Comments on: Foobar2000 under Wine in Ubuntu

By: joe

joe — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:19:24 +0000

i used foobar fpr many years @ windows and wouldn’t miss it.
thx for your easy to-do. works fine.
thumbs up.

By: sonicdesssoni

sonicdesssoni — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:59:51 +0000

I absolutely agree. I’ve been thinking about switching to linux for past 6 years, but a lack of a fast and user-friendly software for playing my vast music collection prevented me from using linux for longer than a week.
I am a foobar2000 addict, as are millions of music lovers around the world.

By: fallback2shucks

fallback2shucks — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:33:52 +0000

Next, irony is too cleverly disguised (or is it…?). And we fall back.

Why noone has made a player as versatile and lightweight as foobar2k in the FOSS-World is a mind-boggling enigma to me. Sure, Amarok is versatile, but not lightweight. And there are tons of good player for Linux that are lightweight and versatile to a degree, but i still think none of these matches what foobar2k does with its plugin-api, the window-manager-like aproach to the frontend (ie. ColumnsUI or DefaultUI), the lightningfast database and search, and the ability to handle libraries as big as $%#$@%…Not to mention the myriads of input and output plugins and so on and so forth. And for all these features is it any wonder that audio enthusiasts choose foobar? now they are probably mostly at home in windows, for lack of expertise or lack of need to change… but when I want a better OS, why not take the best player with me, instead of settling with a linux and FOSS solution that can do some things great and has never heard of others…but we fall back <.<

and to this day, it is my opinion that the programmers lack of a need to have a organised, feature rich music db, and the music lovers lack of programming skills is the one big obstacle to bring something as great as foobar to the FOSS world.

of course, you can always hope! (or learn to code^^)

By: oelewapperke

oelewapperke — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:14:51 +0000

Windows applications invade our computers running windows. And we fall back.

Next wine gets created. And we fall back.

Now they invade our linux computers ! And we fall back.

No more !

The line must be drawn HERE !

By: Man

Man — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:18:14 +0000

Day-By-Day
Things like foobar invade the Linux Land … aka Lala Land, and no one takes notice. Soon we will be overrun by WiWis and wont what to do.

Then it will be too late to save us all from the Wiwis when they invade Lala Land and the purity and innocence of all our children and land will be defiled by the Wiwis with their foobar 2000!

Is nothing sacred anymore ?

Is there someone to save Lala from Foo?

By: michuk

michuk — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:53:42 +0000

ipod can’t be destroyed. it’s defective by design

By: exodus

exodus — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:04:28 +0000

bah @ foobar. it destroyed my ipod.

By: tumb

tumb — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:09:41 +0000

Small correction required!

“…Wine (Windows API Linux emulator)…”

Wine = “Wine Is NOT an Emulator”

Wine is an application layer.