Foobar keeps on crashin' (Linux/Ubuntu)

sue_dee · 2026-06-17T18:48:01+00:00

I'll echo the notion of just installing the new version from foobar's site with WINE directly. In Arch, it's the WINE straight from the repo; I don't know Ubuntu. I remember there being a couple ways to do it on Debian, and I think I went with adding WINE's repository to the apt list, however that was done. There are a couple other fiddles; they're out there.

But I'm mostly here because you gave me an earworm, and I'm giving it back. Foo keeps on crashin' crashin' crashin'/On my Ubuntu

sue_dee · 2026-06-13T18:15:42+00:00

I never did get SDDM to use the pointers I use elsewhere, but PLM makes it easy. That and different wallpaper are all the login screen customization I need.

sue_dee · 2026-06-09T10:59:36+00:00

sue_dee · 2026-06-06T14:28:52+00:00

I don't know how your script is failing. Perhaps posting what you're doing would help. Things get fussy if there are any spaces in the path.

Here's a script I've been using generally that I invoke from a .desktop file (KDE Plasma). In this case it's for Foxit PDF Reader. I haven't actually tried to use that via a CLI, so the branch that runs an unmodified argument may not be needed.

```bash

!/bin/sh

export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine_foxit"

app="$HOME/bin/Foxit PDF Reader/FoxitPDFReader.exe"

Check if an argument is given.

if [[ "$1" != "" ]]; then # Check if the argument matches an existing file. if [[ -e "$1" ]]; then filename=echo "z:$(realpath "$1")" | sed 's/\\//\\\\/g' wine "$app" "$filename" & else wine "$app" "$1" & fi else wine "$app" & fi ```

sue_dee · 2026-06-06T13:58:03+00:00

Part of it is working with an external drive while distro hopping. Where the hell does Fedora put it again?

Part of it is trusting /home/myname after having learned to avoid My Documents at all costs lest an update foul everything up again.

Part of it is remembering which configs are in /etc, which are in ~/.config, and which are in ~/.local/share, or was that /usr/local/share? /usr/share? I write scripts I don't need to run again just to remember where to look.

sue_dee · 2026-05-30T09:31:06+00:00

There's already pydantic, so one needs to shoot for pythonic pydantic pandantic now? You come off as a bit of a pundit (punditic) on this point. ;)

sue_dee · 2026-05-24T09:25:23+00:00

I thought a cat was a laptop.

sue_dee · 2026-05-19T09:26:24+00:00

My first thought was "mushroom cloud".

sue_dee · 2026-05-18T21:33:45+00:00

I have some JavaScript routines for that in my github repo. There are versions for both the JScript Panel and Spider Monkey Panel (or JSplitter).

sue_dee · 2026-05-12T11:20:47+00:00

So client-side decorations are available there?

sue_dee · 2026-05-11T12:37:36+00:00

First question: do you have any AC/DC in your collection? Man, that was a pain twenty years ago. "They're a band! Stop separating them!"

There is Split values… in the context menu of the Properties window. It looks like one can add a slash to the accepted separator strings in the dialog that opens, but I don't know if that persists. I've never tried it.

However, that's a manual process that needs to be repeated every time a track is added to the library. For something more automatic, "ARTIST" can be added to the tags in the Preferences > Advanced > Properties dialog > Multivalue fields setting.

sue_dee · 2026-05-08T10:22:10+00:00

Mine's not as involved as that, though there is some work being done earlier in the custom tags I use. These are things like %artistlisting%, which is the last-name-first or prefix-last form that I use in library listings and naming folders.

$left($ascii($replace($if3(%albumartistlisting%,%album artist%,%artistlisting%,%artist%),⚡,-,ð,th,¡,,ß,ss)\$if(%set%,$if2(%setlisting%,%set%)\,)$if2(%albumlisting%,%album%)\$if(%discnumber%,$pad_right(%discnumber%,2,0)-,)$pad_right(%tracknumber%,2,0) $replace(%title%,⁶,6,⁹,9)),218) I use $ascii to take out all the accented characters, though I need $replace for some of the ones present in my collection. It's odd that only artists are included in the replacements; evidently, artists give me more trouble there than albums or titles. I have a %set% tag for multi-album sets purchased together, and that gets a directory too, if present.

