DeaDBeeF audio player 1.8.8 was released as the 8th bugfix release for the 1.8 series.
The new release introduced some new features, including reading WAV RIFF tags, handling of Disc subtitle frames in ID3v2 and APE tags, and handling samplerates higher than 192KHz to pulseaudio.
New context menu options “Play Next” and “Play Later” are now available to choose your favorite song to play next, or set one-time play order for songs in play list. It will add marks at the beginning that indicates the sequence.
It also redesigned the plugin page in Preferences. Now each plugin has the configuration along with basic info and license in tabs.
Other changes in DeaDBeef 1.8.8 includes:
- Non-modal preferences window
$rgb()title formatting function- Group title colorization support via title formatting
- Plugin report and filtering in Plugin list
- Focusable playlist tabs with keyboard navigation support
- Sorting plugin list alphabetically
- Improved album path handling, especially for Windows
- Drag-and-drop on the main window
- Using scroll wheel with seek bar
- Delete from disk dialog will highlight the Delete button as destructive action
- And some stability fixes.
How to Install DeaDBeeF 1.8.8 in Ubuntu:
The software offers official .deb package for 64-bit Ubuntu & Linux Mint systems.
Grab the package, ‘deadbeef-static_1.8.8-1_amd64.deb’, then install it by running command in terminal:
sudo apt install ~/Downloads/deadbeef-static*.deb
There’s also an Ubuntu PPA for DeaDBeeF, though it’s not updated at the moment of writing. And note that the PPA package conflicts to the official ‘deadbeef-static‘ package due to packaging issue. Remove the old package first if you’re going to install it from another source.
Remove DeaDBeeF:
To remove the music player, simply run command in terminal:
sudo apt remove --autoremove deadbeef-static deadbeef
