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Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2009-12-25 21:36:29
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 (http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/foobar2000_1.0_osx.dmg).

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:

(http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/installer1.png)
(http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/installer2.png)
(http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/installer3.png)
(http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/fb2k.png)

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.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Atlantis on 2009-12-26 02:02:49
WOW, thanks a lot!
fb2k was the only piece of software I missed from windows... until now  and itunes, cog, picoplay and a couple other players weren't as good as fb2k.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Atlantis on 2009-12-28 20:36:18
works like a charm
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: carmenm on 2009-12-28 23:44:12
Very nice will need to test it as soon as possible.
One quesiton, does anyone sees a way to get rid of the X11 terminal window. I know we need X11 but maybe there is a way to completely hide that window...

Thanks
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2009-12-29 08:08:48
Updated to 1.0 beta 6.  Please see note #2 if you already installed 1.0 beta 5.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2009-12-29 08:12:44
One quesiton, does anyone sees a way to get rid of the X11 terminal window. I know we need X11 but maybe there is a way to completely hide that window...


XTerm should only show up if you load X11 manually.  If you just double click on the foobar2000.app, it will launch X11.app automatically and not pop up XTerm.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: carmenm on 2009-12-29 10:10:05
Nice, will try it as soon as possible.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: callisto on 2009-12-29 17:05:35
if you want to hide X11 from the dock you can try Dockless (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12516) (but since the foobar2000.app has no menubar and instead uses it from X11 which is hidden as well, there will be some flaws... well just try and see for yourself)
edit: nice bundle btw
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: frogworth on 2009-12-30 12:25:02
Hi, just to check, I see in the installation screenshots that you have "Audio CD support" there - but I haven't been able to get Wine to have direct access to the optical drives - or USB devices for that matter.

So, does your method actually give foobar2000 the ability to rip Audio CDs? Even better, I don't suppose it has access to USB devices (so I can use foo_dop to sync my iPhone/iPod)?
I'm using foobar in VMware Fusion and have it pretty well integrated, but this would be even better integrated in some ways, and wouldn't require running a whole virtual operating system! However, these two limitations of Wine have stopped me being able to do it, so I'm pretty interested in what you've done!

Of course a native OSX foobar2000.app would be awesome, but I totally understand why Peter & co are not interested :/
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Brainbug on 2009-12-30 13:13:16
... Of course a native OSX foobar2000.app would be awesome, but I totally understand why Peter & co are not interested :/

sorry, i don´t.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2009-12-30 22:39:34
Hi, just to check, I see in the installation screenshots that you have "Audio CD support" there - but I haven't been able to get Wine to have direct access to the optical drives - or USB devices for that matter.

So, does your method actually give foobar2000 the ability to rip Audio CDs?


Sorry, but no.  In the updated version I uploaded, I removed the Audio CD support component.  I just didn't update the screenshots.

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Of course a native OSX foobar2000.app would be awesome, but I totally understand why Peter & co are not interested :/


I think it would be nice to have a native foobar2000.app for OS X too, but to do it properly would take a fair amount of work.  I don't think there are many technical reasons why it couldn't happen, but at least one practical reason is that (to my knowledge) Peter doesn't have access to a Mac for development purposes.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: frogworth on 2009-12-31 01:26:34
Sorry, but no.  In the updated version I uploaded, I removed the Audio CD support component.  I just didn't update the screenshots.

Ah well, I did wonder. I guess I'll stick with my virtual computer then - it works fine really, even if it's overkill.

I think it would be nice to have a native foobar2000.app for OS X too, but to do it properly would take a fair amount of work.  I don't think there are many technical reasons why it couldn't happen, but at least one practical reason is that (to my knowledge) Peter doesn't have access to a Mac for development purposes.

Yeah, I'd be interested in just how much work it would be. I don't know anything about the components API and where on the grade from totally unfeasible to pretty straightforward the issue of re-compiling components would go, for instance - having a native OS foobar2000.app would be all very well, but most of us rely on a whole bunch of components as well...

Oh well, we can continue to hope. If it were a matter of donating to a "get Peter a Mac" fund, I'm sure we'd find enough in no time
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Althalus on 2009-12-31 01:40:01
Thank you Dibrom.
Didn't use it much yet, but so far it's been working well.

Thanks
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: adrift on 2010-01-08 16:59:48
Hello all. My first post here. Is this still being worked on? Pretty amazing stuff. Been waiting for something like this for awhile. I did receive an error when installing this on my Mac though.
(http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8075/picture1muk.png)

I don't know where the components folder is to add components and I'm wondering if that error has anything to do with that.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-09 03:27:16
I'm still maintaining it for the time being, yes.

Can you give me more information about your system?  What version of Mac OS X are you running?

The components folder is described on the last page of the install.  It wont exist until after the install has completed.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: adrift on 2010-01-09 17:17:09
I'm still maintaining it for the time being, yes.

Can you give me more information about your system?  What version of Mac OS X are you running?


Thank you for taking the time to reply. I'm running OS X version 10.5.8 on a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook with 2 GB of ram. I recently reinstalled OS X and plan on upgrading to Snow Leopard soon. Let me know if you need to know anything else.


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The components folder is described on the last page of the install.  It wont exist until after the install has completed.


Oh ok. Oddly enough, Foobar2000 is installed on my machine even with the error. I can open it and configure it, but as I mentioned I can't find the component folder. Also, just so you're aware, though I've had this machine for about a year now, I'm not really what I would call proficient with OS X though I can work myself through just about anything with a decent set of instructions.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Oedipax on 2010-01-11 02:55:41
Thanks so much for this - works great for me on 10.6.2.

A few questions - if I open up the Foobar2000 package contents and navigate to the Foobar directory, can I just replace the Foobar .exe with the official 1.0 and future updates, or does there need to be a new custom build for each release?

Also, does anyone know a good OSX app for adding universal hotkeys to any program? If I could get universal hotkeys working with this build of Foobar I could pretty much ditch iTunes completely for music.

Thanks again.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-11 16:00:40
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I'm running OS X version 10.5.8 on a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook with 2 GB of ram. I recently reinstalled OS X and plan on upgrading to Snow Leopard soon. Let me know if you need to know anything else.


Hmm, well I'm not sure what the problem is.  If you were using an earlier version of OS X (10.4 or earlier), that might be problem, but since you aren't, I don't know.

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The components folder is described on the last page of the install.  It wont exist until after the install has completed.


