Linux, Wine & MediaMonkey

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.

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 http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks to install gecko, vb6run, vc6run, wmp10. More packages might be necessary, or maybe theses packages are creating problems. A Linux package is also needed. It is called winbind and provides ntlm_auth. In Ubuntu you can use Applications/System/Synaptyc Package Manager. Wine needs a little bit of configuration before running. Go to Applications/Wine/Configuration. 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
• 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)

Following items do not work:

• Device synchronization (is USB interface working?)
• Opening webpages (gecko interface does not show anything, does MM rely so much on IE?)
• Player (no sound for the moment, WinAmp can be installed and used instead)
• 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