Running MM under Mac OS X with Wineskin

[markstuartwalker]

Play on Mac can run MM on a Mac ...

It was very easy. From recent recollection...

Downloaded PlayOnMac from http://www.playonmac.com/en/download.html 1.3.21 and installed

Created a new application for Internet Explorer 6 (this is probably the bit you missed). Note: "Application" is POM's terminology for a Wine Prefix.

Configure a sound driver for the Wine Prefix.

Added to that application the MM3 installation and created a shortcut for the non-skinned exe.

Added to that application an MM4 portable installation and created a shortcut for the non-skinned exe.

I must point out that I haven't done any thorough testing, indeed the check was pretty superficial.

You can expect an exception to be thrown at startup. This is normal.

[markstuartwalker]

I forgot to mention that the MAD Audio plugin needs to be included as well.

[Tripnologist]

I registered just so I could thank you for your post.

So, yeah, thank you SO SO much for this!!!!!!
I have a PC and a Mac and while I love them both, I absolutely hate playing music on the MBP because it means having to use itunes.
I'll definitely be giving this a go in the next couple days.

[markstuartwalker]

Welcome to the world of MM.

I'm only too happy to help.

[markstuartwalker]

After doing a recent rebuild I realised that you also need to configure the Mac sound driver for Wine too.

[markstuartwalker]

Just in case someone is tempted (like me) I suggest NOT installing POM 2.5 as it doesn't work for me.

Anyone used Wineskin? http://wineskin.doh123.com

[markstuartwalker]

As I mentioned about I've been trying POM 2.5. This was on a fresh build and I ran into various problems not all of which come from the new release. Here is my slightly amended approach (mainly to circumvent the POM screens and use winetricks) ...

* Install xquartz 2.6.2 from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases
* Logout and login to allow this to replace the standard X11
* Install POM 2.5 from http://www.playonmac.com/en/download.html
* Launch POM
* Install (via Unsupported Application) the MM4 installation into a new prefix (called MM4). Do NOT launch MM at the end of the installation.
* At the very end of installation create a POM shortcut for the "MediaMonkey (non-skinned).exe" executable
* Use Tools/Manage Wine Versions to download the Wine version of your choice (1.3.19 in my case)
* Use Tools/Manage Wine Versions to set the wine version for this new application to 1.3.19
* Open a terminal window
* Download winetricks using "curl http://winetricks.org/winetricks > winetricks". Make this executable with chmod +x winetricks
* Append the wine path "PATH="/Users/<your user>/Library/PlayOnMac/WineVersions/1.3.19/bin/:$PATH""
* Set the prefix location with "export WINEPREFIX="/Users/dad/Library/PlayOnMac//wineprefix/MM4""
* Install some additions to the prefix with "./winetricks ie6 corefonts vcrun6 vb6run wsh56"

You can now run MM4 from with POM.

[markstuartwalker]

OK, I've been doing alot of learning!

I have played about with installing wine natively via MacPorts http://www.macports.org/ which took AGES to compile. Useful but pretty raw. I wanted something more elegant.

Then I went back to WineSkin http://wineskin.doh123.com/ . This was very sucessful . I've stopped using POM now.

Have a read of the website to find out details but in a nutshell I have created a Mac MM.app folder which contains a the MM3 and MM4 exe files together with the magic collection of ie6,corefonts,vbrun6,vb6run and wsh56 plus the MAD plugin. When I open the application I have MM running under Wine on my Mac.

The screenshot is bland but the user experience is brilliant! http://www.mediafire.com/?ygf5vsrc9huct7y

I must say that the Macbook Air's SSD makes MM go like the wind - faster than either my Windows 7 laptop or my Ubuntu desktop.

[markstuartwalker]

The USBMass1 plugin works fine when outputting to a file share so that my Mac iTunes can read it.

The UPNP media sharing doesn't work though . I will investigate further ...

[markstuartwalker]

To get the MAD plugin to work you also need to delete the f_ape.dll and f_mpe.dll plugins.

... as I found out after installing MM 4.0.0.1400 and it stopped working!

[markstuartwalker]

I use MM's USBMass1 plugin to export a file structure. viewtopic.php?f=4&t=58837

By using the follwoing script I can import into a Mac instance of iTunes.

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(*
*)


on readFile(unixPath)
   set foo to (open for access (POSIX file unixPath))
   set txt to (read foo for (get eof foo))
   close access foo
   return txt
end readFile

-- Where all the playlists are
set playlistFolder to choose folder with prompt "Please choose the folder containing the Playlists"
set playlistFiles to my getPlaylistNames(playlistFolder)


--
--
--set root to playlistFolder as string
set addCount to 0

set playlistcount to count of playlistFiles
repeat with i from 1 to the playlistcount
   
   -- the filename
   set theFile to item i of playlistFiles
   
   -- build the playlist name
   set theName to my nameOf(POSIX path of theFile)
   display dialog "Playlist to import " & theName giving up after 1
   
   -- find or create the playlist in iTunes
   tell application "iTunes"
      try
         set new_playlist to (some playlist whose name is theName)
      on error errmesg number errn
         --display dialog errmesg & return & return & "error number: " & ¬
         (errn as text)
         log "Create " & theName
         set new_playlist to (make new user playlist with properties {name:theName})
      end try
      
   end tell
   
   -- read the file contents
   set thecontents to my readFile(POSIX path of theFile)
   set thelines to every paragraph of thecontents
   
   set thePathCount to my checkLInes(thelines)
   