Oh ok. Oddly enough, Foobar2000 is installed on my machine even with the error. I can open it and configure it, but as I mentioned I can't find the component folder. Also, just so you're aware, though I've had this machine for about a year now, I'm not really what I would call proficient with OS X though I can work myself through just about anything with a decent set of instructions.


Well you should be able to access the folder by going to ~/Library/Application Support/Wine/prefixes/foobar2000/drive_c/Program Files/foobar2000/components.

My guess is that the error you saw meant that there was some problem writing additional components to that directory.  The way the installer works is that only installs core and the standard input components to that directory first, and then installs the rest depending on whether and how you choose to customize the install.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-11 16:05:04
Thanks so much for this - works great for me on 10.6.2.

A few questions - if I open up the Foobar2000 package contents and navigate to the Foobar directory, can I just replace the Foobar .exe with the official 1.0 and future updates, or does there need to be a new custom build for each release?


This will work, but you will need to delete your ~/Library/Application Support/Wine/prefixes/foobar2000 directory first.  That directory acts sort of like a cache for the contents of the foobar2000.app.  Alternatively, you could just copy the updated stuff directly to that location instead.

Sometime in the next few days I plan to update the bundle to 1.0 though.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: saiai on 2010-01-11 16:35:24
Well you should be able to access the folder by going to ~/Library/Application Support/Wine/prefixes/foobar2000/drive_c/Program Files/foobar2000/components.

My guess is that the error you saw meant that there was some problem writing additional components to that directory.  The way the installer works is that only installs core and the standard input components to that directory first, and then installs the rest depending on whether and how you choose to customize the install.

Hello, first off, thanks for this excellent package. Works well on OS X 10.6.2, no stuttering, but Unicode characters were showing up as boxes. Fixed it by forcing the default font to Osaka.

Anyways, I couldn't find the Wine folder in Application Support either, it only showed up when I ran foobar.app for the first time and wine set itself up. I think that's the problem, you have to run the app atleast once.

A small tip, if you want to use your iTunes music, add "Z:\Users\YOUR_NAME\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music" to the media library. Changing YOUR_NAME to whatever it is for your home folder, of course.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: adrift on 2010-01-13 01:00:26
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I'm running OS X version 10.5.8 on a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook with 2 GB of ram. I recently reinstalled OS X and plan on upgrading to Snow Leopard soon. Let me know if you need to know anything else.


Hmm, well I'm not sure what the problem is.  If you were using an earlier version of OS X (10.4 or earlier), that might be problem, but since you aren't, I don't know.

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The components folder is described on the last page of the install.  It wont exist until after the install has completed.


Oh ok. Oddly enough, Foobar2000 is installed on my machine even with the error. I can open it and configure it, but as I mentioned I can't find the component folder. Also, just so you're aware, though I've had this machine for about a year now, I'm not really what I would call proficient with OS X though I can work myself through just about anything with a decent set of instructions.


Well you should be able to access the folder by going to ~/Library/Application Support/Wine/prefixes/foobar2000/drive_c/Program Files/foobar2000/components.

My guess is that the error you saw meant that there was some problem writing additional components to that directory.  The way the installer works is that only installs core and the standard input components to that directory first, and then installs the rest depending on whether and how you choose to customize the install.


Dibrom, I just wanted to thank you again for your help. I think your above advice was probably accurate, but since last I posted I've updated to Snow Leopard and reinstalled Foobar2000 with no issues. Hopefully my previous issues will help out others.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: e_l_m_o on 2010-01-13 11:34:22
There is a place for a good player like foobar on Mac OS X

I talk about a "native" os x app.

Mac is such a good solution for musicians (not only listeners).  The macmini and macbook are soo quiet, stable, fast and simple to use.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: knucklehead on 2010-01-13 19:34:20
I have zero familiarity with foobar, and near zero with PCs.

I did a standard install, which went smoothly.

One thing I can identify as a problem, is the equalizer comes up as a blank window of seemingly infinite width. It doesn't respond to the close button.

The help files aren't showing up either. Other than that I'm just blindly poking around at it, and don't know what to expect or look for.

I followed this:

A small tip, if you want to use your iTunes music, add "Z:\Users\YOUR_NAME\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music" to the media library. Changing YOUR_NAME to whatever it is for your home folder, of course.


and it spent a long time indexing my iTunes files. Has this altered - or tagged - my iTunes library? The files did not show up in the foobar window.
I'm basically happy with iTunes for my music management, and am just checking out foobar out of curiosity - don't want to mess things up out of ignorance.

The main thing I'm looking for in foobar is the ABX tool which I thought was part of it. Am I mistaken, just not finding it , or is it currently missing?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Slotos on 2010-01-13 19:41:50
The good thing about foobar is "no automagic". Unless you tell it to do something it won't do anything with your files. Well, some third-party components may not follow this rule.

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx (http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx)
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: smkk on 2010-01-13 19:44:11
and it spent a long time indexing my iTunes files. Has this altered - or tagged - my iTunes library?

Unlike iTunes foobar does not alter your files without user interaction.

The files did not show up in the foobar window.

The files should show up in your library viewer, be it album list or facets. They do not automatically get added to a playlist.

The main thing I'm looking for in foobar is the ABX tool which I thought was part of it. Am I mistaken, just not finding it , or is it currently missing?

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx (http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx)
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: knucklehead on 2010-01-13 21:37:57
The main thing I'm looking for in foobar is the ABX tool which I thought was part of it. Am I mistaken, just not finding it , or is it currently missing?

http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx (http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx)


Got it working. Thanks!

I think a few people have been waiting for something like this.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: mustermann88 on 2010-01-21 15:29:47
Just wanted to push this Thread as i really interested in this solution.
I'm planning to switch to a mac really soon and discovered this great Music Player (foobar). After some research, I was able to tune up the soundquality and i was experiencing more fun.
The fact is that iTunes suck, if you talk about the sound and i'm not going to use it, because i simply cant get that sound which i wanna have.

Will this solution support plugins for foobar?

thank you for your work
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-21 20:28:41
Another Mac user here also looking forward to trying this out, as I was using FB2K for the last couple of years on my PC which recently died. Like another user in this thread I am currently running FB2K via VMWare Fusion, and as any dual-boot Mac user knows, the laptop starts to burn up like crazy with Windows running virtually. With my massive music collection and high res artwork for most albums, you can imagine how uncomfortably hot the laptop gets running FB2K virtually.

