DeaDBeeF - Ultimate Music Player For GNU/Linux

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux systems. It is mainly written by Alexey Yakovenko, with contributions from a lot of different people. It is distributed under the terms of General Public License version 2.

DeadBeef is a fully-featured music player which uses very few system resources (around 9 mb of RAM on my system) and comes with a clean and nice user interface and a lot of plugin. (It seems inspired by Foobar.) From my point of vie the best music player and music libary manager out there. It is simple and efficient.

Whilst the following RAM comparison isn’t by any means perfect – it does show that it is a lightweight choice for any user:

• Banshee : 58.6MiB
• DeaDBeeF: 11.8 MiB
• Clementine: 54.2MiB
• Rhythmbox: 59.8MiB

About the name: 0xDEADBEEF ("dead beef") is a magical number used by IBM RS/6000 systems, Mac OS on 32-bit PowerPC processors and the Commodore Amiga as a magic debug value. On Sun Microsystems' Solaris, it marks freed kernel memory.

Main features (the list is most likely far from complete):

• mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv, wav, m4a, mpc, 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