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There are lots of graphical glitches that hinder your progress. Also, whenever a serious error is found (most of the time due to missing DLLs), MM will hang. The only way to continue is to kill the process. This is done with<source lang="text">killall MediaMonkey.exe</source> | |||
Installation packages install correctly, but Xubuntu file manager (dunno if it happens with vanilla Ubuntu one) does not register the filetype with MM. There is also the question that WINE might not be able to translate Unix paths into Windows paths, so the only way to do this is to have the file in the same directory of MM (or in any child one) and execute MM directly from there. | |||
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Revision as of 17:55, 1 May 2008
Introduction
Can MediaMonkey 3 run on Linux via Wine?
This is a place where working notes about the attempt can be collected.
Inspired by botijo's original work via the forums.
Test Environment
Ubuntu Linux 8.04
MediaMonkey3 lastest beta v3.0.3.1164 for initial tests, debug version.
WINE version 0.9.60.
Adding Wine to Ubuntu
Please follow instructions at http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb . Version tested here is 0.9.60.
Adding MediaMonkey + Wine
After installing Wine, MediaMonkey can be installed without any problems. If you run MM now, you will have lots of trouble.
MediaMonkey needs some libraries to run. Please use winetricks to install following items:
- gecko as an Internet Explorer alternative
- vb6run provides the OLE libraries
- vcrun6 provides the MFC42 libraries
- wsh56 provides support for VBScript, needed for scripts. vcrun6 and vbrun6 have to be installed before wsh56 or installation will fail.
A Linux package is also needed. It is called winbind. The synaptyc package manager should have this package. It provides ntlm_auth that is needed for OLE, I believe.
In order to reproduce MP3, the MAD plugin is needed. You should delete the file i_wmp3.dll in the Plugins directory. The reason is that i_wmp3.dll requires Windows Media Player, plus the MP3 codecs for WMP. It is simpler to install the MAD plugin.
In order to avoid "Player initialization errors", the files d_*.dll from the Plugins directory need to be deleted. No iPod integration for you! Other devices will also not be able to synchronize.
Wine needs a little bit of configuration before running. Go to Applications/Wine/Configuration and follow these steps:
- In the drive pane select Autodetect
- In the audio pane, select whatever creates some sound to you.
Function Tests
Botijo verified this to work with the settings set in this wiki.
Following items work:
- Tag support
- Database operations
- File operations
- Music output (my ears are itching for more music!)
- Skins (Graphical glitches while changing skins, press Enter after doing so)
- Scripts (some do, auto scripts are not loaded after restart?)
- Plugins (Milkdrop shows!)
- System tray icon
- Installation packages .mmip (Show errors, but install correctly)
- Playlist management, including saving
- Reports (Statistics fail due to some obscure SDBUI error, file based reports work)
- Auto DJ
- Opens preferred browser for "Get Info/Buy"
Following items do not work:
- Device synchronization (is USB interface working?). iPod related plugins need to be deleted.
- Opening webpages (gecko interface does not show anything, does MM rely so much on IE?)
- CD Rom burning: If CD/DVD is not mounted, it does not show in MM. Blank CD/DVD cannot be mounted, so burning cannot be done. Burning form showed burning capabilites correctly, so device is being recognized correctly.
- Autoplaylists
- Party mode locks
- URL entry to remote playlist: Wininet error
- Auto tag from web
Misc notes and links
Debug version of MM works and can report errors to developers (I hope they see my email).
A way to know what MM is doing is catching all the KERNEL32 debug outputs. Of course you need the debug version of MM to do this. The usual Windows tool DebugView does not work. A crude way to do the same thing under WINE is:
WINEDEBUG=relay wine ./MediaMonkey.exe &> /tmp/MM.log
grep Debug /tmp/MM.log > MM.logThere are lots of graphical glitches that hinder your progress. Also, whenever a serious error is found (most of the time due to missing DLLs), MM will hang. The only way to continue is to kill the process. This is done with
killall MediaMonkey.exeInstallation packages install correctly, but Xubuntu file manager (dunno if it happens with vanilla Ubuntu one) does not register the filetype with MM. There is also the question that WINE might not be able to translate Unix paths into Windows paths, so the only way to do this is to have the file in the same directory of MM (or in any child one) and execute MM directly from there.
Screenshots