However there are two major things that will determine if I keep using Fusion or switch to this: will it see my external FW800 drive that contains my music collection? And can you install 3rd party components and custom themes like you would on the PC version? Thanks in advance...
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: callisto on 2010-01-22 00:12:34
I have a setup with crossover, so it's basically the same. Running for about 1,5 years now...

My music collection is on a FW400 drive, which works all fine! (except automatic library update, only updates on startup of fb2k)
As for the 3rd party components, Columns UI and foo_audioscrobbler are working as expected. More I do not need and cannot say anything about, but just try them out! I guess most plugins will work, exept those which have dependencies on .net or something like that...

screenshot (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/Callistou/foobar2000/foobar2000_xover.png) (CUI with NG playlist)

Have a good day,
callisto
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-22 00:40:30
Good to know. Just installed the app, and Dibrom, I got the same error message as another user in this thread (could not find files in the /components folder), I'm also running 10.5.8. However it did install successfully despite the error message and I'm using FB2K right now. I haven't loaded my library into it yet, but based on how it's performing now it looks like I will be good to go. Thanks for your work in developing this bundle! Took a lot of guesswork out of it for me and many others I'm sure.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-22 04:07:49
Darn, FB2K/Wine can't see my attached FW800 drive. Is there a Wine setting I can modify to look for external drives?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-22 10:57:27
Will this solution support plugins for foobar?


Yes, plugins work fine.  You just have to follow the directions given during the installer to find out where to put the files.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-22 10:59:16
However there are two major things that will determine if I keep using Fusion or switch to this: will it see my external FW800 drive that contains my music collection? And can you install 3rd party components and custom themes like you would on the PC version? Thanks in advance...


It should, and yes.

There are a few extra dependencies you might need for some plugins (WSH, .NET, etc.).
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-22 11:01:07
Darn, FB2K/Wine can't see my attached FW800 drive. Is there a Wine setting I can modify to look for external drives?


If your drive is already mounted under Mac OS X, Wine should see it just fine.  It's not going to show up with a special drive letter though.  It should be listed somewhere under /Volumes.  Try looking there.

For example, your normal hard drive can also be accessed from "/Volumes/Macintosh HD".
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-22 15:43:24
Ah, I see where it is... when configuring the Media Library it was ultimately under a Z: drive path... great, everything working nice
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: callisto on 2010-01-22 18:27:31
sry I could have given more details in that point, good that you figured it out!
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-22 19:42:25
sry I could have given more details in that point, good that you figured it out!

No worries, appreciate the input! I am extremely excited to not have to launch Fusion every time I want to listen to my FLAC collection! Whee....

Unrelated to the above... one slightly disappointing thing is the album art display quality - I'm using the latest Columns UI build and everything is pretty jagged at low sizes. Any other components recommended for album art?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-23 13:04:52
Unrelated to the above... one slightly disappointing thing is the album art display quality - I'm using the latest Columns UI build and everything is pretty jagged at low sizes. Any other components recommended for album art?


You need to have the native gdiplus dll installed for it to look nicer.  If I get some time this weekend, I'll try to update the bundle and include that and some other tweaks.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Squeller on 2010-01-23 13:28:06
It's good to allow easier access to fb2k on the MacOS platform. I'm not a Mac user, but thanks anyway
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-24 05:26:34
one last question - and this is probably more of a FB2K behavior in general than anything specifically related to this OS X bundle - but it seems every time I launch FB2K, it re-indexes my entire music collection, which lives on an external FW800 drive. (This is after fully ejecting the FW drive, turning off the laptop, turning it back on and launching FB2K). at 500 GBs you can guess how long that takes... is this something I can prevent from happening?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: callisto on 2010-01-24 17:41:57
does not happen here. did you let it index completely at the first time?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-24 18:05:29
you know what it probably was - i didn't close fb2k properly after the first index - i think i shut down X11 or Wine instead. after shutting it down properly, this morning my collection was still intact. well, that's good to know... i need to be careful
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-24 18:46:14
You need to have the native gdiplus dll installed for it to look nicer.  If I get some time this weekend, I'll try to update the bundle and include that and some other tweaks.


Great. Will this dll enable the reflection effect on artwork thumbnails displayed in the NG Playlist?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: callisto on 2010-01-24 19:11:31
yes, look at my screenshot (few posts up)
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-25 18:06:36
yes, look at my screenshot (few posts up)

Cool, looks good. Where did you download the DLL, and what folder do you place it in?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: callisto on 2010-01-25 19:36:13
just google "gdiplus.dll". first hit should be a .dll download site.
you have to place it in "system32" folder... I believe it should be somewhere under ~/Library/Application Support/Wine/ or somewhere in the application-bundle
(cannot say this for sure, because of my slightly different setup.)
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-25 22:45:13
Strange, I already have gdiplus.dll in my system32 folder. And based on the Date Modified field in Finder, it was accessed as recently as a few days ago when I last used fb2k. Why then would the graphic display still be so jagged?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Suit_Of_Sables on 2010-01-26 05:30:31
I had foobar2000 working for awhile but now it won't open and I get an error message about the "beta version being over 4 weeks old"
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-26 13:41:23
I had foobar2000 working for awhile but now it won't open and I get an error message about the "beta version being over 4 weeks old"


I updated it to 1.0, so it should be fine now.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-26 13:43:16
Strange, I already have gdiplus.dll in my system32 folder.
[...]
Why then would the graphic display still be so jagged?


Because the gdiplus.dll you see is the Wine version, not the native Windows version.  The Wine version's emulation isn't complete, which is why some things don't work as well or look as nice.

Anyway, this is fixed in the version I just uploaded.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: callisto on 2010-01-26 15:49:01
so you just included the windows version of gdiplus.dll instead in the new version?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: steagle on 2010-01-26 16:04:03
I tried installing the new 1.0 package, I still get the same error message during installation (could not write to the components directory), but now I can't launch fb2k at all, even with X11 running.
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Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-26 16:05:23
@steagle

Can you try deleting your old installation first?

Just remove ~/Library/Applications Support/Wine.

Make sure you've backed up your foobar2000 settings first of course.

If that doesn't work, can you give me more details on what happens when you try to load the bundle?  If it crashes, do you see any log files related to foobar2000 in ~/Library/Logs or ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter?  You might also try repairing your disk permissions with Disk Utility if you still see the same error message during install.
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Post by: steagle on 2010-01-26 16:24:24
That did the trick, thanks Dibrom. Just for reference, here's that error message I get during installation - does it have something to do with the fact that a foobar2000 application is installed in both my user folder as well as ~/Applications?

