Foobar2000

[hkjz]

I saw on Ubuntu, that in respository there is a Foobar2000,

but no idea how to install it on MX Linux,
any ideas?

[cyrilus31]

It seems from this thread that it works with Wine. An other thread discuss Foobar Snap.

Except if you miss some features there are many great alternatives in Linux world.

[j2mcgreg]

I doubt that it's possible. The foobar2000 website shows that it is available for Windows, Android and Ios but there are no binaries listed for Linux and there is no listing for it in Synaptic.

[thomasl]

foobar2000 is a Windows app that will run on wine. I think those packages you see for Ubuntu are snap packages with all the required bits (ie wine and foobar2000 in one install). If you're talking about such a package then have a look at this, for instance:
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/201 ... ntu-16-04/

There has also been a thread about this: viewtopic.php?t=48002

I have wine-staging installed (not as a snap package, I'm not a fan of these things) and have foobar2000 running on it. It's working flawlessly and everything that I tried works as it does on Windows. YMMV.

[hkjz]

Thank you for answers

[hkjz]

It seems that
DeedBeef (horror name) is a music player which eventually can work as a good alternative to Foobar2000

https://alternativeto.net/software/foob ... form=linux
https://www.maketecheasier.com/deadbeef ... c-library/

[Jerry3904]

Deadbeef is a terrific player, and we have a very recent release in MX Test Repo

[radonrose]

Seeing how this turned into a "foobar2000 alternatives thread"... Could you upload a screenshot of what your foobar2000 looks like (I guess you were using it on Windows), and what features you couldn't live without?

I used to run foobar2000 in a minimalist tabbed configuration a long time ago, and was excited to know that Audacious and DeaDBeeF do exactly that on Linux*. I'm not a fan of "library organizers", and prefer to manually organize my files into directories. Both Audacious and especially DeaDBeeF support several plugins to make them work better with a music library. I've seen both of them customized to an extensive point, so totally go with if you feel like experimenting.

Amarok, Clementine, and Strawberry** look more like the "complete" foobar2000 UI out of the box, but they are not as modular as DeaDBeeF.

*Audacious was still a Winamp clone at the time, but it had a non-Winamp skin which is the default nowadays.
**Clementine is a fork of Amarok. Strawberry is a fork of Clementine.