DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11 (though now it also runs in plain console without X, in FreeBSD, and in OpenSolaris).
To install DeaDBeeF on Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04 open a Terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and copy+paste the following lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexey-smirnov/deadbeef
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install deadbeef
When DeaDBeeF is installed you can find it under Applications -> Audio & Video -> DeaDBeeF
DeaDBeef Homepage
Main features (the list is most likely far from complete):
- mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv, wav, m4a, mpc, cd audio (and many more)
- sid, nsf and lots of other popular chiptune formats
- ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APEv2, xing/info tags support
- character set detection for non-unicode id3 tags – supports cp1251 and iso8859-1
- unicode tags are fully supported as well (both utf8 and ucs2)
- cuesheet (.cue files) support, with charset detection (utf8/cp1251/iso8859-1)
- tracker modules like mod, s3m, it, xm, etc
- HVSC song length database support for sid
- gtk2 interface with efficient custom widgets
- no GNOME or KDE dependencies
- minimize to tray, with scrollwheel volume control
- drag and drop, both inside of playlist, and from filemanagers and such
- control playback from command line
- global hotkeys
- multiple playlists
- album artwork display
- 18-band graphical equalizer
- metadata editor
- user-customizable groups in playlists
- user-customizable columns with flexible title formatting
- radio and podcast support for ogg vorbis, mp3 and aac streams
- gapless playback
- plugin support; bundled with lots of plugins, such as global hotkeys and last.fm scrobbler; sdk is included
- duration calculation is as precise as possible for vbr mp3 files (with and without xing/info tags)
- was tested and works on x86, x86_64 and ppc64 architectures. should work on most modern platforms