"Install Failed. The Installer could not install some files in "/Users/steagle/Applications/foobar2000.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/foobar2000/components". Contact the software manufacturer for assistance."
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-26 16:30:13
~ is just an alias for /Users/steagle so it's not really installed in more than one location.

I'm not sure why you are seeing that error.  I've never encountered it on any of the systems I've installed on.  What OS are you running?  I think the installer requires at least 10.5.

You could try loading Disk Utility, selecting "Macintosh HD", and clicking Repair Disk Permissions to see if that helps.  It's kind of unlikely, but you never know.
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Post by: steagle on 2010-01-26 16:35:05
I had repaired disk permissions before I got v1.0 up and running, so we're good to go there... and I'm on 10.5.8. Weird. Well, it does install properly and that's all that matters.
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Post by: steagle on 2010-01-26 16:57:29
btw it also bears mentioning I did not see the installation screen where you can check and uncheck options, the second screenshot you posted.
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Post by: rpp3po on 2010-01-27 00:43:22
Is there any documentation about how Wine taps into OS X's audio system? For example, does 32-bit float output stay 32-bit float?
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Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-27 01:43:42
From what I can see, I don't think Wine supports anything other than 8-bit and 16-bit output.  Even if it does possibly support it with some audio frameworks, it doesn't seem to with the CoreAudio driver.

See CoreAudio_WaveInit:
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=b...dio.drv/audio.c (http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=blob;f=dlls/winecoreaudio.drv/audio.c)

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Post by: Suit_Of_Sables on 2010-01-27 21:44:07
Is anyone else noticing a problem with the library's folder monitoring? Namely that it doesn't work. I also find bogus tracks that won't play which the locator tells me are coming from a .cue file even though I have *.CUE in the excluded list in the library config.
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Post by: callisto on 2010-01-27 22:04:39
I already pointed out, that monitoring does not work! It only updates the library on startup.
Did you restart, after excluding the .cue files from you library?
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Post by: m5bv on 2010-01-28 02:58:11
Thanks for the work on this.  It's certainly the best solution for OSX.

I would like to install it myself.  Can you post the steps you took to install and configure Wine with Foobar2000?
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Post by: steagle on 2010-01-28 06:02:32
Thanks for the work on this.  It's certainly the best solution for OSX.

agreed! so nice not having to load up a virtual machine for music playback  three cheers for dibrom!
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Post by: ebat on 2010-01-28 18:28:59
@ http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/fb2k.png (http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/fb2k.png)

What is the name of this scheme?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: akabusi on 2010-01-28 18:31:00
just wanted to say thanks SO much for making this Dibrom! after recently changing to mac, I didn't realise how much I'd miss foobar!

I have a couple of queries about it though:

when I double-click an mp3 (or other foobar compatible format) in Finder, and Foobar hasn't already been launched it opens as supposed to.
but when it's already running and I double click, no file gets added.
foobar2000 returns to being the app in 'focus' after though so the double click appears to be doing something.
darg and drop doesn't work either.

I suspect these things could be related too:
the 3rd installation screenshot you pasted didn't appear for me (someone mentioned this earlier too) so I couldn't choose file associations
I've noticed in the preferences it says that it's running in portable mode, is this normal?

also I changed the install location from 'just for me' to the HDD for all, is this wrong? please tell me if I've been a numbskull somewhere so I can get this running as it used to on windows!

off to get the last.fm plugin setup in the meantime, awiiight! thanks again!

Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Dibrom on 2010-01-28 19:16:09
the 3rd installation screenshot you pasted didn't appear for me (someone mentioned this earlier too) so I couldn't choose file associations
I've noticed in the preferences it says that it's running in portable mode, is this normal?


Setting file associations is not a part of the installer for the app bundle.

I usually don't try to open files from finder in this way so I've never spent much time looking into the issue.  Wine integration with OS X is not that great though, unfortunately.  I'm not surprised drag and drop doesn't really work either.  If I have time, I might look into these issues a little but I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you.

Crossover might work better for these things but I don't know.  It's not free though.

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also I changed the install location from 'just for me' to the HDD for all, is this wrong? please tell me if I've been a numbskull somewhere so I can get this running as it used to on windows!


No, it's perfectly fine to install it either way.  Since I usually like to keep my multiple accounts pretty separate, I usually only install things to ~/Applications which is why I defaulted the installer to do the same.
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Post by: callisto on 2010-01-28 21:24:20
@ http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/fb2k.png (http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/fb2k.png)

What is the name of this scheme?

Some custom CUI setup with EL Playlist... kinda off-topic though, try asking here: Columns UI appearance thread (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63984)
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Post by: akabusi on 2010-01-29 18:07:26
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!
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Post by: Suit_Of_Sables on 2010-01-31 04:03:29
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
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Post by: gfxnow on 2010-02-06 06:53:23
This should be a sticky!
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Post by: rpp3po on 2010-02-06 16:25:58
Dibrom, I just gave your package a try and it is great! Thank you very much! I have integrated NeroAACenc and ALAC decoding, to use Foobar as an encoder front-end, and it just flies! Much higher speed than through VMware, which still has problems with multi-core utilization.

Your .app is much better than my own trials with Wine in the past. I always had terrible speed for file selection dialogs and the general graphical experience was also sluggish. Of course, the new installer is also much more convenient. It shouldn't require administrator privileges, since it only writes to user directories, though. But that's negligible.
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Post by: Dibrom on 2010-02-07 14:54:57
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.

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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.

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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...).
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Post by: Dibrom on 2010-02-07 14:56:44
It shouldn't require administrator privileges, since it only writes to user directories, though. But that's negligible.


I agree.  I'm not sure how to fix this though.  I spent some time digging around in PackageMaker but couldn't find a way around it.  Maybe I'll take another look next time I make a release.
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Post by: Yirkha on 2010-02-15 01:55:50
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3) Crash on 'open containing folder' from selection
Long known, wine doesn't emulate [font= "Courier New"]SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems()[/font] in any way and simply throws a stub exception.
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Post by: adrift on 2010-04-09 19:14:27
So... whatever happened to this project? I thought it was  a great idea of course.. Recently I was trying to play some files with my copy and i received a message telling me my version of Foobar2000 had expired.
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Post by: tniasni on 2010-04-11 17:29:53
amazing! do keyboardshortcuts work? and scripting? if so, i ll be able to buy a mac.
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Post by: kode54 on 2010-04-11 18:40:59
amazing! do keyboardshortcuts work? and scripting? if so, i ll be able to buy a mac.

