You can run QMP on Linux with Wine. Here's a step by step procedure that should get you up & running.

1. Download Wine from here NOTE: Many distros now allow you to install the latest binaries. E.g. for Ubuntu use 'sudo apt-get install wine'.

2. Download the QCD/QMP installer and save it somewhere on the drive

3. Execute the installer which should be recognised by Wine. If not, open a console and type in the appropriate directory “wine qcd451.exe” (or “wine qmpxxx.exe” fr example) or use “Run command” in the start menu of KDE

5. Install into the appropriate directory NOTE: You MUST deselect the MediaLibrary. It will currently cause qmp to freeze!

6. When the installation finished, QCD/QMP can be automatically be launched.

7. Everytime you make a change it is better to close the QCD/QMP player and launch it again. You'll see that Wine made sure that there is a shortcut on your desktop. Click on it to launch QCD/QMP again. Then go to preferences to make sure you are using the waveout playback plugin.

8. Unlike previous versions of wine, nothing further has to be done to play your music. However, you cannot play music in another player at the same time.

9. Quicktrack works too

10. To enable the music browser, you need the wine Gecko engine. Two methods may work for you.

Press F5 whilst on the music browser tab. This should bring up another window which asks if you want to install the wine gecko engine.

Alternatively do the following:

• Open the terminal and type:

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab && cabextract wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab

• Next, run the following to create the directories needed for Gecko:

mkdir -p ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/

• Place the extracted Gecko files into the newly created directory:

mv wine_gecko ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/gecko/0.1.0/

• Run regedit in the terminal. Go to HKEY_Current_User/Software/Wine/MSHTML and create a new key labelled “0.1.0”

• In the new “0.1.0” key, create a new string value labelled “GeckoPath” and set the string value to “c:\windows\gecko\0.1.0\wine_gecko”

• Go to the Useful Registry Keys page ( http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys ) and scroll down to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE section. Add all of the Internet Explorer keys/strings to the registry.

• To test if you were successful type in the terminal:

wine iexplore http://www.winehq.org

11. If you minimize qmp, it will not restore properly. Press F5 to restore the GUI.

That should be it. GL and HF!