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sbt1

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[solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

Hi there,

I switched recently (again) from Win7 to arch. After having tried ~15 audio players I come to the conclusion that I totally need foobar2000, it is simply the best.
The installation went smooth, but in the config dialogue of foobar there are no audio devices to output sound to. Here a few facts:

- The "Test Sound" button in winecfg works
- I can seamlessly switch between spdif and analog sound in the gnome audio settings, so I believe in genereal everything is cool
- native music playback from arch works perfectly
- in foobar2000 there is no device listed, all I can choose is "Null Output"

how do i tell foobar that there is a device to output music to?

Could you please help me?

Last edited by sbt1 (2015-01-14 14:48:24)

karol

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Re: [solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

See if http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index. … opic=54933 can help.

sbt1

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Re: [solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

Oh my god, I forgot:

f you want to use Alsa driver in Wine on a 64-bit system, you'll need to install lib32-alsa-lib and lib32-alsa-plugins. If you are also using PulseAudio, you will need to install lib32-libpulse. 

I am really sorry for wasting your time!

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Alad

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Re: [solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

A bit off-topic, but have you noticed high CPU use with foobar2k in Wine? For me, it's at about 40% when playing mp3 files.

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sbt1

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Re: [solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

flac files 10-20%, mp3s also. thats not good, any ideas?

Alad

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Re: [solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

I have 10% with deadbeef, I guess we have different CPUs (try results for other linux players). But according to this, the WINE version makes a difference. There's also "CMST". PlayOnLinux makes either easier, but will take some experimenting.

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sbt1

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Re: [solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

i know this is, like REALLY, old, but I'd like to share my recent experiences:

Recently I reinstalled foobar using PlayOnLinux (no more pure wine) and all performance issues are gone. No more pauses when opening a new firefox tab
Only the first few seconds/minutes when initializing the library  let the sound stumble, but after that everything works like a charm!

graysky

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Re: [solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

Glad you got it working.  Recommend that you use a Linux native one moving forward to avoid excess bloat.  Mpd for example is simply the best™.

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sbt1

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Re: [solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

I actually tried all music players I was able to find, but none of them felt right. i don't like using a proprietary windows one, but it is the only one I like.

The only one I did not try is mpd so far, so you might be right

Is it possible to browse music with mpd respectively one of its frontends foobar-like by folder structure? this is the one point I care about, and which none of all the others players had...

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Goresome

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Re: [solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

Cantata (mpd frontend) have amazing music library management, and yes, it also allows to browse&search folder structure.

graysky

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Re: [solved] foobar2000 with wine - no audio device

Yes, mpd is a daemon and you may connect to it from a variety of frontends.  I love ncurses interfaces and use ncmpcpp which you can customize how ever you want.  See my dotfiles in my sig for my ~/..ncmpcpp/config.  We have an mpd server running on a RPi we use with iphone frontends for entertaining (home stereo).  It is very versatile.

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