Knowing wine from experience, global keyboard shortcuts do not work at all. I don't think AppleScript automation works either, unless invoking the foobar2000 application with the correct command line switches works like Windows. (Or like invoking the foobar2000.exe with wine under Linux or FreeBSD. I'm not sure how it works when it's an App bundle like this.)
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Post by: tniasni on 2010-04-12 20:02:30
is there any way to get shortcuts working?

i understand that some people are using a virtual computer to run foobar on mac, as stated on the first page of this thread.
do global keyboard work with that?

would the apple remote work?


the thing is, i am planning on buying a new computer, either mac or pc. and i'm basing my decision almost purely on the foobar-factor. pretty ridiculous but i just love foobar's efficiency.






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Post by: suanczan on 2010-04-29 12:45:08
Is it possible to get drag&drop work? I'm using Crossover and foobar2000 works fine besides d&d
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Post by: frogworth on 2010-04-30 10:59:10
is there any way to get shortcuts working?

i understand that some people are using a virtual computer to run foobar on mac, as stated on the first page of this thread.
do global keyboard work with that?

would the apple remote work?

the thing is, i am planning on buying a new computer, either mac or pc. and i'm basing my decision almost purely on the foobar-factor. pretty ridiculous but i just love foobar's efficiency.


If you don't care, I'd get a PC.
I get a lot out of my Mac, but can't do without foobar, so I'm running XP in VMware Fusion purely in order to use foobar  Although it also means I always have a PC for testing things, plugging in NTFS drives etc.

So. I get the global shortcuts working through a combination of stupid things. I still haven't got the "skip forward/backward 10 secs" feature working but don't really mind.
I use foo_httpcontrol, which is way cool anyway. With it setup, you can request a URL like:
Code: [Select]
http://192.168.56.138:8888/default/?cmd=StartNext&param1=

where the IP address is the IP address of the virtual machine (this may work fine in Wine - maybe even with localhost? Not sure)
This will skip to the next track, obvs.

With that information, I write an AppleScript that requests that URL:

Code: [Select]
do shell script "/opt/local/bin/wget -qO /dev/null http://192.168.56.138:8888/default/?cmd=StartNext&param1="


using wget, sending the output to /dev/null - because we don't actually want to view the page, just get the command sent to foobar.

So how do you trigger these AppleScripts? Well, after a few different attempts at things, I now use a program called Spark (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22675) to assign shortcuts to AppleScripts - it's more powerful than that, but you can write the AppleScripts in its own config, which is nice - it's not looking them up from a file or running an app or anything.

Even better, I then use the awesomest program for MacBooks, BetterTouchTool (http://blog.boastr.net/), to trigger those shortcuts with custom multi-touch trackpad gestures. Actually I really only use the trackpad gestures in foobar though.

So... it's convoluted but it works. There may be a better (more direct) option than foo_httpcontrol, which requires wget to access the URLs. And for some reason the command-line syntax for skipping 10 secs forward/back hasn't worked for me with foo_httpcontrol, so I'd be interested in sorting that out too sometime.
Drawbacks: sometimes the AppleScripts don't trigger immediately, so it's not a perfect solution. Mostly works fine though - OSX simply doesn't have a built-in solution for global hotkeys; one of the many bloody-mindedly stupid things that Apple and Macfans cling to ("why would you want to do that?")

Oh, and, no reason the Apple Remote wouldn't work if it works in Windows...
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Post by: Pboden on 2010-05-26 11:43:45
Just registrated to hopefully get an answer to my problem.

I can not seem to get the plugins to work in my version. The two plugins (and most importains) is the Kernel streming support and the foo_touchremote and they are both copied to the components folder according.

Any suggestions of what the problem is ?
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Post by: callisto on 2010-05-26 12:26:26
I do not know both of the components but it seems that they may have windows dependencies you cannot privode with this setup.
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Post by: Pboden on 2010-05-26 12:52:36
I do not know both of the components but it seems that they may have windows dependencies you cannot privode with this setup.



Windows dependencies? Ok...but where other than http://www.foobar2000.org/components (http://www.foobar2000.org/components) do I download the plugins for the Foobar mac version ? 
Basiclly I need a bypassing streming plugin and the possibility to add a remote unit, like the iphone/ipad etc.
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Post by: callisto on 2010-05-26 23:00:13
There is no Mac version of foobar2000, so there is no support or "mac-plugins". The App-Bundle here is a work-around with WINE to get it work on a Mac (or Linux). look at the post before yours, maybe this can help with your need for remote control. why do you need this "streaming-plugin" (what's that anyways?)?
Otherwise I would suggest to use a native mac music player (like iTunes or Play)...

regards,
callisto
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Post by: dannymichel on 2010-06-06 14:47:44
this is great. thanks. i installed it, did a search on my hdd for foobar.exe, double-clicked it. foobar came up in my dock, with x11's icon popping up almost every 1 second. i click the foobar icon, and look at the menu to see if i can somehow pull up the fbk UI, but no luck. i'm on snow leopard 10.6.3. any ideas?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: callisto on 2010-06-06 15:09:09
what exactly is popping up from X11? What menu do you mean when you click the foobar2000 icon?

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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

Maybe your problem lies in executing the foobar.exe which is inside the foobar2000.app! try just launching the .app, otherwise I have no Idea what's happening...
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Post by: plerohero on 2010-06-10 14:00:29
Excellent job! Thank you.
I think I have the same problem.
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but Unicode characters were showing up as boxes. Fixed it by forcing the default font to Osaka.

How can I make that change too?
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Post by: dv1989 on 2010-06-10 17:46:30
Preferences: Colors and Fonts (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000%3a%50references%3a%44efault_User_Interface:Colors_and_Fonts)
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: plerohero on 2010-06-11 01:55:23
You are right.
but wine in mac does not understand greek characters in filenames.
Greek characters in tags appear right.
I tried setting LC variables but to no avail.

