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beefweb-mpris

Adds MPRIS support to foobar2000 running in WINE on Linux by using the beefweb REST API.

Installation

Note: These are only tested on Fedora 40, but can be adapted to other distros

  1. Install WINE (sudo dnf install wine)

  2. Download the Foobar2000 installer and install in wine: wine foobar2000-x64_v2.1.5.exe

  3. Install the beefweb plugin in foobar2000

  4. Install (potential) dependencies

    • sudo dnf -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
    • sudo dnf install cairo-devel pkg-config python3-pip python3-devel cmake gobject-introspection-devel cairo-gobject-devel
    • Some of these may not be needed, but all were needed for development
  5. Install beefweb_mpris: pip install --user git+https://github.com/ther0n/beefweb_mpris.git

  6. Create a script to launch foobar2000 somewhere in your $PATH, make sure it's executable with chmod +x

    • For example ~/.local/bin/foobar2000:
     #!/bin/bash
     
     env WINEPREFIX="/home/theron/.wine" wine "/home/theron/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe"
  7. Edit $CONFIG/beefweb_mpris/config.yaml to match your settings for beefweb in foobar2000

    -foobar2000-command should be set to the foobar2000 launch script you just created (or the one included with the AUR package)

  8. Edit or create a .desktop file to launch beefweb_mpris

    • For example my ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/foobar2000.desktop file:
     [Desktop Entry]
     Name=foobar2000
     Exec=beefweb_mpris
     Type=Application
     StartupNotify=true
     Comment=Play, organize and tag your music.
     Path=/home/theron/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/foobar2000
     Icon=9F8A_foobar2000.0
     StartupWMClass=foobar2000.exe
    

Old Installation (Arch Linux)

Note: These are old instructions and were only tested on Arch linux but may still be useful for someone

  1. Install foobar2000: yay -S foobar2000

  2. Install beefweb in foobar2000

  3. Install beefweb_mpris: pip install --user git+https://github.com/ther0n/beefweb_mpris.git

  4. Run beefweb_mpris on the command line

  5. Edit $CONFIG/beefweb_mpris/config.yaml to match your settings for beefweb in foobar2000

    -foobar2000-command should be set to a command/script to run foobar2000

  6. Create/edit a .desktop file to launch beefweb_mpris

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