I fairly recently started using an OS X laptop as my main computer (away from home for a year - OS X made more sense, as I needed access to Final Cut Pro/Shake and others, for work)

Anyway, I decided to try and find a last.fm plugin for iTunes - I tried a few (ScrobbePod and iScrobbler), both similar to the last.fm offical client (Which I don't like).

Nothing compared to my incredibly unobtrusive Foobar2000 plugin, which sat in the background, in a client minimized to the system tray - silently submitting songs and nothing more..

Which got me thinking - Foobar2k can run under DarWINE, but from the other OS X/WINE-related post on this forum, it seems there's no sound, which is slightly point-defeating.. The DarWINE site confirms the "no sound support" issue.

So I give up on that for a while, and keep trying to get used to the ScrobblePod/iScrobbler, which are unnecessarily complicated and unreliable (iScrobbler still doesn't seem able to submit any songs. There's about 15 queued up, and I can't get them to send.. ScrobblePod keeps giving a "Handshake Timed out" error, but eventually submits tracks)
I try finding a simple last.fm plugin for iTunes and can't find anything.

Then, somehow I stumble across a page saying if you add

To the file ~/.wine/user.reg (it's hidden, either use Finder > Go to Folder, and type ~/.wine/, or use the terminal and vim, or type 'open ~/.wine/')
The ~ symbol means your home folder, so if your username is bob, it'll be under /Users/bob/.wine/user.reg

And.. sound works! Yes, that was a slightly long story for one line, but erm, I was bored.

There were other problems in getting DarWINE to work correctly - The biggest one I remember was I had to install the FreeType libaries using fink or DarwinPorts, and link them to /usr/lib/ (http://forums.macnn.com/104/alternative-op...e-font-library/

Any other problems you have can generally be sorted by Google'ing the error (copy the error, remove and paths and possibly specific version numbers, and you should find a solution - That's how I sorted all the problems I had with it )



To summarize:
If you have Foobar2000 running in WINE correctly, but no sound, simply add:


..to the bottom of the file ~/.wine/user.reg and Foobar should pick up the driver and automatically use it


And proof (of sorts: you can't really screenshot sound - but I assure you it's working)


Now I just need to restore my Foobar configs and I'll be happy. The fact it runs in X11 is a pain, and that's it's biggest drawback at the moment, but it's really unavoidable until the DarWINE people work out a way to run WINE apps under the OS X UI (A big rewrite).
There's a few UI redrawing problems on the track-progress bar - again, a problem caused by X11, albeit a negligible one.

Anyway, hope this is of some use to OS X users who miss Foobar
- Ben

Thanks, this may come in handy. Still worried about switching to mac.

Any idea if foobar plugins would work? I'm using the convolver plugin and might even *purchase* parallels and install XP just to get a working foobar app in mac os!

Also, you know how foobar remembers the last track played in the playlist, and next time you open foobar it starts playing from that track? Does this work in your Darwine implementation?

Thank you dbr for this piece of info. However, I still have no sound in DarWine although I checked that the specified line is indeed there in my "user.reg" file... Would you mind giving me some more details, like the other sound options you used (in the DirectSound frame) like audio sample rate, bits per sample, etc... ? And also your Darwine version and what system/processor you're running under ? I'm using Darwine 0.9.27 on a PowerPC MacMini under X.4.11... Thanks and happy new year !

I can report that foobar2000 0.9.5.4 works 100% right out of the box (yes, sound too) with the stable Darwine version available from here. I ran the 0.9.5.4 installer from within Darwine and started foobar2000 and sound "just worked".