I've managed to get Ableton 10 running on Ubuntu 16 via Wine. The app seems to run fine, and I am able to drag wav files into audio tracks, however I'm not able to do the same with mp3 files, I get the error "file may be corrupt or not licensed", which typically means the appropriate codec is not installed ().
I have tried installing various codecs (CCCP, K-Lite, winetricks windowscodecs), but with no luck... Ableton 10 is also 64bit only, so I might be doing something wrong there with regards to installing codecs in wine for 64bit maybe? I'm not sure...
I could do with knowing if I am exploring the right avenue, and if so how can I go further troubleshooting this issue... At this point I am half guessing and installing any and all codecs in an attempt to get it to work...
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This is most likely a problem with Ableton itself, not with WINE or any codecs. Sometimes, when I try to drag mp3 tracks to make a mix, on Windows 7 with Ableton 9.0 and 9.5, the same error appears. At other times, Ableton loads mp3 files without any problems.
I am able to work around the issue by renaming the file extension to wav.