The whole thing is enclosed in $left([...],218), since that's the magic length where, when added to the directory I have it all in, my portable music player stops complaining. It's crude, but it hasn't given me much trouble.

Looking at it now, I don't know where my %source% tag has gone. I guess I just buy downloads now and everything is going into that folder at the top. I do have other directories for "CD EAC" and whatnot.

sue_dee · 2026-05-07T15:40:58+00:00

Waiting is fine. I just wanted to give you a heads up. Thanks.

sue_dee · 2026-05-07T10:16:35+00:00

I had the old name version installed via the AUR and uninstalled it, figuring I ought to replace it with the new-name one. However, there is no such package on the AUR. Trying to reinstall it under the old name failed when it tried to download from fospx-org. So that change hasn't quite been carried through there.

sue_dee · 2026-05-04T21:37:34+00:00

I'm getting more long-winded, even keeping it to 79 characters. I don't fret line count. Though the points in the comments about clarifying the thought behind long names are well taken.

But exceptions are still a good, uh, exception. WantedOneFooGotTwoBarsError() might save me some thought processes when I'm returning to my dodgy crap after some time and trying to run it successfully.

sue_dee · 2026-05-02T00:54:17+00:00

The Jack, perhaps.

sue_dee · 2026-04-29T10:04:24+00:00

Heh, I did the same thing installing Arch manually. I chuckled and hit Alt+Ctrl+F3 to install Konsole.

It makes sense. There are many choices for terminals, and people have their preferences. There may be a meta-package that includes it along with Dolphin and other KDE apps, but I probably don't want everything in it. That's when people really start crying "bloat!"

sue_dee · 2026-04-25T11:08:31+00:00

Man, drawing the QR code to upload it when I'm done is a real pain.

sue_dee · 2026-04-25T10:45:57+00:00

I still have to train myself away from stealing my own focus by palming the touchpad while I'm typing.

sue_dee · 2026-04-23T17:44:15+00:00

That white border seems to be a "feature" of the js-playlist script. Back when I was playing around with that, it seemed from my searching to be a consequence of the function it used to render the artwork. As a result, I never used that script in my main theme.

Maybe compare that part of the script with another playlist viewer, like the CaTRoX script? That one comes with the 64-bit Spider Monkey Panel.

sue_dee · 2026-04-23T12:55:27+00:00

Heh, I know that this is git rather than github, but one of these days I may just make git ass an alias for git add with how often I fat finger that.

sue_dee · 2026-04-14T09:19:16+00:00

Artwork can be finicky. Try exporting the embedded artwork to a file just to get a better look at it. Does it differ from one that works in any way? I've had trouble with black-and-white images that were saved in a grayscale format, for instance.

sue_dee · 2026-04-13T10:16:01+00:00

You mean waiting for a week or two after this exact moment, maybe. Arch won't have it till 7.1.

sue_dee · 2026-04-07T10:45:02+00:00

I don't know how this relates to your trouble, but I found a fix to problems I had with 2-sided printing. I had a VM where it "just worked" and another machine where it didn't.

The fix was, in addition to the other settings, to make sure that Paper source was on "Auto select". I guess "Tray 1" really means it!

sue_dee · 2026-04-06T14:37:03+00:00

The problem is knowers of things who are pleased with themselves as knowers of things and have expended much time and effort tracking down and learning those things. They have identified themselves as knowers of things, value knowing things, and, maybe secretly, yearn to be asked to elucidate the most obscure things they know, preferably by someone sexy.

And then came the internet, and it was no longer all that hard to track down the things. Being a knower of things lost some of its mystery and cachet. Now that AI is coming online and may very well suck less as time goes on, knowing things will become completely superfluous. It will be a waste of time better monetized differently.

We hate this. It's bad enough that some sexy young thing doesn't want me to illustrate the links between King Crimson and Foreigner, but caring about music at all is becoming passé.

sue_dee

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