Foobar2000 Wine

Foobar2000 Crashes on Library Scan

Seems to happen when adding hundreds of thousands of files at once, split in to smaller folders and/or only add parts of the library at a time.

Audio Cracking/Buffering Noises

Add PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=170 to your environment variables.

KDE

Right click your foobar2000 desktop shortcut and press properties.

Add PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=170 to the Environment variables section like below.

Foobar2000 Shortcut Properties

Press OK and relaunch Foobar2000

Media Keys/Keyboard Keys

Media keys do not work natively, simulate them by making the following four scripts.

#!/usr/bin/dash 
WINEDEBUG=-all PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=170 STAGING_WRITECOPY=1 STAGING_SHARED_MEMORY=1 /usr/bin/wine "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe" "/next" 

#!/usr/bin/dash 
PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=50 STAGING_WRITECOPY=1 STAGING_SHARED_MEMORY=1 WINEDEBUG=-all /usr/bin/wine "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe" "/playpause" 

#!/usr/bin/dash 
WINEDEBUG=-all PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=170 STAGING_WRITECOPY=1 STAGING_SHARED_MEMORY=1 /usr/bin/wine "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe" "/prev" 

#!/usr/bin/dash 
PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=50 STAGING_WRITECOPY=1 STAGING_SHARED_MEMORY=1 WINEDEBUG=-all /usr/bin/wine "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe"  

In KDE System Settings

1. Press keyboard on the left hand side
2. Press shortcuts
3. Press Add New => Command or Script
4. Press the choose button and find the scripts made above. Pick any name you like and press Add.

Foobar2000 Media Keys Setup - KDE System Settings

Press the Add button and press the keyboard key you want. The same process can be used to make keyboard macros.

Foobar2000 Media Keys Setup - KDE System Settings