(http://j.imagehost.org/t/0500/Screen_shot_2010-06-11_at_4_48_56_AM.jpg) (http://j.imagehost.org/view/0500/Screen_shot_2010-06-11_at_4_48_56_AM)
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Post by: E-gel on 2010-06-19 21:50:16
Thanx for the effort of trying to bring fb2k to mac users. Downloaded the bundle and installed. Droped the foobar folder to my applications. Now when I click on the foobar2000.exe nothing happens. Tried to open it with X11 but it only shows a terminal window. Where's my mistake?
OSX 10.6.4, 2,16 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo
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Post by: dv1989 on 2010-06-19 22:34:50
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Droped the foobar folder to my applications. Now when I click on the foobar2000.exe nothing happens.

Therein lies the problem! You must run foobar2000.app, the Wine-wrapped package. The Win32 exe is useless alone. After I ran the installer I found said app in my home folder.
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Post by: saivert on 2010-06-20 21:26:35
just wanted to chime in and say you can get OSX like look if you install a OS X Aqua look-a-like windows theme under Wine.

Wine supports Windows XP based themes (skins for your windows and buttons etc).

Here is a suitable theme:
http://fav.me/d1i7m5d (http://fav.me/d1i7m5d)

and a guide for applying xp themes under wine:

http://gastly.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/app...themes-in-wine/ (http://gastly.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/apply-windows-xp-themes-in-wine/)

hope this helps!
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Post by: E-gel on 2010-06-24 21:10:27
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Droped the foobar folder to my applications. Now when I click on the foobar2000.exe nothing happens.

Therein lies the problem! You must run foobar2000.app, the Wine-wrapped package. The Win32 exe is useless alone. After I ran the installer I found said app in my home folder.

Thanx for the advice dv1989. Didn't even notice the app. Now it works just fine.
Only thing's that wine seems to need a lot of resources, so that my book runs quite hot and blows like a steam horse. Can anyone confirme?
Again, thanx for the effort. Thanx for foobar.
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Post by: dv1989 on 2010-06-24 22:51:22
Good stuff! I only used it briefly and didn't check anything like that--but while trying to add folders with many files, one method caused it to hang every time, while another worked (at least once) but was quite slow. I think I'll just use Boot Camp, as while foobar2000 is great, I only want to use it to copy tags between two sets (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=81086).
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Post by: RebelMoogle on 2010-09-26 17:49:06
THANK YOU SOOOOO much for this!
I tried installing fb2k by myself using wine, but your version runs much better!


I had one little problem and found a solution, which might interest others reading this:

on OSX, if you set a password for your account, all the folders in your Home folder are automatically password protected, including the music folder. This means that wine and ultimately foobar will not be able to write any tags or move files in the folder. This wasn't acceptable for me as I use fb2k for extensive tagging.

At first I tried to reset the normal permissions to allow group access and write, but no luck.
Then I found out that OSX uses an additional set of ACL permissions.

If you feel comfortable enough you can just delete them with the following command in Terminal.
(I'm assuming you are in your Home folder, since this is the default starting folder when you open a new Terminal window)

Code: [Select]
chmod -R -N Music

-R means it wil be done recursively for every folder and file in Music
-N means the ACL permissions will be removed
Music means it will be done for the Music folder

After this fb2k was able to write tags and move files inside the Music folder like a charm!

I hope this helps other people as well!

Now, at last, I have my favourite audio player again. Tagging is so much more fun with foobar.
I cannot describe the happiness this brings. ^^

cheers,
Moogle
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Post by: callisto on 2010-09-26 18:41:24
If you'd like to have now playing notifications with growl check out my post here (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=80221&view=findpost&p=702956)

(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/4648/foonotifyosx.th.png) (http://img227.imageshack.us/i/foonotifyosx.png/)
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Mac Moron on 2010-10-01 16:45:27
If you'd like to have now playing notifications with growl check out my post here (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=80221&view=findpost&p=702956)

(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/4648/foonotifyosx.th.png) (http://img227.imageshack.us/i/foonotifyosx.png/)
Thanks a lot
worked for me out of box!
10.6.4 SL and Kx driver for SB Live. But I have a night mere when I opened inteface and stuck with painfull navigation from win98. Just remaind me how much life is easier with OSX86 stuff.
Migration to mac is part of my digital restoration workflow so please give me advice for mac sound restoration apps.
Thanks again.
Edit:
That was for Dibrom, sorry.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Liz on 2010-10-05 18:01:14
Thank you very much for putting this package together.

I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but I haven't been able to install any additional components. I'm trying to add foo_playcount and foo_queuecontents. I've copied the .dll files for both of them into the Wine/prefixes/foobar2000/components folder, but when I look at the components in Foobar they aren't listed, and when I open the "Application install folder" under General in the Preferences window, they don't show in the components folder there. Apart from that, everything seems to be working fine. I'm running version 1.0

Apart from getting those two components to work, global keyboard shortcuts would be nice, but it seems the Mac system doesn't make that easy!
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Post by: steagle on 2011-03-01 02:26:40
Strangest thing started happening a couple days ago. I transferred my music collection over to a larger hard drive, but with the same exact volume name, folder organization, etc. Foobar recognized the new drive without any problems and browsing / editing / playback were all fine. However when exiting the program I now get this message:

Library file could not be written (bad allocation).
If you choose 'cancel', your recent library changes will be lost.


There are two options in this pop-up window - Retry and Cancel - and Retry never does anything so I'm forced to hit Cancel. Foobar closes, but now every time I open it, it has to re-import my entire collection all over again which takes 5 to 10 minutes.

I've deleted and re-installed the wine-wrapped package (v1.0) and it did not fix the problem. Anyone have any idea what's going on? I'm almost resigned to using Songbird on my Mac now, which isn't terrible but has really lackluster control over core things like artwork, various artists (no compilation tag support) and of course browsing. Things foobar really excels at. I hope this isn't the end of the road! 
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Post by: steagle on 2011-03-01 08:33:18
(false alarm ... still getting the error.)

for some more info here are the components currently installed:
foo_uie_albumart 0.2.7.1
foo_albumlist 4.4
foo_ui_columns 0.3.8.3
foo_converter 1.4
foo_ui_std 0.9.5
Core 1.0
foo_rgscan 2.0.9
foo_dsp_std 1.0
foo_input_std 1.0

I read somewhere that this crash could be related to very large artwork images, specifically embedded in the COVERART tag, but i dont use that tag and all images are separate files in album folders. still, could the sheer size of all these files have something to do with the error? not a massive collection... we're talking about 650GB, 1900 albums mostly FLAC w/ high quality art scans.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: dannymichel on 2011-03-27 23:24:28
is there a newer version of this? or a new way to do it?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: dv1989 on 2011-03-27 23:40:35
You could use WineSkin (http://wineskin.doh123.com/Information.html), which recently received a much improved version 2. It should be fairly simple; just install that and then install foobar2000 into a Wrapper (quite easy to do).
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Moomba on 2011-03-31 23:31:25
I can't find the components folder. As a matter of fact, there's no Wine-folder at all... Am I the only one this has happened to? I removed and reinstalled it once, but there's still no Wine-folder in Library\Application Support. Typing "Wine" into Spotlight gives me nothing.

