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Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by merb »

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…

well I used mp3tag a lot, too. however I changed to MusicBrainz Picard after having a mac. For converting I actually found 'Soundconverter' the linux app the best, even tough dbpower amp is really great for mac and windows (and they have more functions) but their UI is so noisy and I don't need the extra fueatures. And a Mp3Tag is actually EasyTag not as good as Mp3Tag, but together with MusicBrainz Picard I was actually faster than with Mp3Tag. For listening music I actually like/liked Clementine besides the horrible UI but for Mac I liked iTunes, as well which a lot of people don't like. Before the akward update on iTunes it also had a pretty neat way to create dynamic playlists for certain types of genres, now you can only do that globally since than I also started to use Clementine.

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by nkkollaw »

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…

You might want to take a look at Spotify, they offer a Linux version.

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by anta40 »

wine + mingw cross compiler = native Windows apps development on Linux.

I still couldn't find how to do the reverse without VM....

update Just found coLinux. seems to be stagnant, though.

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by awqrre »

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…

Can you filter by genre? I know that you could do something like ./Genre/Artist/Year - Album/Track - Title.mp3 but there is possibly other elements that are useful in mp3 tags... and what if one song could be classified in multiple genres? would you keep multiple copies?

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by curiousgal »

nunodonato wrote: post #16
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…

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 use it to run 1password and it works almost perfectly.

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by brianwawok »

davidgerard wrote: post #14
cookiecaper wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WINE works very well for most software that primarily utilizes common and mature APIs, which covers a lot of really great software, especially small, specialized utilities for niches that don't get a ton of commercial attention. It's generally the more complex and cutting-edge stuff that makes use of newer pieces of .NET, DirectX, or rarely-used components of obscure APIs that WINE struggles with. Unfortunately, a la…

> It's generally the more complex and cutting-edge stuff that makes use of newer pieces of .NET, DirectX, or rarely-used components of obscure APIs that WINE struggles with. Yeah, this is why Wine tends to use the "get the application to work" method. Thankfully a lotta the guys at Codeweavers are gamers who want their stuff to work too ;-) .NET is a friggin' nightmare IME, even after you've installed over half a gig…

Net should get better over time with native Linux support no?

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

anta40 wrote: post #33

wine + mingw cross compiler = native Windows apps development on Linux. I still couldn't find how to do the reverse without VM.... update Just found coLinux. seems to be stagnant, though.

How close does the Windows 10 Linux subsystem come to what you need to develop?

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by wander_homer »

jakobdabo wrote: post #27
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.

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.

DeaDBeeF is great - I'm one of the developers - but there's still a lot to do before we come to feature parity with foobar2000 and have the same quality. E.g. an often requested feature which is still missing is a media library, with a proper query language so you can do stuff like:

%genre% HAS progressive AND %added% DURING LAST 4 WEEKS

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by jklehm »

lnternet wrote: post #25

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

To some extent on the SUA.[0] I'm curious to see someone write up an attempt with the WSL.[1]

[0] https://wiki.winehq.org/Cygwin_and_More#Psst..._Even_Microso...

[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...

Re: Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

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Post by dedosk »

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…

Amarok? Have you tried that one?
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