How to run melodics on Linux using Wine

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How to run melodics on Linux using Wine

• Don't know what Melodics is? Watch this great introduction by Slynk
• Download Melodics
• I had audio glitches so I had to run the application like this:

export PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=5\
    && export WINEPREFIX="/home/alinz/.wine"\
    && wine "$USER/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Melodics/Melodics.exe"

• The application will after the login if miss to set the following library override:
  • Open winecfg
  • Optional: Add an application override for Melodics.exe
  • Go to Libraries tab
  • Add a new override for msvcp140.dll
  • It should now show under Existing overrides `msvcp140 (native, builtin)

If you do it this way it won't contaminate the surrounding environment:

env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=5 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" wine "$USER/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Melodics/Melodics.exe"

I needed to add msvcp140_1.dll library to make it work. Thanks for the setup.

I needed to add msvcp140_1.dll library to make it work.

How did you do that? I see no msvcp140_1 in the list of overrides to add in winecfg.

Thanks for the snippet!
I managed to get the mvscp140.dll and get a network connection via https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Failed_to_use_ICMP_.28network_ping.29.2C_this_requires_special_permissions.
The window loads but seems to be stuck at the loading screens blue dot blinking, anyone faced the same issue?

Same problem here. I am just using PlayonLinux without any special configuration.

Argh, same issue here I get a frozen screen with a blue dot and a gray dot.
I added the mvscp140.dll as explained

• launched using env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=5 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" wine "/home/$USER/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Melodics/Melodics.exe"
• did the "sudo apt install --reinstall winbind" following a "002c:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated." error as explained here : https://askubuntu.com/questions/1090094/wine-missing-ntlm-auth-3-0-25
  Now no more error in the console but still stuck with the frozen screen :(
  Any other idea on how to make it run properly ? :)

I was able to add a msvcp140_1.dll override I think you need to be using a more recent version (dev version?) of wine to have that option in winecfg. I see wine-6.10 when I run wine --version.

That said I still get stuck at the blue/gray dot screen on launch

I've had some trouble running the latest version of Melodics (3.x), but I had an older installer (2.x) lying around that still works.

There's a couple more msvcp140*.dlls now, I had to add overrides for the ones that were listed in the Libaries tab in winecfg.

I am running wine-8.3 (Staging) on Arch. With Pipewire there doesn't seem to be any crackling anymore.

(Also, hi @klingtnet! :))

With Pipewire there doesn't seem to be any crackling anymore.

Happy to hear that! Pipewire really is a gift for Linux audio.

(Also, hi @klingtnet! :))

🖖 Hi 😄

I only get to the login screen, when I log in from Firefox the link doesn't know where to open. When I select Melodics from the Application list, it doesn't do anything

I only get to the login screen, when I log in from Firefox the link doesn't know where to open. When I select Melodics from the Application list, it doesn't do anything

Can confirm that this also occurs for me. Is there a fix?

@KingKrouch @terraquad

I've installed Melodics using Lutris and the Proton Experimental runtime.

In order to solve for the login, I've created a script that can set up your oauth URL scheme handler:
https://gist.github.com/wwwehr/dbcb3e7b47c63602a6ebff886ea87cd7

You just need to make sure that you quit your Melodics instance before clicking/activating the xdg-open (mime handler from browser). Workflow is like this:

1. Start Melodics w/ Lutris
2. Click Login
3. (browser launches)
4. Close Melodics/Lutris
5. Login to Melodics website (in browser)
6. Click/allow xdg-open to handle "Melodics Launcher"
7. Dance

I just played a practice session. Everything working great!

@KingKrouch @terraquad

I've installed Melodics using Lutris and the Proton Experimental runtime.

In order to solve for the login, I've created a script that can set up your oauth URL scheme handler: https://gist.github.com/wwwehr/dbcb3e7b47c63602a6ebff886ea87cd7

You just need to make sure that you quit your Melodics instance before clicking/activating the xdg-open (mime handler from browser). Workflow is like this:

1. Start Melodics w/ Lutris
2. Click Login
3. (browser launches)
4. Close Melodics/Lutris
5. Login to Melodics website (in browser)
6. Click/allow xdg-open to handle "Melodics Launcher"
7. Dance

I just played a practice session. Everything working great!

Nice! However, I'm having a bit of an issue with getting Lutris to work fine with installers that aren't on their website, and Lutris honestly has a ton of crashing issues on my end.

How would I adjust this script for regular WINE?

If you can determine a reliable wine launch command line - you can create your own run-melodics-with-scheme.sh and remove the generation lines (that's the lutris stuff). Just make sure you are passing the full value of $1 to the melodics exe as an argument.

FWIW my Lutris install of this was straight forward. No hacks needed, I just did "Add Game > Install a Windows game from an executable > Windows 10 > defaults..."

@wwwehr thanks for the script, this was very helpful in getting me to run Melodics with Bottles, as I documented here: https://gist.github.com/adrienbeau/1d0af5c53a1f952a07b41da02ed2d7c2

By the way, with Bottles there is no need to close the app when you log in, actually login seems to only work when Melodics is kept open.

I have played several lessons just fine, everything seems to work except for one issue: the Guided tab remains empty. Maybe one dependency is missing? There's nothing suspicious in the app logs or Wine messages. Looking at Melodics videos, the contents of that tab seem similar to the other tabs, I don't see what could be wrong. @wwwehr Do you have content in the Guided tab?

@adrienbeau I also have no content in the Guided tab, on a Bottle install.