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    Software compat for linux is nearly total and complete except for two REAL ANNOYING CATEGORIES:

    • John Deere ass corpo ass software for interfacing with maker devices

    • effing E-Sports and wannabe E-Sports (HUNT)

    but all of my weird old crap works just fine HBU

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    [–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Fascinating, thanks for sharing. I didn’t check for every one of those but surprisingly the ones I did check, VLC doesn’t support.

    Apparently I should have asked if you’d tried foobar2000, because it has support for all of those, or Audio Overload, which has support for many of them.

    PSF

    Interesting, it appears Winamp supported PSF via a plugin that basically handled hardware emulation. I found a still open ticket from 2015 for adding support to VLC, though.

    According to https://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=PSF, foobar2000, which has a Linux client, has support. I’ve used foobar2000 before and it’s decent.

    Audio Overload is also listed, with a parenthetical - though it’s possible that support has improved since the article was last updated (in 2019). I’ve never used it myself, though.

    NSF

    Per https://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=NSF the same players are available, this time without a warning on Audio Overload (notably this article is from 2022). Nosefart is also listed as supporting it and having Linux support.

    2SF

    https://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=2SF only lists foobar2000 and Winamp

    Various PCM Streams

    That’s a lot - and I suspect some of those are supported by VLC based off the codecs listed - but according to https://github.com/vgmstream/vgmstream, foobar2000 has a plugin for vgmstream.

    VGM

    https://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=VGM lists foobar2000 and Audio Overload, as well as VGMPlay, which I’ve never heard of before.

    GBS

    https://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=GBS again lists foobar2000 and Audio Overload

    SPC

    https://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=SPC - same deal.

    [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    The first thing I did when I migrated was look for foobar2000, as I knew it rivaled Winamp in compatibility. Couldn't find a Linux client. Only Windows/Mac. Unfortunately it looks like Audio Overload went Mac only, but the legacy 2.0 version is still available for Linux so I might give that a try.

    [–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    looks like it's the sdk's

    if you're on arch based it's in the aur https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/foobar2000

    and if not I'm sure ya can figure it out 😁

    [–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    That aur package is still just using wine to run it though.

    [–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    shit it does, wait with that I'm not sure foobar has Linux support at all - just a lot of wine integrations

    [–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 days ago

    I could’ve sworn I’d used Foobar2000 on Linux years ago and now I feel like I’m experiencing a mini Mandela effect