Package:DeaDBeeF

DeaDBeeF

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DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris and other UNIX-like systems. There's also the Android version, which is a very different product. There are no Windows, OSX or iOS versions though, sorry for that.

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

• mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv/iso.wv, wav, m4a/mp3 (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
• 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)
• cuesheet (.cue files) support, including charset detection/conversion
• clean fast GUI using GTK2 and GTK3, you pick what you like more!
• no GNOME or KDE dependencies
• minimization to system tray, with scrollwheel volume control, etc
• drag and drop, both in playlist, and from other apps
• control playback from command line
• global hotkeys
• multiple playlists using tabbed interface
• album cover display
• OSD notifications about current playing songs
• 18-band graphical equalizer and other DSP plugins
• built-in high quality tag editor, with custom fields support
• customizable groups in playlists
• customizable columns with flexible title formatting
• streaming radio support for ogg vorbis, mp3 and aac streams
• gapless playback for correctly encoded files
• lots of plugin, such as global hotkeys, last.fm scrobbler, converter, and many more, sdk is included
• comes with advanced Converter plugin, which allows to transcode files to other formats
• was tested on x86, x86_64, powerpc, arm, mips architectures, should work on most modern platforms
• new features are being added all the time -- check for updates frequently!

Installing DeaDBeeF

To install deadbeef, emerge it:

root # emerge deadbeef

Support of remote locations

In order to be able to listen to remote sources (File -> Add Location), you will need to compile it with cURL plugin:

root # echo "media-sound/deadbeef curl" >> /etc/portage/package.use
root # emerge deadbeef

Installing DeaDBeeF 3rd Party Plugins

deadbeef-plugins-meta package will be automatically pulled in when you install deadbeef player. It has many use flags which are described at the metadata.xml. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/damex/funtoo-deadbeef/master/media-plugins/deadbeef-plugins-meta/metadata.xml If you want to emerge one of those plugins - just enable that use flag for deadbeef-plugins-meta and emerge it:

root # emerge deadbeef-plugins-meta