I am new to Linux in general. Last week I started using Ubuntu. I installed Wine and was able to get Band in a Box working once I copied a couple of dll's over from my Vista partition. But I was having trouble with sound (pulse audio). Ubuntu wouldnt properly recognise my onboard sound either. At one point I got midi working but not the wav output. I could have one or the other.
But the program worked. This week I decided to try Kubuntu, clean install. I much prefer the KDE desktop to GNome. Anyway, when I try and install Band in a Box now, it doesnt work. Running from the terminal I get the message about unimplemented call to mcvcrt.dll. I can post more details when I get home from work. Was up til 12 last night.
I have tried installing Winetricks, but that didnt help. Is there any reason that it would work under Ubuntu and not a clean install of Kubuntu?
Kubunut recognises my sound device and has been a pleasure to use otherwise. I am going to keep my dual boot anyway for my games for now. But if I could get BIAB to work under Linux, that would be great.
Band in a Box
Progress!! Reinstalled and got it working. You must also run the decompress.exe inside the RealTracks and Drums folders to be able to use them. The originals are .wma files and they give an error in BIAB under Wine.
But if you install Media Player through WineTricks you can get the decompressor to work. After that, you can use the RealTracks and Drums in the program. There may be a way possible to get them to work without decompressing them wav files, but I couldnt get it to work.
Initially I decompressed them in Windows and copied them over. But you can do it from Linux if you get the codecs from WMP through winetricks.
Once I get this working as close to 100% as I can I will post in AppDB section. Right now I am just happy that it works at all. Thanks again for the great program.
But if you install Media Player through WineTricks you can get the decompressor to work. After that, you can use the RealTracks and Drums in the program. There may be a way possible to get them to work without decompressing them wav files, but I couldnt get it to work.
Initially I decompressed them in Windows and copied them over. But you can do it from Linux if you get the codecs from WMP through winetricks.
Once I get this working as close to 100% as I can I will post in AppDB section. Right now I am just happy that it works at all. Thanks again for the great program.
Quick update. I was wrong. Installing the WMP actually made it to where BIAB could use the original .wmas. Which saves a lot of space. The wav's load faster, but use a lot of space.
By default, BIAB decompress the wma file as needed. The fact that I could decompress them all means BIAB can also while running.
This is getting better and close to usable. If not though, I will just keep my Windows partition intact.
By default, BIAB decompress the wma file as needed. The fact that I could decompress them all means BIAB can also while running.
This is getting better and close to usable. If not though, I will just keep my Windows partition intact.
Band in a Box
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM, dbigers <[email protected]> wrote:
partially working.
Feel free to open a bug if specific parts of the program aren't working.
If you want further help with things not working you will need to
outline what's wrong, how you got to that point, and if possible
console logs of the failure pasted to a service like pastebin.com.
Posting this to Appdb would be fantastic to help others get itQuick update. I was wrong. Installing the WMP actually made it to where BIAB could use the original .wmas. Which saves a lot of space. The wav's load faster, but use a lot of space.
By default, BIAB decompress the wma file as needed. The fact that I could decompress them all means BIAB can also while running.
This is getting better and close to usable. If not though, I will just keep my Windows partition intact.
partially working.
Feel free to open a bug if specific parts of the program aren't working.
If you want further help with things not working you will need to
outline what's wrong, how you got to that point, and if possible
console logs of the failure pasted to a service like pastebin.com.
