Audio player
DeaDBeeF DeaDBeeF's main window on Mac OS
Original author(s) Alexey Yakovenko Initial release August 2009 Stable release 1.9.6
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/ 7 November 2023
; 7 months ago (7 November 2023 )
Repository Written in C , C++ , Objective-C , Assembly language Operating system Unix-like (Linux , *BSD , OpenSolaris ), macOS , Windows , Android Platform x86 , x86-64 , ARM Type Audio player License GPLv2 , LGPLv2.1 , zlib , various free and open-source software licenses (plugins)Website deadbeef.sourceforge.net
DeaDBeeF is an audio player software available for Windows , Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.[2] [3] An ad-supported Android version is available, but has not been updated since 2017. DeaDBeeF is free and open-source software , except on Android.
History
The player was first published in August 2009.[4] Its author cited dissatisfaction with existing music players under Linux as the main reason for writing DeaDBeeF. The name is a reference to the magic number 0xDEADBEEF.
Characteristics
Among DeaDBeeF's functionalities are included:[5] [6]
Support for formats MP3 , FLAC , APE , TTA, Vorbis , WavPack , Musepack , AAC , ALAC , WMA , WAV , DTS , audio CD , many forms of module files and music from game consoles . TAK and Opus are supported via ffmpeg /libav .
Cuesheet support, both in built-in format and external files. iso.wv support.
Character encodings Windows-1251 and ISO 8859-1 are supported in addition to UTF-8 .
The program doesn't have any dependencies on GNOME , KDE or gstreamer .
Plug-in architecture.
Gapless playback .
Customizable systemd notifications (OSD).
Read and write support for playlists in format M3U and PLS .
Network playback of podcasts using SHOUTcast , Icecast , MMS, HTTP and FTP .
Customizable global keyboard shortcuts .
Tag support (read and write) for ID3v1, ID3v2 , APEv2 , Vorbis comments , iTunes.
Mass tagging and flexible tagging (custom tags).
High-quality resampling.
Bit-perfect output under certain configurations.
Sound output via ALSA , PulseAudio and OSS.
Scrobbling to last.fm , libre.fm or any GNU FM server.
En masse transcoder .
ReplayGain support.
Multi-channel playback.
18-band equalizer .
Simple command-line user interface as well as graphical user interface implemented in GTK+ (version 2 or 3). The GUI is fully customizable.