I still have no music on the computer (got it yesterday) so I haven't been able to test anything really, but I thought tinkering around with extensions could be done anyhow...
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: frogworth on 2011-04-01 11:16:42
I can't find the components folder. As a matter of fact, there's no Wine-folder at all... Am I the only one this has happened to? I removed and reinstalled it once, but there's still no Wine-folder in Library\Application Support. Typing "Wine" into Spotlight gives me nothing.


It's not .wine in your home folder?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Moomba on 2011-04-01 12:40:45
I can't find the components folder. As a matter of fact, there's no Wine-folder at all... Am I the only one this has happened to? I removed and reinstalled it once, but there's still no Wine-folder in Library\Application Support. Typing "Wine" into Spotlight gives me nothing.


It's not .wine in your home folder?

I tried restarting, but it didn't show up, so made a quick try with WineSkin (as dv1989 suggested), and then the folder was there (along with a Wineskin folder). Don't know why, but I guess the problem is solved...
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: dv1989 on 2011-04-01 13:41:26
I assume it was because of this:
Quote
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.
In other words, the folder you were looking for was probably inside the application package; if so, it could be accessed by right-clicking on the app, selecting Show Package Contents, and checking the folders inside.

Edit: WineSkin similarly embeds Wine in user-created wrappers (apps), but according to your latest post it seems to also create a 'normal' installation.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: toke on 2011-04-08 00:34:41
In the updated version I uploaded, I removed the Audio CD support component.  I just didn't update the screenshots.

Does this mean that the previous version did have cd ripping?
If this is the case can you also offer the previous package?
Or better yet repackage the new one to include cs ripping.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: frogworth on 2011-04-09 09:54:57
Does this mean that the previous version did have cd ripping?
If this is the case can you also offer the previous package?
Or better yet repackage the new one to include cs ripping.


The OP can clarify, but AFAIK, Wine still doesn't support access to either optical drives or USB ports, so you can't rip Audio CDs and you can't access iPods with foo_dop etc. Unfortunate - this is essentially why I run foobar in full Windows inside a VM instead of using Wine.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: 4nt1 on 2011-05-02 06:59:25
any chance of an update??
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: dv1989 on 2011-05-02 09:58:32
Dibrom rarely logs in nowadays, so perhaps not. However, it shouldn’t be difficult to create an updated wrapper yourself; see my post #102 above.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: bruder_s on 2011-05-26 22:42:59
Hello,

I've created a little program that enables controlling Foobar2000 via hotkeys, uncreatively named FooHttpController:

(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/9898/foobar.gif) (http://img221.imageshack.us/i/foobar.gif/)
Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)

Some info:

First of all, this is my first project for the Mac platform, so please don't expect too much.
Also, this is the first version which I think is 'releaseable'...

I'm using a version v.1.1.6 of Foobar2000 installed via Crossover (worked on first try).

In order to use the app, you need to have the foo_httpcontrol component installed (http://code.google.com/p/foo-httpcontrol/ (http://code.google.com/p/foo-httpcontrol/)) with the default template.

The default hotkeys are OPTION+Y for play, OPTION+X for pause, OPTION+C for stop, OPTION+V for previous track and OPTION+B for next track.
I've got a german macbook, so maybe OPTION+Y is a bad choice - but you can redefine the hotkeys via a preferences window (COMMAND+,).
Unfortunately, I haven't found out if it it possible at all to use the media keys - that would be the ultimate goal (replacing iTunes behaviour).

Finally, here's the app: https://rapidshare.com/files/1934574921/Foo...troller.app.zip (https://rapidshare.com/files/1934574921/FooHttpController.app.zip)

Regards
bruder_s
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: smok3 on 2011-05-27 12:31:23
ill see what i can do, if:
- this re-wrapping is legal? from foobar's point of view?
- the file size wont go ballistic
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: diorgui on 2011-05-30 10:10:54
Hey everyone! Just to say that the installer on the first page works great!!
I did read the full topic but didn't find if anyone could find a easier or a way that the app runs faster on a macbook, if yes please let me know!

I registered myself first to thanks the port, it's a great deal! I use foobar on my PC, but since I started to travel etc, and my travel notebook it's a mac, I needed to be a itunes user (actually Ecoute trial-user atm), but I really loved the way I could tag and organize my mp3 on foobar, couldn't find a match for it that works on mac, so I downloaded the port presented here and it worked! Masstagger works great!! BUT the rename operation in the foo_fileops.dll from the pack isn't working. Does anyone know what to do to make it work? Didn't find a way to download just the .dll to try update it.

thanks for reading! again, thank you for the port
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: dimi_ghost on 2011-06-03 12:16:20
hello,

do you have file drag'n'drop working?

i've tried the installer proposed in this topic but it reindexes all my library on each startup, which takes lots of time.
i also tried WineSkin, reindexing seems ok, but drag'n'drop did not work....
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: callisto on 2011-06-03 13:19:39
Hello,

I've created a little program that enables controlling Foobar2000 via hotkeys, uncreatively named FooHttpController:

[...]

Finally, here's the app: https://rapidshare.com/files/1934574921/Foo...troller.app.zip (https://rapidshare.com/files/1934574921/FooHttpController.app.zip)

Regards
bruder_s


That's really really nice, thx! Would be awesome if you can get the multimedia keys working. I found out that Songbird did achieve it with a plug-in (http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1408), maybe this could be helpful. MMFix (http://nomitsu-kronos.hd.free.fr/download.php?file=mmfix) "fixes" the issue that iTunes is launched by pressing the play button.
Besides than that it would be awesome to have it only as an icon in the menubar. So it does not clutter the dock.

regards, callisto
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: toke on 2012-05-18 21:00:30
I've used the original bundle and iTunes reports AAC encoded with Nero 1.5.3.
Is this right?
Nero's page does not even list this version?
Some ancient betas?
Is there anywhere complete version history of neroAAC / neroDigital?
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: fluxcore on 2012-06-28 05:15:40
That's really really nice, thx! Would be awesome if you can get the multimedia keys working. I found out that Songbird did achieve it with a plug-in (http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1408), maybe this could be helpful. MMFix (http://nomitsu-kronos.hd.free.fr/download.php?file=mmfix) "fixes" the issue that iTunes is launched by pressing the play button.
Besides than that it would be awesome to have it only as an icon in the menubar. So it does not clutter the dock.

regards, callisto



Since bruder_s was so kind as to release his source on GitHub, I hacked extremely basic media key support onto this plugin (it now responds to the "play" button and sends a PlayOrPause action). I'm using a MS Natural ergo 4000 keyboard, so it's the only one I've got. I can probably hack in the other buttons if people want, but I can't test them easily.

