a player called deadbeef

[shantiq]

was just sent a link to this player called deadbeef and it is very good plays cuefiles and all sorts of formats


* mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv, wav, m4a, alac, mpc,shn,aac/mp4, cd audio (and many more)


* sid, nsf and lots of other popular chiptune formats
* 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
* gtk2 interface with efficient custom widgets
* no GNOME or KDE dependencies
* minimize to tray, with scrollwheel volume control
* drag and drop, both inside of playlist, and from filemanagers and such
* control playback from 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; sdk is included
* duration calculation is as precise as possible for vbr mp3 files (with and without xing/info tags)
* was tested and works on x86, x86_64 and ppc64 architectures. should work on most modern platforms
* plays from zip files



official site downloads/deb etc

or

install= 3 steps one at a time installs the latest version

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexey-smirnov/deadbeef

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install deadbeef

✤Personally favour the portable version these days as it simply sits in your home folder or wherever you wish to have it and works perfectly well


✤Alternative icon lookin' like a busted plectrum:deadbeefmetal25.pngdeadbeefpreto.pngdeadbeefmetal2.png

[jmccrohan]

I have only recently discovered this player. Previously I was running foobar2000 under WINE because I didn't like any of the native players.

[shantiq]

I have only recently discovered this player. Previously I was running foobar2000 under WINE because I didn't like any of the native players.

there is also qmmp in your synaptic which is really really good and if you want the older stuff but really cool try xmms not in your synaptic but much info here also aqualung in your synaptic

[panos_thes]

I cannot make it work in Lucid 10.04 LTS, no sound. Anyone can help me setting up the preferences?

[shantiq]

yes had the same


simple answer

go to Edit/Preferences/sound then pick output device default audio device


see in the picture attached

[panos_thes]

yeah, works like that! thanks
Also, i can play songs only when i marked them, right click open with deadbeef, drag and drop to playlist doesn't do anything.

[phillw]

AFAIK deadbeef cannot yet import playlists from other systems, but it is certainly a nice player.

Regards,

Phill.

[d3v1150m471c]

just use vlc

[phillw]

just use vlc

I have both installed, but as a lubuntu user I have found deadbeef to be far less resource hungry for music, yet being able to handle large collections of music. Every byte of RAM and cycle of CPU is important. VLC is IMHO a very good DVD player

Regards,

Phill.

[d3v1150m471c]

ffplay or cvlc