The OP has not given any information whatsoever on how he is (trying) to use MusicBee on Linux (or what distribution), nor what emulator he is using, nor what issues he may be experiencing.
So we probably shouldn't care too much. As a dartboard guess: maybe this one?:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=17074.0

Not terribly interested in WINE, I was more interested if the new .NET upgrades might allow for easier native implementation, but I guess I took too long to respond.

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Tips and Tricks / Re: .NET 8
« on: February 26, 2023, 05:46:18 PM »
Oh, yeah, absolutely was not looking for the dev to respond. I suppose I figured there'd be someone with some sort of knowledge on the topic roaming the forums, but it's not a big deal.

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Tips and Tricks / Re: .NET 8
« on: February 26, 2023, 05:17:50 PM »
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It might make sense to move this thread to one of the existing Linux topics (which is what the OP is actually asking about here) to keep things a bit together and not spread all over?

This would be fine with me, I don't mean to step on anyone's toes. I only posted this question because I've seen in past that .NET was part of what made deploying musicbee on linux problematic (only the dev knows if this is actually the case) and that .NET has recently been updated with linux support and was interested if this would have any sort of impact.

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Tips and Tricks / Re: .NET 8
« on: February 26, 2023, 05:09:57 PM »
I don't think .net has anything to do with it.

You need to understand that MB is a one person operation. There is no development team. The sole developer, Steven, does this as a hobby in his spare time. I don't speak for him but since he has a life and a job, he probably doesn't have the time nor the desire, to support another version.

Again, read the Wiki and the many forum posts
https://musicbee.fandom.com/wiki/FAQ#Will_MusicBee_be_ported_to_Mac/Linux/other_OS?

I appreciate your attention here, but your link is where I found out about .NET in the first place:

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Begging is a bit underhanded, he has already replied on the issue a while ago.

Here's the issue from a programmers perspective.
MusicBee is based heavily on .NET
.NET is Microsoft and windows.

That leaves 3 options for Linux:
1) use Mono (open source Linux C#) but its far from perfect. as in galaxies away.
2) use Wine, which is an option,
        but sound quality becomes questionable, unless you use wineasio and jack.
        then its all the wine hacks he will have to put in, and there will be many, and many odd ass bugs. which is not fun for a dev.
3) Rewrite it using QT, which is laughable. If it took him this long to get MusicBee this good on .NET, because it would be a full rewrite and in C++ not C# and the differences are vast.

there are so many more issues, thankfully though the BASS library does support linux.  

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Tips and Tricks / Re: .NET 8
« on: February 26, 2023, 04:19:51 PM »
Yeah, I realize it's been discussed before a number of times, but from my understanding it's been .NET that's gotten in the way of linux development.

My question isn't just "why isn't musicbee on linux", it's "Do changes to .NET change the state of this discussion at all?"

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Tips and Tricks / .NET 8
« on: February 26, 2023, 03:49:45 PM »
Does added support for linux in the .NET framework move us in anyway towards MusicBee ending up on linux? I confess my utter ignorance when it comes to building cross-platform software.

I apologize is this is already being discussed elsewhere on the forum of if I'm beating a horse that's already been dead for years.

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General Discussions / gofundme for linux
« on: September 11, 2022, 06:16:50 AM »
musicbee  has tethered me to windows. I can't switch OS's because this app is so well made. I'm willing to shell out a couple thousand dollars for someone to port musicbee to linux - would anyone else be interested in contributing? I'm not sure what it would cost in total to develop a proper port and would appreciate input.

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Skins / Re: Chameleon DNA & Cheetah DNA (skin creation tools)
« on: January 12, 2022, 04:59:21 PM »
Love this so much.

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Seems to work perfectly!

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I apologize, some of that was fake news :-[ .  I tried disabling/enabling the plugin and restarting musicbee a few more times to be sure, and it does seem that the overlay plugin is causing the issue.  I don't get double pause/play, next/previous when it's disabled.  It was certainly not the most recent update that caused the problem, but it hasn't persisted for that long maybe  few months...?  I'm not sure exactly when it became a problem since for a while I believed it was a general windows 10 issue rather than being related to musicbee specifically.

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For me, the issue is purely with keyboard media controls (pause/play, previous, next).  They all input twice.  I've tried it with the "media control" plugin both enabled and disabled, and the issue persisted regardless.  One thing worth nothing, the issue does seem to briefly sort itself out when enabling/disabling the plugin, but it reverts to doubling input to musicbee after a restart.  I double-checked, and this issue is not occurring in any other media player on my PC currently.

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General Discussions / Re: "Windows" theme XML
« on: May 13, 2019, 12:46:06 AM »
Forgot to ever say thanks for the responses, sorry about that.

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General Discussions / "Windows" theme XML
« on: September 08, 2018, 07:48:14 PM »
Does anyone know how to extract the XML for the basic windows theme?  I love how well it meshes with the general look of windows 10, but it's geared to windows 10 "light" theme and I'd like to rework it to better reflect window's dark theme.


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