Foobar2000 on linux

Question

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 ?

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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.

Solution 3

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.

Comments

[Admin]

(+1) Thanks. The forum link was helpful. I think it might be a bit outdated, but it's the best I could find too.

[MysticForce]

with 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)

[palswim]

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).