Install DeaDBeeF Music Player 1.8.0 on Ubuntu Linux. DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems. DeaDBeeF Music Player 1.8.0 is released with added Opus support, added ReplayGain Scanner and proper tracks+cue support (in cooperation with wdlkmpx).
DeaDBeeF lets you play variety of audio formats, convert between them, customize the UI almost any way you want, and use many additional plugins which can extend it even more. For Android player based on the same tech, please visit DDB2 website.
Plays nearly anything
- Mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv/iso.wv, wav, m4a/m4b/mp4 (aac and alac), mpc, tta, cd audio, and many more
- Nsf, ay, vtx, vgm/vgz, spc and many other popular chiptune formats
- SID with HVSC song length database support for sid
- Tracker modules – mod, s3m, it, xm, etc
- And even more formats using FFMPEG
Pretty good at reading and writing tags
- ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APEv2, Xing/Info, VorbisComments tag reading and writing, as well as reading many other tag/metadata formats in most supported formats
- Automatic character set detection for non-unicode id3 tags – supports cp1251, iso8859-1, and now chinese cp936 (optional), as well as SHIFT-JIS and MS-DOS CP866 for selected formats
- Unicode tags are fully supported as well (both utf8 and ucs2)
- High quality tag editor, with custom fields support
DeaDBeeF Music Player 1.8.0 – changelog since 0.7.2
- added Opus support
- added ReplayGain Scanner
- added proper tracks+cue support (in cooperation with wdlkmpx)
- added/improved MP4 tag reading and writing
- added loading embedded album art from MP4 files
- added File Copy and File Move converter presets
- added Log Window displaying error information from various sources (in cooperation with Saivert)
- improved replaygain configuration and runtime behavior
- fixed replaygain support in Converter
- improved reading, storing and editing multi-value tag fields
- added GBS support to Game_Music_Emu (kode54)
- added SGC support to Game_Music_Emu
- fixed clipping prevention for mp3, replaygain is applied before clipping
- fixed vfz_zip handling of colons in filenames
- fixed wma decoding precision error
- fixed issues with playing very short files
- fixed a number of known issues in the Converter
- UI splitter proportional resizing (cboxdoerfer)
- added to title formatting: $num, %_path_raw%, %_playlist_name%, $replace, $upper, $lower, %playback_bitrate%, $repeat, $insert, $len, <<<>>>, >>><<<, $pad, $pad_right (saivert)
- added support for dim and bright text in playlist columns (saivert)
- improved detecting GTK theme colors for custom widgets
- added new multiline tag editing dialog for individual values
- added Copy&Paste in playlist (cboxdoerfer)
- added localization support for plugin UI
- added Drag’n’drop support from deadbeef to other applications (cboxdoerfer)
- fixed a number of ogg file tagging issues (kode54)
- fixed multiple crash bugs in AdPlug plugin
- added UMX module support, ported from foo_dumb
- updated Game_Music_Emu and VGMplay (kode54)
- added an option to Converter, to copy the files if the format doesn’t change
- added a converter option to retag the files after copying
- added a context menu action for duplicating playlists (Alex Couture-Beil)
- fixed a number of fadeout issues in Game_Music_Emu
- fixed musepack seeking issue
- fixed loading album covers from ID3v2.2
- fixed mp3 bitrate calculation bug for incomplete files with LAME header
- improved large file support with many internal values converted to use 64 bits for sample counts
- use title formatting for displaying status bar text
- added %seltime% title formatting value, for displaying playback time of selected tracks (Thomas Ross)
- added reading SONGWRITER field from cue sheets (wdlkmpx)
- added playlist group spacing configuration (saivert)
- improved mp3 USLT lyrics support (in copperation with Ignat Loskutov)
- improved playlist browser configurability (Jakub Wasylków)
- added hotkey action for opening track properties (Jakub Wasylków)
- added hotkey actions for add/remove/toggle in playqueue (Jakub Wasylków)
- added –volume command line option (Saivert)
- improved ISRC and subindex handling in CUE (wdlkmpx)
- added hotkey actions to move selected tracks up/down (Jakub Wasylków)
- fixed memory access bugs in config handling and supereq (github/tsowa)
- added charset detection based on the whole ID3v2 tag content
- added automatic charset detection for cdtext (Jakub Wasylków)
- added configuration for output samplerate setting
- removed fast scanning mp3 option, since it was too inaccurate
- improved detection of PSF files, to disambiguate them against other files which use the same extension
- added Edit In Place and Crop options to the track properties menu
- fixed WildMidi playback of some MID files playing more than 1024 simultaneous notes
- fixed playing stereo APE files with single-channel silence
- added wavpack version 5 support with DSD
- fixed performance issue when reading AdPlug’s HSC files
- fixed loading audio files from GVFS volumes
- fixed handling of cuesheets in zip files
- fixed writing tags into tiny ogg files
- fixed handling FLAC files with huge block sizes over 100KB
- replaced mp3 parsing code with the new library, which is more reliable and tested, and can handle even more obscure mp3 files
- renamed Looping and Order menus to Repeat and Shuffle, respectively
- fixed loading larger Songlenths.txt in sid plugin, and added support for Songlengths.md5
Install DeaDBeeF 1.8.0 in Ubuntu
Run the following commands in terminal to Install DeaDBeeF 1.8.0 in Ubuntu:sudo apt update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:spvkgn/deadbeef
sudo apt update
sudo apt install deadbeef-gtk3