{"id":50783,"date":"2026-03-20T08:15:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=50783"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:15:05","slug":"deadbeef-1-10-2-added-mpris-plugin-for-remote-playback-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/deadbeef-1-10-2-added-mpris-plugin-for-remote-playback-control\/","title":{"rendered":"DeadBeef 1.10.2 added MPRIS Plugin for Remote Playback Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DeadBeef, the lightweight music player application for Linux, Windows, and macOS, released new 1.10.2 version few days ago.<\/p>\n

This free open-source music player released version 1.10.1 last week with new Lyrics Viewer plugin<\/b>. User can enable “Design” mode and add Lyrics<\/i> widget to show the lyrics for the song being played.<\/p>\n

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The plugin however only display but not fetch lyrics from the web, meaning it will display “Lyrics Not Available” if your songs do not have lyrics built-in.<\/p>\n

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DeadBeef Lyrics Viewer widget<\/p><\/div>\n

The last version also added support FLAC (Ogg\/FLAC) network streaming<\/i>. Simply go to File -> Add location, then paste the link to your media and click OK to enjoy.<\/p>\n

The DSP presets that store the configuration of audio adjustments, such as EQ and resampler, has a redesigned preferences page that features drag’n’drop re-arranging, new duplicate action, and ability to add, remove, edit, and duplicate saved presets.<\/p>\n

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The Album art display widget by default shows the album art for the selected track<\/em>. User can right-click on it to choose “Playing Track<\/em>“, which will however display nothing when no audio is being played.<\/p>\n

To improve the feature, a new “Playing or Selected<\/em>” mode is added. In the case, it will display the album art for either playing track, or selected track if nothing’s being played.<\/p>\n

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Other changes include the ability to use mouse forward<\/code>\/backward<\/code> buttons to play next or previous, default to GTK3 for UI plugin, new stop after playback queue<\/em> option, as well as infinite looping support for SID files.<\/p>\n

With the new 1.10.2, it finally has out-of-the-box support for MPRIS (multimedia keys)<\/b>, the standard D-Bus interface for controlling media players remotely.<\/p>\n

Meaning you can now control music playback either by using keyboard media keys (previously implemented via global shortcuts), panel widget (e.g., GNOME data & time menu), or even from Gnome 49+ lock screen. Or, query and control player from command line, scripts, or remotely through a mobile device.<\/p>\n

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Other changes in recent DeadBeef 1.10.1 and 1.10.2 include:<\/p>\n