DeaDBeeF - lightweight music player

DeaDBeeF is a free and open source, multiple-platform modern, simple and minimalist modular audio player

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Supports playback of formats: MP3, OGG, FLAC/OGA, APE, WAV, WV/ISO. wv, AAC/M4A, ALAC, MPC/MPP/MP+, TTA, WMA, SHN, SID, NSF, MOD, S3M, VTX, VGM/VGZ, PSF, MIDI, audio CDs, all formats supported by FFMPEG, DUMB, GME, Libsndfile, Adplug and others;
Creation/save and load playlists in m3u and pls formats (each playlist opens in a new program tab);
Support for national win-1251 encoding in ID3 and cuesheet tags, auto-detection of win-1251 and ISO 8859-1 encodings;
Supports cuesheets (from files .cue and embedded);
Play Internet radio format shoutcast/icecast (mp3, aac), mms (wma), play regular mp3 files over http and ftp (podcasts);
Support for customizable system notifications (OSD) with the ability to display album art;
Scrobbling Last.fm and Libre.fm;
Displaying album covers, extracting covers from music folders, id3v2 and apev2, last tags.fm and albumart.org;
Read and write ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2, vorbis-comments tags, read mp4 itunes tags tags, support for bulk tag editing;
There is an audio file converter with the ability to convert tracks in bulk;
There is an 18-band equalizer with presets, with the import of fb2k eq presets;
There is a function to search for tracks that require volume normalization (ReplayGain Scanner);
ReplayGain support;
Support for playing files directly from zip archives;
There is a built-in tag editor;
There is a play mode without pauses;
Playback functions: play/pause/stop, switch tracks (next/previous), change volume, rewind, shuffle (turn off/tracks/albums/random tracks), repeat (all tracks/single tracks/turn off), stop after the current track/album;
It is possible to add and edit playlist columns;
Can be sorted by title, track number, album, artist, date, random, custom;
There is a possibility of control via the command line;
There is a search;
Multi-channel playback, support for integer 8, 16, 24, 32 and floating 32-bit audio output;
Integration with the system tray;
Color settings: program, tabs, and playlist;
Proxy support;
Plugin Support;
Support for custom keyboard shortcuts.

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Installation

The software DeaDBeeF is available for installation on Linux, Windows and macOS.

Installation method	OS
PPA	Ubuntu* 18.04/19.04/20.04, Linux Mint, Debian
Deb	Ubuntu*, Linux Mint, Debian
RPM	openSUSE, Rosa Linux, Mageia, ALT Linux, Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and others
EXE	Windows
.App	macOS

*Ubuntu (GNOME), Kubuntu (KDE), Xubuntu (XFCE), Lubuntu (LXDE)

Install Software via PPA repository

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:spvkgn/deadbeef
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install deadbeef

Install Software via Deb package

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Install Software via RPM package

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Install Software via EXE package on Windows

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Install Software via .App package for macOS

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Software Information

Language Interface:	English, Russian, Deutsch, Spanish, French and others
Description version:	1.8.7
Developer:	Alexey Yakovenko and other contributors
Programming language:	C, C++
License:	LGPL v2.1
Software website:	deadbeef.sourceforge.io

03.02.24: added new installation methods: PPA, Deb, RPM; the outdated installation method has been removed: Snap.

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