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    How to run Melodics on Linux using Bottles

TL;DR: Melodics runs out-of-the-box with the current version of
Bottles and its default settings. However Melodics uses your browser to
handle logins, and expects your browser to be able to call the Melodics
app once logged-in. Read "Melodics Desktop Integration" below to set
that up.
Versions tested:

KDE neon (based on Ubuntu 22.04)
Bottles 51.10
Soda 8.0.2 (fork of Wine by Bottles developers, used by default)
Melodics 4.0.266.0

Credits:

Thanks to @klingtnet for the initial gist and ensuing
discussion
Thanks to @wwwehr for the scheme handler

Installing Bottles and Melodics

Use the Flatpak version of Bottles, this is heavy, but so much better
than fiddling with multiple forks of Wine using a distro package manager
or whatever. In a terminal, simply run:
flatpak install flathub com.usebottles.bottles

Bottles can then be run from your distro app launcher, or from the
command-line:
flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles

Inside Bottles, click the “Create new Bottle…” or “+” button to create a
new bottle. Type a name for the bottle, for example “Melodics”. All the
settings below that are fine (application environment, soda-8.0.2
runner, 64-bit architecture), so just click the “Create” button.
On melodics.com, after creating an account, click “Download for Windows”
and save the installer wherever you are comfortable.
Inside Bottles, click on the Melodics bottle if it is not already open.
Click on “Run Executable…” and select the Melodics installer you have
downloaded. Depending on your OS, you may need to clear the filter at
the bottom of the file selector so that the installer becomes visible.
On its final screen, the Melodics installer will offer to run Melodics.
You may do so to verify Melodics starts on your computer, but will be
stuck once you log into your browser. See below for the missing pieces
of the puzzle.
Inside your Melodics bottle, you should now see a “Melodics” program
which you can simply start using the “▶” button.
Melodics Desktop Integration

Save the following in a file named “melodics.sh”. The script assumes you
have named your bottle “Melodics”, correct the name after --bottle if
you have used another name.
#! /bin/sh

flatpak run --command=bottles-cli com.usebottles.bottles \
    run --bottle Melodics --program Melodics --args $1
You can then install the script in a well-known location. Run this
command from the directory where you have saved “melodics.sh”:
sudo install -m 755 melodics.sh /usr/local/bin/melodics

You can verify everything is OK by simply running melodics in a
terminal. It should launch Melodics.
We’re getting close to completing the puzzle. Save the following in a
file named “melodics.desktop”:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Melodics
Comment=Helps you learn to play your instrument
Exec=/usr/local/bin/melodics %u
Icon=melodics
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=AudioVideo;Audio
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/melodics;
You can now integrate Melodics in your desktop with the following
commands, run from the directory where you saved “melodics.desktop”:
sudo xdg-icon-resource install --novendor --size 256 ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/Melodics/icons/Melodics.png melodics

sudo xdg-desktop-menu install --novendor melodics.desktop

sudo xdg-mime default melodics.desktop x-scheme-handler/melodics
If you have not named your bottle ”Melodics”, edit bottles/Melodics
in the first command with the name of your bottle, for example
bottles/MyBottle.
At this point, you should have a Melodics entry in your distro app
launcher, which should quite simply start Melodics.
Your browser has also been told how to handle melodics:// URLs, which
the website uses once you are logged-in. For those URLs, your browser
will run the melodics script we have installed.
Now, on most distros, everything should work. Start Melodics any way you
want, log-in, if required confirm to your browser that you indeed want
to launch Melodics. This should redirect you back to the app, where you
can finally start practicing your instrument.
If you can start Melodics fine but your browser cannot, some distros
have additional security restrictions, read on…
Ubuntu, Firefox, AppArmor

As an additional layer of protection against malicious web site, Firefox
on Ubuntu has an AppArmor profile that prevents execution of scripts in
/usr/local/bin.
To add an exception for our melodics script, run 

sudo editor /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.firefox 

and add the following line at the end of the file:
  /usr/local/bin/melodics uxr,

You can then tell AppArmor to reload its profiles by running 

sudo systemctl reload apparmor.service.
Everything should finally work fine.