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[danrien]

this might be of some interest to people...

i just got mc11 running on ubuntu linux!  right now, i'm using windows (i know the irony), otherwise id put up a screenshot. it works pretty decently, with the occasional crash here and there (somewhat predictable).

also, the audio gets choppy real easily whenever there's a spike in cpu usage/memory usage, but still, pretty cool, huh?

anyways, i did it using ubuntu breezy badger 5.10, and the new wine beta (finally!) .90.  now i'm working on getting linux to NOT see my music folder as read-only....

**update - got a screenshot**

[Tyler Campbell]

Very cool. MC is one of the few apps keeping me from going full-time with Ubuntu.  If you haven't already, you should submit your findings to the wine application db: http://appdb.winehq.org/

[danrien]

yep i submitted now they'll have to accept it....

[danrien]

ok, winehq accepted the submission!  if you want to add, just go here: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1703

[brickf]

Danrien,
I gave it a shot, but I'm having troubles getting MC installed. It's asking for an active x control.....IE? How did you get this to work?
Thanks

[ichkriegediekriese]

Hi!

That is qute interesting, I never got any WinProgs work under Linux .-).

But why arent you using AmaRok!? It is still one of the best Music Players I have seen.
Especially the Lyrics-Funytion! -> Hows that for MC11.1!?

greetz

[GHammer]

But why arent you using AmaRok!? It is still one of the best Music Players I have seen.

I've never seen a way to play APE files (and APL) in Linux.

[danrien]

yeh um brick.  you definitely need to install ie6 in it.  sorry i forgot about that, i've kind of gotten used to doing that automatically when experimenting with ubuntu.  the best way to get your wine working best is to use this cool script called sidenet that sets it all up for you.  I recommend doing the IE6/WMP6 install option when you run that script.

Um after that, you should get rpcrt4 dll from windows and put it in your system and system32 folders.  that seemed to do the trick for me!  maybe i'll post a howto if enough people want to do this.

keep in mind, i use the stable install of mc11 in ubuntu as i dont want to many bugs interfering with eachother!

But why arent you using AmaRok!? It is still one of the best Music Players I have seen.
Especially the Lyrics-Funytion! -> Hows that for MC11.1!?

guess i just never looked at it, i was just using rhythmbox  which i just dont realyl like in general.  it wants to be itunes but even fails there (pretty hard to do).  maybe i'll give it a look, but still it's pretty cool to use mc11 in ubuntu.  i think it would be really awesome if the JR staff would use the winelibs to convert it into a stable running linux program

[bob]

The problem is that you can't really include any windows .dll's in your wine install (without purchasing a windows license)

[GHammer]

The problem is that you can't really include any windows .dll's in your wine install (without purchasing a windows license)

There's always this possibility:
http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/index.html

[pank2002]

It's Free Software though and thus probably under GPL. Thus MC would have to be under GPL if JRiver was to offer a easily installable package -- at least as far as I understand Free Software, but I might be wrong. 

Of course it could be installed by each end user and there would be no problem.

[danrien]

It's Free Software though and thus probably under GPL. Thus MC would have to be under GPL if JRiver was to offer a easily installable package -- at least as far as I understand Free Software, but I might be wrong.

Of course it could be installed by each end user and there would be no problem.

From what I understand, the GPL says that only MODIFICATIONS of the code have to be put back in to the open source community.  Thus, anything that doesnt require modifying the wine source code (which would most likely be the bulk of the MC code) could still be sold.  Of couse, I also have never read the GPL, this is only from a cursory knowledge.  But I like to assume I'm right

[pank2002]

Would you be able to include ReactOS project files in propitiatory software?

It's correct that you can't distribute anything released under GPL under propitiatory license, but I'm not sure if you can redistribute them (in an potential windows installer) without releasing under GPL...

I'm no expert on GPL, though

[danrien]

well the parts that differentiate mc from wine is what jriver would charge for, not the components that they modified to make it work with wine (which they would have to send back to the community).  examples of this are redhat, which charge for the unique software they include with their linux os.

[GHammer]

None of that is what keeps people from participating.
Its the inclusion of source for anything that uses the free code.

Because if you get the free library code and make changes, you need to know how to recompile the app that uses them.

I guess you could just include an object, but I'm not real interested in linux/GPL so I wouldn't know.