   -- loop through the lines
   tell application "iTunes"
      set i to 1
      
      -- Get the list of tracks
      set theTracks to (get a reference to every track of new_playlist)
      set k to count of items of theTracks
      --display dialog k
      --display dialog thePathCount
      
      if not k = thePathCount then
         repeat with j from 1 to the count of thelines
            
            set thetrack to (item j of thelines) as string
            if not thetrack = "" then
               
               set thetrack to POSIX path of (playlistFolder) & thetrack
               
               repeat while (i ≤ k)
                  -- Find the path on this track
                  set theLocation to (location of (item i of theTracks)) as text
                  set theLocation to POSIX path of theLocation
                  --log i & k
                  --log thetrack & " " & theLocation
                  
                  -- compare the new and old location
                  if not theLocation = thetrack then
                     -- remove the offending track
                     log "delete " & i & theLocation
                     delete item i of theTracks
                     set k to k - 1
                  else
                     exit repeat
                  end if
               end repeat
               
               if not (i ≤ k) then
                  try
                     set thetrack to POSIX file thetrack as string
                     
                     log "Add " & thetrack
                     --display dialog "Add " & thetrack
                     add thetrack to new_playlist
                     set addCount to addCount + 1
                  end try
               end if
               set i to i + 1
            end if
         end repeat
      end if
   end tell
end repeat

display dialog "Complete. Added=" & addCount


on checkLInes(thelines)
   
   set k to 0
   repeat with j from 1 to the count of thelines
      set thetrack to (item j of thelines) as string
      if not thetrack = "" then
         --set j to j - 1
         set k to k + 1
      end if
      
   end repeat
   --set k to count of thelines
   
   return k
   
end checkLInes

on extOf(theFile)
   set theSuffix to text ((offset of "." in theFile) + 1) thru -1 of theFile
   return theSuffix
end extOf

on nameOf(thePath)
   set n to (offset of "/" in (reverse of characters of thePath) as string) - 1
   set theFile to text ((length of (thePath)) - n + 1) thru -1 of thePath
   set theName to text 1 thru ((offset of "." in theFile) - 1) of theFile
   return theName
end nameOf

on getPlaylistNames(playlistFolder)
   tell application "Finder"
      activate
      set playlistFiles to name of every file of folder playlistFolder
   end tell
   
   set root to playlistFolder as string
   
   set thePlaylistAliasList to {}
   set playlistcount to count of playlistFiles
   log playlistcount
   repeat with i from 1 to the playlistcount
      
      -- the filename
      set theFile to item i of playlistFiles
      --if type of theFile is file then
      
      set theSuffix to my extOf(POSIX path of theFile)
      --display dialog "Suffix " & theSuffix
      
      if theSuffix = "m3u" then
         
         set thePlaylist to {root & theFile} as alias
         
         copy thePlaylist to the end of thePlaylistAliasList
         
      end if
   end repeat
   return thePlaylistAliasList
end getPlaylistNames

[Zoethelighter]

Play on Mac can run MM on a Mac ...

It was very easy. From recent recollection...

Downloaded PlayOnMac from http://www.playonmac.com/en/download.html 1.3.21 and installed

Created a new application for Internet Explorer 6 (this is probably the bit you missed). Note: "Application" is POM's terminology for a Wine Prefix.

Configure a sound driver for the Wine Prefix.

Added to that application the MM3 installation and created a shortcut for the non-skinned exe.

Added to that application an MM4 portable installation and created a shortcut for the non-skinned exe.

I must point out that I haven't done any thorough testing, indeed the check was pretty superficial.

You can expect an exception to be thrown at startup. This is normal.

I've been trying to figure this out for the better part of the last couple of days but I'm still having issues. If I could be pointed towards the MM4 Portable installation file that would be extremely helpful. I'm not sure what my issue is, but it's starting to grow quite tiresome.

Also, where exactly do I need to install the MAD plugin and/or how?

Sorry for being so inquisitive, but I dearly miss MediaMonkey and itunes just doesn't work the way I want my music program to work.

Thanks for any assistance, I will greatly appreciate it.

[markstuartwalker]

The MM portable installation refers to a normal MM4 installation but check the "Portable" option that is presented.

The MAD plugin can be found here http://www.mediamonkey.com/addons/brows ... -plug-ins/

I suggest that you stop using POM as I found it rather unstable. I find Wineskin much better.

[markstuartwalker]

Is anyone else having trouble with getting MMIP files to load under wine? The unfortunate fact is that MM installs addons via an MMIP file type. This doesn't work well under wine becasue the file path supplied to the executable is in a Unix format.

The answer is to use a utility called winepath. This can convert from a Unix path into an equivalent Windows path suitable for a wine installation. All you need do is create an intermeadiate bash script file to launch your MM. As I launch my MM with some non-default command line options I have one of these already so I just appended a bit on the end of the command.

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wine ~/.wine/dosdevices/c\:/Program\ Files/MediaMonkey/MediaMonkey\ \(non-skinned\).exe \/NoSplash \/INIFILE=J:\\mmdb\\MediaMonkey.ini $(winepath -w $1)


The "$(winepath -w $1)" bit converts the supplied Unix file path and converts it to the Windows format.

By dragging an MMIP file onto the bash script icon MM gets launched with the appropriate file.

[Zoethelighter]

The MM portable installation refers to a normal MM4 installation but check the "Portable" option that is presented.

The MAD plugin can be found here http://www.mediamonkey.com/addons/brows ... -plug-ins/

I suggest that you stop using POM as I found it rather unstable. I find Wineskin much better.

I've downloaded Wineskin but I'm still not sure where to go from there.

I hate to be a bother but could I get a quick idiots guide? And a link to the MM4 dl?

Sorry for being so much trouble.