DeaDBeeF 0.5.0 RC1 Is Released

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris and probably other UNIX-like systems. It is mainly written by Alexey Yakovenko, with contributions from a lot of different people (see about box in the player for more details). This is a beta version so expect bugs. You can download a portable version of 0.5.0 RC1 as packages are not available in PPA yet.


this build is as close to final 0.5 as possible, except few cosmetic changes need to be done, such as Changelog update, fresh translations, etc.

You can download DeaDBeeF 0.5.0 RC1 from here. Once downloaded extract the content of the tar.bz2 file. To start DeaDBeeF just double click on the file named deadbeef.

short list of changes since beta2:

binary build now has translations
fixed AudioOverload plugin mem corruption bug
fixed loading AudioOverload psf libs from archives
many fixes in tags display, loading and editing
several converter presets are now bundled, and available without any manual work
fixed aac plugin in binary build
added libpng support to notify plugin
added –play-pause cmdline option
fixed crash bug when loading 0.4.4 eq config
fixed foobar2000 eq preset importing
fixed freebsd compile problems
fixed major bug in playlist sorting
added apev2 tag reading/writing to tta plugin
fixed apev2 writer to store multiline fields as single frames

and many more less-major fixes.