The DeadBeef music player now is available for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander in its PPA repository after Canonical released the Ubuntu 13.10 Final.
As you may know, DeedBeef is a free audio player for Linux only. It has following features:
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!
Install Deadbeef Music Player:
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:starws-box/deadbeef-player
Then you can install it from Ubuntu Software Center after checking for updates. Or run below commands instead:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install deadbeef
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sounds good but where’s the windows port?
Microsoft Windows? Oops, this is an audio player for GNU Linux. There are no Windows, OSX or iOS versions though, sorry for that.