DeaDBeeF – ultimate music player

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is billed as the ultimate music player for Linux systems.

It is a very basic and simple player with a small footprint.

It has no GNOME or KDE dependencies.

Features include:

• Small memory footprint.
• Native GTK2 graphical user interface with custom widgets.
• Wide support for different audio formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, ape,  wv, wav, m4a, mpc, cd audio (and many more).
• Chiptune formats with subtunes (including sid and nsf).
• ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APEv2, xing/info tags support.
• Character set detection for non-unicode id3 tags – supports cp1251 and iso8859-1.
• Unicode tags are fully supported as well (both utf8 and ucs2).
• Cuesheet (.cue files) support, with charset detection (utf8/cp1251/iso8859-1).
• Tracker modules like mod, s3m, it, xm, etc.
• HVSC song length database support for sid.
• Minimize to tray, with scrollwheel volume control.
• Drag and drop, both inside of playlist, and from filemanagers and such.
• Control playback of DeaDBeeF from the command line.
• Global hotkeys.
• Multiple playlists.
• Album artwork display.
• 18-band graphical equalizer.
• Metadata editor.
• User-customizable groups in playlists.
• User-customizable columns with flexible title formatting.
• Radio and podcast support for ogg vorbis, mp3 and aac streams.
• Gapless playback.
• Plugin support; bundled with lots of plugins, such as global hotkeys and last.fm scrobbler.
• Duration calculation is as precise as possible for vbr mp3 files (with and without xing/info tags).

Website: deadbeef.sourceforge.io
Support: GitHub
Developer: Alexey Yakovenkot and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

DeaDBeeF is written in C and C++. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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