FooBar2000
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FooBar2000 is a very powerful music playing and encoding program that is small to download. Many people use FooBar2000 because it's very lite on memory usage. Also, FooBar2000 comes with the codecs to play WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC out of the box. In this HOWTO I used FooBar2000 0.8.3 Special version.
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Once you have downloaded FooBar2000, navigate in a console to where you downloaded. Once there do this;
Installing FooBar2000
$ wine foobar2000_0.8.3_special.exe
When it is installing it may ask if you want to download the Windows Media Format 9 runtime, click yes. It may also prompt you to download other stuff to, click yes on them.
Installing the extra stuff;
$ wine wmfdist.exe /Q $ wine msvcp60.exe
Once done you will have a working FooBar2000. I'm still testing everything to see what bugs show up.
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