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, 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 gecko, vb6run, vc6run, wmp10. More packages might be necessary, or maybe theses packages are creating problems. TODO:Check if wmp10 is really needed, as it does not give us nothing new.--Botijo 02:42, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
A Linux package is also needed. It is called winbind and provides ntlm_auth. In Ubuntu you can use Applications/System/Synaptyc Package Manager. Remember, search for winbind.
In order to reproduce MP3, the MAD plugin is needed. You can delete in_wmp3.dll from the Plugins directory if you follow this path. I have the hunch that MP3 decoding through in_wmp3.dll can be done if the correct plugin is installed in wmp10. wmp10 might not be needed anymore (have to double check with new installation).
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.
In order to avoid "Player initialization errors", the files d_*.dll from the Plugins directory need to be deleted. Sorry, no iPod integration for 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)
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.logScreenshots
