Hello everybody,
hereby the latest & greatest news for running Albumplayer on Linux & WINE.
A year has passed and this time I have only good news.
Wine currently landed in stable version 1.2.
The benefits are that it now runs the .NET framework 2.0 correctly & stable for AlbumPlayer 5.2, this means
Amazon cover lookup is now also working under WINE! (Yeah!)
Other great news is that
there is a working (commercial) version of WINE wich uses the speedy advantage for the new graphical engine in Albumplayer (since version 5.1)
In WINE this is called the DIB engine, and it is available in Bordeaux for Linux or MAC.
This will cost you a little bit of money, but if your running Albumplayer on WINE it is the best thing you can buy. It will speed up Albumplayer in a way that it was designed for, very fast & responsive!
You can wait until the DIB engine will be included in WINE but this is not expected to happen very soon.
Now for those of you that want to try this, the following notes:
First of all the DIB engine wil only run in the root of .wine, in other environments I had no success.
So to install this get your copy of Bordeaux here:
http://bordeauxgroup.com/ ,then install AlbumPlayer in the root of wine (.wine)
If you look at the how-to instructions here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=20829
the only thing you need to change is to leave this part of the command: 'env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-ap5x'
So you get:
sh winetricks allfonts mdac28 jet40 msxml4 directx9 ie6 wininet dotnet20
wine '/path/to/albumplayer_setup5x.exe' (install AlbumPlayer V5.x)
etc/etc (assuming winetricks & wine1.2 is installed)
Once your installation is finished you start Albumplayer like this in the terminal:
export WINEDIB=ON
/opt/bordeaux/bin/wine "C:\Program Files\AlbumPlayer\AlbumPlayer.exe"
Till next time, enjoy the music & enjoy the best music player of all, Albumplayer!
Best wishes,
Adri
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==Bordeaux 2.0.8/Ubuntu 10.04 LTS/AlbumPlayer5.2==