The setup for all the rest of the plugin is the same, and additionally if you don't want iTunes firing up every time you press the PLAY button, install http://nomitsu.com/contents/MMFix.dmg (http://nomitsu.com/contents/MMFix.dmg) to stop it (seems to work in lion 10.7.3).

Here's the app:
http://bayfiles.com/file/eQgR/zarFFA/FooHttpControllerM.zip (http://bayfiles.com/file/eQgR/zarFFA/FooHttpControllerM.zip)

If bruder_s wants the code or for me to commit back to the repository, that's fine

Cheers,
--flux
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: DutchDoctor on 2012-07-21 10:43:43
Hi everyone. I have been a longtime Foobar lover and I have only recently purchased my first Mac (for audio production).
I am using Clementine at the moment and it has a lot of potential but it's very early stages yet. This bundle sounds great, but the link is long since expired...

Is anyone willing to post an updated download link for the bundle?
Thanks.

Dutchy.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: db1989 on 2012-07-21 10:50:45
Just download Wineskin and bundle foobar2000 yourself. By which I mean the current version, not the immensely outdated one you would have gotten here. The process is trivial.

Nothing personal, but since you reminded me: I am tempted to lock this or at least amend the first post, for (1) as I said, the original bundle is ancient and now 404d, (2) Dibrom no longer visits the board, and (3) anyone distributing a new bundle would be violating the license by my understanding.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: djdzar on 2012-10-12 04:08:13
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 (http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/foobar2000_1.0_osx.dmg).

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:

(http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/installer1.png)
(http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/installer2.png)
(http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/installer3.png)
(http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~dwm/fb2k/fb2k.png)

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.

Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: ExUser on 2012-10-12 15:08:18
(2) Dibrom no longer visits the board
Not quite, but close enough.
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: leftyd on 2013-01-06 16:51:10
is it possible to re up the foobar.app please?  or what do u suggest me doing under 10.8.1 to get foobar2000? thank u
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: Funkstar De Luxe on 2015-02-01 12:52:11
If anyone is interested, it works well in CrossOver
Title: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: re-drum on 2015-02-16 11:46:59
If anyone is interested, it works well in CrossOver


Well, I've just tried that today because with Wine I had a problem with scanning my Music Folders (it was scanning but not the full library). But I have the exact same problem with CrossOver... it seems like each folder is limited to 40 subfolders to be scanned.. weird. I have a very large music library (around 1Tb on an external HD)...

fb2k version is 1.3.6, I'm trying 1.3.7 and an old one, just in case. EDIT: It didn't work.
Title: Re: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: tyser on 2016-01-18 22:22:02
If anyone is interested, it works well in CrossOver

Well, I've just tried that today because with Wine I had a problem with scanning my Music Folders (it was scanning but not the full library). But I have the exact same problem with CrossOver... it seems like each folder is limited to 40 subfolders to be scanned.. weird. I have a very large music library (around 1Tb on an external HD)...

fb2k version is 1.3.6, I'm trying 1.3.7 and an old one, just in case. EDIT: It didn't work.
I have been searching for an answer as to why this happens or some type of fix. I have all music in subdirectories by artist sorted by letter (an A folder, B, C, etc.) and some of them have quite a few artists. Any that have more than 40 experience the exact same issue you've described, at most i think I have 51 of 118 artist directories in the 'C' folder under 'Music' showing in the library. It loads the first 51 subdirectories and everything after that is missing. This is apparent when browsing for a folder to monitor: the browser also has this limitation, not just when you add the directory and view your library. It is very frustrating and doesn't seem to have to do with any setting since there is no consistent 'cut-off' that I have observed. There are probably very few people in the universe dealing with this issue, but hopefully someone can weigh-in. I have also tried this with both Wineskin AND Crossover with the exact same results. Music is located on an external NTFS drive. Any help is appreciated
Title: Re: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: tyser on 2016-01-18 22:34:34
If anyone is interested, it works well in CrossOver

Well, I've just tried that today because with Wine I had a problem with scanning my Music Folders (it was scanning but not the full library). But I have the exact same problem with CrossOver... it seems like each folder is limited to 40 subfolders to be scanned.. weird. I have a very large music library (around 1Tb on an external HD)...

fb2k version is 1.3.6, I'm trying 1.3.7 and an old one, just in case. EDIT: It didn't work.
I have been searching for an answer as to why this happens or some type of fix. I have all music in subdirectories by artist sorted by letter (an A folder, B, C, etc.) and some of them have quite a few artists. Any that have more than 40 experience the exact same issue you've described, at most i think I have 51 of 118 artist directories in the 'C' folder under 'Music' showing in the library. It loads the first 51 subdirectories and everything after that is missing. This is apparent when browsing for a folder to monitor: the browser also has this limitation, not just when you add the directory and view your library. It is very frustrating and doesn't seem to have to do with any setting since there is no consistent 'cut-off' that I have observed. There are probably very few people in the universe dealing with this issue, but hopefully someone can weigh-in. I have also tried this with both Wineskin AND Crossover with the exact same results. Music is located on an external NTFS drive. Any help is appreciated
Upon further investigation, this limitation also applies when I try to add a directory for monitoring in MediaMonkey under Crossover. It just cuts off after a certain artist subdirectory folder, which means this has nothing to do with foobar2000 and is some sort of limitation with crossover/wine/mac osx
Title: Re: foobar2000 for Mac OS X [moderation—404, outdated, etc.; see post 119]
Post by: roc on 2016-01-26 15:36:54
Hi,
I've experienced this as well with foobar2000 running under wineskin when trying to scan a network drive location (FLACS).
BUT I think scanning the same structure of folders on my local hard drive (MP3s) works fine.