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Lemons to lemonaid: New favorite audio player

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MrSparkle:
Clemintine looks nice so far, thanks for the link! I will forever be a foobar fanboy, but there will be times I want to play music from something other then windows. The actively developed bit is a big plus...

Well, it wanted 500 MB of ram to make the library, that took a program restart to lose. Before that it froze at 90%. Now it is uses 50 MB (5 MB more then foobar with all my playlists and components)...

kureshii:

--- Quote from: MrSparkle on September 19, 2010, 11:16:19 PM ---Clemintine looks nice so far, thanks for the link! I will forever be a foobar fanboy, but there will be times I want to play music from something other then windows.
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I was pleasantly surprised to find that foobar works just fine in Linux under wine. Pretty much everything works (assuming your plugins are compatible and such), except for kernel streaming and WASAPI, and also native drag-and-drop (which is more wine's fault than foobar’s). With a suitable XP theme loaded, you can even get it to look near-seamless. It’ll take some messing around in wine to get all the niceties enabled (anti-aliased fonts and such); this is a good place to start.

My current foobar-wine setup (with some UI elements hidden):

(GUI glitches are due to the buggy XP skin; KDE4 themes for XP are depressingly rare.)

Ironically, foobar readily managed to read my network shares, while after much messing around in Amarok, network playback with it was still spotty at best. I still remain hopeful for a native Linux app that can replace it.

I haven’t gotten round to looking at foobar’s SDK yet, but I’d think a customisable randomisation plugin could be written with it.

MrSparkle:
Global hotkeys are out when using foobar in wine, last I heard. I lose half the reason for foobar without those hotkeys. Any other players with similar uber global hotkey support? UPnP over a local network could work? Only used it from another foobar instance, though...

But yeah, Clemintine messed with my shell integration...
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kureshii:

--- Quote from: MrSparkle on September 20, 2010, 03:25:27 AM ---Global hotkeys are out when using foobar in wine, last I heard. I lose half the reason for foobar without those hotkeys.
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You still get global hotkeys through command switches for foobar (and your distro’s built-in hotkey features). Just more troublesome to set up.

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