Does FooBar 2000 work in Linux

is there a way for foobar to work in Linux, specifically Gnome?

WIth some tinkering, yes. Set up wine with a good theme and link it to your music folder and it mostly works.

Have you tried any native music clients? I used to use foobar on Windows, but on linux found Clementine to be much to my liking. Plus it integrates with the more modern display managers (appears in the volume control popup).

It can work from what ive heard. But as mentioned. Have you considered trying native solutions? There are a lot of good Linux based music players out there, and you'll likely have a better experience when you find one you like.

People keep asking about Foobar, and I keep saying,

DeaDBeeF.

Check out http://gmusicbrowser.org/

Foobar been working well for me last year or so, first in Ubuntu installed the hard way, more recently in Manjaro straight from the AUR. Took a lot of time to get everything tweaked so my normal foobar config worked ok. still not overjoyed with sound quality as can't run it within jack.

There are good linux players out there, but foobar still has unique features I use daily - peakmeter is best way to monitor radio stream to level-check other hosts. Replaygain and re-tagging beats anything else available. Also have one playback plugin (vlevel) for mild compression required for streaming - could replicate this elsewhere but would take a while.

For general listening I also like Audacious running in Jack - mostly because the xmms skin makes it small and unobtrusive, but also has that retro winamp style with better coloursl!

I would also like to point out banshee. It is a very foobar-ish style music player.

i like to use a binaural component with foobar, is something similar in Clementine that i can use?

Clementine is what I used before Foobar. Sadly, there is now no going back.

The official status of Foobar2000 in WINE: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1749
It's an old version, but I'm sure the newer ones will work. It has gold status though!

I'm not sure what that is?

Damn, that looks nice! +1 for DeaDBeeF

Not without wine, as everyone else in the world has just stated. If you're new to linux, it might be a great opportunity to try something new though.

Kaffeine is nice, and so is clementine. Don't know if they've improved since I've used them, but I would advise to stay away from amarok.

Personally, I use mpv/mplayer with scripts that I write. Minimal as fuck.

I used love foobar, but for some reason recently i have jumped on the rhythmbox bandwagon and to answer your initial question. yes you can get foobar running on gnome with a bit of tinkering.

I'm a fan of DeaDBeeF.

It's the closest thing you'll get to a Foobaresque player - It's also actively developed plus you can create your own plugins.

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Something else to look at is using MPD with an interface you like. It is a little more complicated and definitely isn't for everyone but I personally like it.

The UI in gmusicbrowser is very customize-able.

i hear that if u use wine, foobar works quite well. i like foobar but it's not worth it if you struggle getting it to work. I'd suggest looking at some of the proprietary software done on linux, there are quite a few that are done quite well, can't go wrong with it.

It's easy with playonlinux: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2011-Foobar2000.html. It seems to be fully supported.

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