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foobar2000 for Mac / Re: foobar2000 for Mac: bugs
Last post by scannt -
I'm trying out the 2.25 preview 2025-05-14 version and I'd like to report a bug:
- if I try to map an action to a key in the Keyboard Shortcuts menu in Preferences, the popup dialog shows "Cannot map this combo" (seems to happens for any key combination or single key)... as this dialog cannot be dismissed without mapping a key, the only option is to kill the program (there's no valid key to map)

I'm on Apple M2 Pro and current macOS Sequoia version 15.5.
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Development - (fb2k) / Testing Windows ARM64EC components
Last post by Piotr Fusik -
I'd like to port my components to ARM64EC.
Building seems easy, but how to test? I thought I could test on my M1 Mac with Wine. Unfortunately, the foobar2000 installer for ARM says "Windows 11 or later Windows version is required to run foobar2000 (ARM64EC)". How does it check the Windows version?
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Biography Discussion
Last post by regor -
I have experienced the same with other tags and it probably has something to do with the XML scrapping code.

I may take a look at it, but don't expect too much... this script requires constant maintenance since it depends on an online service and I am not going to replace wilb. I guess someone else will have to continue this work in the future.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Very long image search (only with Linux / Foobar2000V2)
Last post by paregistrase -
If the filesystem is good (checked with disck scan) and the installation is fine (no missing dependencies or broken installs) Is always a good idea to start fresh when you hit the wall.

Tried to use the wine package from the official arch repos, not 3 party.

Make sure you have Enabled multilib

To enable multilib repository, uncomment the [multilib] section in /etc/pacman.conf:

/etc/pacman.conf

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Uninstall all wine and make sure that you choose it right and install al dependencies.

Make a new profile

env  WINEPREFIX=/home/<yourusername>/.wine-test wineboot -u

make a portable install

env WINEPREFIX=/home/<yourusername>/.wine-test wine <path to foobar 64 install exe>

run foobar with

env WINEPREFIX=/home/<yourusername>/.wine-test wine start /unix <path to foobar2000.exe>

To make a test of 32 bits

make a 32 profile

env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/<yourusername>/.wine-test-32 wineboot -u

install portable foobar 32

env WINEPREFIX=/home/<yourusername>/.wine-test-32 wine <path to foobar 32 install exe> (note that set WINEARCH is only necessary to create the 32 profile, once created is not needed)

env WINEPREFIX=/home/<yourusername>/.wine-test-32 wine start /unix <path to foobar2000 32 exe>

Now to use others wine that you can download

extract the zip to a directory

Inside you will find a folder named bin, in it there are the binaries of wine, winecfg, regedit, etc that you can run without instal or build anything

For example a 32 bit wine prefix with a wine-staging-tkg fr5om the page I point you

You extract to wine-staging-tkg folder

create a 32 prefix with this executable

env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/<username>/.wine-tkg-test-32 <path to the wine-staging-tkg folder>/bin/wineboot -u

now run your portable 32 installation with this prefix and the wine downloaded

env WINEPREFIX=/home/<username>/.wine-tkg-test-32 <path to the wine-staging-tkg folder>/bin/wine  start /unix <path to foobar2000 32 exe>

Tried to test different scenarios, maybe will would find where is the problem

The dynamic is always the same.

The portable installations (32 and 64) can be reused with different wine prefix and executables.

Once you have one combination that work making a desktop file to run it and you will be ready to rock

If find any problem feel free to ask.

It must work, I have had an Arch install until the release of ubuntu 25.04 working great.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Very long image search (only with Linux / Foobar2000V2)
Last post by AldiMp3 -
Your points rolled up from the back:

external hard disks / internal NVMe are still relatively new. My backup is on older hard disks. If the problems were there, everything would not be perfect under Windows and Linux 32-bit. After embedding, the images display is also lightning fast, even in 64-bit 2.25. A hardware error is therefore rather unlikely.

I already had arch following these instructions https://linux-bibel.at/index.php/2023/12/15/arch-linux-mit-archinstall-installieren/ on this computer and use it on an old Lenovo with the same packages (there partly from the AUR with YAY). It all takes much longer. I haven't used PARU yet, but I don't think it will beat YAY either.

I am also not so fond of the terminal (later graphical Linux entry), so that my tests with CachyOS, EndeavoursOS Garuda could not dissuade me from Manjaro. There, every system is completely and stably set up in just a few minutes. Nothing breaks all the time and is tested for 14 days longer. If I can get my favorite browser, my favorite game, my printer drivers, image and video editors, streaming service, music recognition, partition management, Wine and much more directly with a click from the standard without AUR, it's better than having to compile this at arch and look for a cable for the network installation beforehand. Of course, it is always interesting to see what Fedora Nobara PopOS Zorin is doing and where the old hands Mint, Debian, Ubuntu stand. I even looked at offshoots like siduction q4os or others without success. It's like Foobar. The old world is super stable, but nothing new is happening anymore. The new world takes time and doesn't always work as planned. There are just more errors.

Since other people here have also reported different performance problems in the new portable world (with simultaneous standard installation in the old world), I will now drop these completely and start with a fresh Foobar2000 2.25 64-bit portable. I can't do without KDE and Plasma 6, although I had forced myself to test the other graphical user interfaces, including Mabox, for months. Surprisingly, I don't find the settings in Plasma any more complex or memory-intensive than XFCE, for example. A lot is written that does not stand up to close analysis. Google makes an interesting AI summary between old and new Foobar2000. That makes me smile.

I agree the DIYway is the successful one, but if you haven't worked with opensuse or ubuntu since time immemorial, you won't find the terminal even as a Mint beginner. Essential applications such as Clonezilla can help, but even these take a simple graphical route with selection without typing. The command line reference has gone out of fashion and only helps developers to reach their goal faster.
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Library rescanning like 5x slower
Last post by Montchenot -
FLACs, MP3s, MP4s & MKVs.
Some video containers hold old AVIs, MPEGs & Flash just to tag these within the library (I use a Run Services script to trigger a portable VLC to play these).
Some regular flac files (2%} were logged as taking a long time to scan. Some incompatible notices about a few plain MPEGs.

BTW, I'm currently updating a lot of items using the standard Properties dialog (took the values to Notepad to replace some strings) and I'm seeing the Library as reading tags while the update is still being applied. (Hope there won't be overstepping errors like when converting within the library path.) Anyway, I had just left the computer alone while the library was reading tags right after updating to the new 2.5 preview
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Columns UI
Last post by musicmusic -
I had expected requests for menu commands for light and dark mode :) Probably a good candidate for 3.1.0.

Regarding transparency, I'm not sure I'd want to clutter the menu with that but I guess I have nothing against adding a hidden menu command for it.