foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119], app bundle Options

[Dibrom]

So I've finally found some passion for seriously listening to music again and iTunes just wasn't cutting it for me. Cog didn't quite have all the features I wanted, and I couldn't get Play to compile or run on Snow Leopard. That only left one option: foobar2000 under Wine.

People have been running foobar2000 under Wine for awhile, mostly successfully. However, it's kind of a hassle to have to download, read about, and configure Wine correctly when you just want to be listening to your music already. To alleviate some of the annoyance, I've created a little app bundle and installer for foobar2000 and Wine. What you get is a foobar2000.app that you can just double click on and it will load more or less like any other app. Of course, the controls look like Windows controls, but hey, we can't have everything, right?

I haven't had a chance to test this bundle extensively, so it would be useful if Mac OS X users could try it and give me some feedback. You can download it here.

Note 1: You will need X11 installed to run this. It may already be installed. If not, find it on the Mac OS X install disc.
Note 2: If you have previously one of the beta versions, I recommend deleting your old installation first. Make sure to back up any custom foobar2000 settings.

The download is ~60MB, mostly because it is bundled with Wine. If you already have Wine installed, this should still work perfectly – it should just use the local Wine configuration contained in the app bundle and ignore your previous installation. Nothing is installed to your system directories so your existing version of Wine won't be overwritten or anything like that.

And of course, here are some screenshots of it in action:






Disclaimer: This distribution is experimental and not officially supported. I did speak with Peter about it before I uploaded it and I believe he is having his testers take a look at it, but if you encounter problems, please notify me or post in this thread for the meantime.

Have fun and don't forget to leave feedback if you check it out.

This post has been edited by Dibrom: Jan 26 2010, 17:25

Reason for edit: updated to 1.0

[akabusi]

cheers for the replies Dibrom, I should have twigged that it would likely be a Wine issue after changing things like 'enqueue as default action', which all works fine. not really a dragon-dropper myself and will give adding files through foobar a bash for a while.
suppose I could do some tests to see which way is quicker but think that can wait for a rainy day. a very, very rainy day..

delighted to have my foobar back anyway so thanks again!

[Suit_Of_Sables]

First I'd like to preface my post by saying that despite my whining about any minor issues I may be having I really am so very grateful to you Dibrom for taking the time to bring us this wonderful OSX bundle.
Now on with the whining. There are a few things I noticed and I'd like to see if others were having similar problems.
1) tracks from .cue files apearing in my library even after restarting with *.CUE in the exluded list
2) No iPod discoverable when connected and using iPod Manager (foo_dop) (My mac sees it but foobar doesn't)
3) Crash on 'open containing folder' from selection (maybe I should make my library folder somewhere on the imaginary C drive. as the file path now says it's Z:\user\home\blah\blah)
4) I guess everyone knows folder monitoring doesn't work but it still makes me sad

[Dibrom]

1) tracks from .cue files apearing in my library even after restarting with *.CUE in the exluded list

Not sure why this happens. I haven't seen this behavior myself.

2) No iPod discoverable when connected and using iPod Manager (foo_dop) (My mac sees it but foobar doesn't)

Yes. Unfortunately wine does not support USB. There are several patches floating around which attempt to add USB support with varying degrees of success. At one point, someone was able to get earlier generation iPods to work with these patches and iTunes 7 I think. Awhile ago (before I released the latest version of the installer), I spent a day updating these patches to the latest version of Wine and trying to get it to recognize my iphone. I couldn't get it to work so I gave up Maybe someday the wine devs will make USB support more of a priority.

3) Crash on 'open containing folder' from selection (maybe I should make my library folder somewhere on the imaginary C drive. as the file path now says it's Z:\user\home\blah\blah)

Hmm.. I'll try this and see if I have problems. If there is an issue, it's likely a bug in Wine that I won't be able to fix (well, I could try to track it down and submit a patch, but I'm a bit too busy to hack on Wine these days...).