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Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by colanderman »

necessity wrote: post #18
maxerickson wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can name maybe a dozen that do all that foobar2000 does Do it. Be sure to show how the mass tagger works in each one of them. Especially the pattern matching to extract data from filenames, I really like that feature.

Why use MP3 tags anyway? I don't understand, they're so burdensome to manage. I just do: ./Artist/Year - Album/Track - Title.mp3 It'll work with any music player and you can organize it even on a toaster, as long as it has coreutils. I use plain old mplayer to listen to music, just cd into the directory I want and call a script I made which is basically a glorified `find | xargs mplayer` (actually outputs the filenam…

Many song titles have characters which are not legal in a filename, and this varies by OS.

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by wander_homer »

necessity wrote: post #18
maxerickson wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can name maybe a dozen that do all that foobar2000 does Do it. Be sure to show how the mass tagger works in each one of them. Especially the pattern matching to extract data from filenames, I really like that feature.

Why use MP3 tags anyway? I don't understand, they're so burdensome to manage. I just do: ./Artist/Year - Album/Track - Title.mp3 It'll work with any music player and you can organize it even on a toaster, as long as it has coreutils. I use plain old mplayer to listen to music, just cd into the directory I want and call a script I made which is basically a glorified `find | xargs mplayer` (actually outputs the filenam…

And by that you lose quite a lot of flexibility. How do you listen to all the classical music that was composed in the 19th century, and was added during the last month to your library? With foobar2000 (or other players) this can be done in a matter of seconds, and you can create an auto playlist based on those criteria which updates automatically when you add new songs or songs no longer match.

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by peatmoss »

tehwalrus wrote: post #15

Wine was extremely helpful during my PhD to get a few weird win32 programs running on Debian. Pleased to see they're continuing the effort!

I've seen some crazy binary-only, extremely niche products used in academia / sciences. I could not be happier that, at least for new stuff, Linux is very much becoming a first-class citizen for work that academics do. Sadly, device manufacturers ("We sell a device for measuring methane emissions from squirrels!") aren't quite there yet...

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by kej »

lnternet wrote: post #25

Is it possible to run Wine on Windows (without resorting to Windows 10 and WSL)?

Would this be for running 16 bit programs on 64 bit Windows, or is there another use case I'm not thinking of?

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by jakobdabo »

maxerickson wrote: post #17
nunodonato wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of all the things you could use wine for.. an mp3 player, really? I can name maybe a dozen that do all that foobar2000 does

I can name maybe a dozen that do all that foobar2000 does Do it. Be sure to show how the mass tagger works in each one of them. Especially the pattern matching to extract data from filenames, I really like that feature.

Not the GP, but DeaDBeeF is a really good and extendable (by plugins) audio player. I myself switched from foobar2000 years ago and there isn't much that I miss.

I'm not sure whether there is the pattern matching feature (or a plugin), but I think it may be achieved using the Shellexec plugin and some scripting.

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by btschaegg »

maxerickson wrote: post #17
nunodonato wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of all the things you could use wine for.. an mp3 player, really? I can name maybe a dozen that do all that foobar2000 does

I can name maybe a dozen that do all that foobar2000 does Do it. Be sure to show how the mass tagger works in each one of them. Especially the pattern matching to extract data from filenames, I really like that feature.

To me, listening to and tagging music seem to be two rather orthogonal problems. There are very good tagging applications that don't actually play the files. My current favorite definitely is beets (http://beets.io/), although it may take some minutes to set up (at least if you want the hashing feature where the audio itself is used to look up metadata). Another (rather old) Windows-Application that was very useful for tagging was "The GodFather".

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by lnternet »

kej wrote: post #26
lnternet wrote: post #25

Is it possible to run Wine on Windows (without resorting to Windows 10 and WSL)?

Would this be for running 16 bit programs on 64 bit Windows, or is there another use case I'm not thinking of?

There are quite a few older Win32 games that won't run on modern Windows systems despite the built-in compatibility modes.

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by kensai »

wineisgreat wrote: post #11

Wine is a godsend for the still very lackluster linux desktop experience. I just started listening to music locally rather than relying on streaming music again. I used to do curate my music on Windows with MP3Tag, which lets you import data from 3rd party services, has an amazingly fast and efficient UI, and lets you quickly batch rename files based on their tags. I looked at all the Linux alternatives and none of t…

As your handle is "wineisgreat", I assume your know your shit! :D
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