After more than a year since the last release, DeaDBeef music player is finally updated version v1.10.0 few days ago.

The new release add support for FFmpeg 7, so it builds in recent Linux Distributions (e.g, Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41) without patch. The release also introduced some new features and various bug-fixes.

DeaDBeef 1.10.0 introduced new Media library feature. User can go to Preferences to enable/disable the feature and specify which folders to look for music files. Then, in “Design Mode” there’s a Media library viewer that can list your songs in a tree grouped with Albums, Artists, Genres, or Folders.

Besides that, the release also added EAC3 (aka Enhanced AC-3 or Dolby Digital Plus (DD+)) support through FFmpeg plugin, TORY frame support for ID3v2.3, and undo/redo support for playlist editing.

There are as well new command options to navigate to next/previous/random album with respect to shuffle mode, and following other changes:

• Add separate config file for storing secrets (e.g., lastfm password).
• Support for relative paths (path from current working directory) when loading DBPL playlists.
• Option to disable low window auto-popup after errors.
• Update adplug library to latest upstream version.
• Fix memory leak, crashes, and other issues, see the NEWS page for details.

How to Install DeadBeef music player

DeadBeef provides pre-build packages for Linux, Windows, macOS, which are available to download at the link below:

For Ubuntu users, there’s also native .deb package (for AMD/Intel platform) available to download at this page. Just download it, then open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install:

sudo apt install /path/to/deb

You need to replace /path/to/deb by drag’n’dropping the package from file manager into terminal.

NOTE: the official deadbeef .deb package conflicts with third-party PPA packages, as they are using different build rules. Remove 3rd party DeaDBeef package if any before installing the official one.

(Optional) To uninstall the official .deb package, use command:

sudo apt remove deadbeef-static