Audio player
DeaDBeeF DeaDBeeF's main window on Mac OS
Original author Oleksiy Yakovenko Initial release August 2009 Stable release 1.10.0
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; 10 months ago (25 March 2025 ) Written in C ,C++ ,Objective-C ,Assembly language Operating system Unix-like (Linux , *BSD ,OpenSolaris ),macOS ,Windows ,Android Platform x86 ,x86-64 ,ARM Type Audio player License GPLv2 ,LGPLv2.1 ,zlib , various free and open-source software licenses (plugins)Website deadbeef Repository
DeaDBeeF is anaudio player software available forWindows ,Linux and otherUnix-like operating systems.[ 2] [ 3] Android version is available, but has not been updated since 2017. DeaDBeeF isfree and open-source software , except on Android.
The player was first published in August 2009.[ 4] magic number 0xDEADBEEF .
Among DeaDBeeF's functionalities are included:[ 5] [ 6]
Support for formatsMP3 ,FLAC ,APE , TTA,Vorbis ,WavPack ,Musepack ,AAC ,ALAC ,WMA ,WAV ,DTS ,audio CD , many forms ofmodule files and music fromgame consoles . TAK andOpus are supported viaffmpeg /libav . Cuesheet support, both in built-in format and external files. iso.wv support.Character encodingsWindows-1251 andISO 8859-1 are supported in addition toUTF-8 . The program doesn't have any dependencies onGNOME ,KDE orgstreamer . Plug-in architecture.Gapless playback .Customizable systemd notifications (OSD). Read and write support for playlists in formatM3U andPLS . Network playback ofpodcasts usingSHOUTcast ,Icecast , MMS,HTTP andFTP . Customizable globalkeyboard shortcuts . Tag support (read and write) forID3v1, ID3v2 ,APEv2 ,Vorbis comments , iTunes. Mass tagging and flexible tagging (custom tags). High-quality resampling. Bit-perfect output under certain configurations. Sound output viaALSA ,PulseAudio ,PipeWire andOSS. Scrobbling tolast.fm ,libre.fm or any GNU FM server. En masse transcoder .ReplayGain support.Multi-channel playback.18-bandequalizer . Simplecommand-line user interface as well asgraphical user interface implemented inGTK+ (version 2 or 3). The GUI is fully customizable. Wikimedia Commons has media related to
DeaDBeeF .
