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  • MusicBee works perfectly via Wine, and it’s a major part of my digital library. Without MusicBee my MP3 player would be worth 1/10 for me.

    But you can’t just take the installer and double click it, you need to follow these steps (naturally replace the directories):

    Install Wine Staging and Winetricks

    Create prefix for MusicBee and .NET

    Bash:

    WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ wineboot –init 
    

    Install .NET 4.0 and corefonts

    Bash:

    WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ winetricks --force dotnet40 corefonts
    

    Install xmllite and gdiplus

    Bash:

    WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ winetricks xmllite gdiplus
    

    Set Wine to Windows 7 compatibility mode

    Bash:

    WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/ winetricks win7 
    

    Install .NET 4.8

    Bash:

    WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/  wine $HOME/Downloads/ndp48-x86-x64-allos-enu.exe /q 
    

    Install Music Bee

    Bash:

    WINEPREFIX=/home/kadupse/Wine/MusicBee/  wine $HOME/Downloads/MusicBeeSetup_3_6.exe 
    

    Downloads needed:
    This specific version of the .NET Framework installer

    You might see warnings about WoW64 mode, experimental flags, etc, just ignore them and keep going and MusicBee will work.