The new version of DeaDBeeF 1.8.8 has already been released and these are its news

The launch of the new version of the music player Deadbeef 1.8.8 which is the eighth corrective version of the 1.8.x series of the player and in this new version some important changes have been added, such as the processing of metadata in ID3v2 and APE tags, as well as improvements in the interface, improvements to the lists of add-ons and more.

For those who are unfamiliar with DeaDBeeF, you should know that this is a music player that has automatic recoding of text encoding on labels, equalizer, support for reference files, minimal dependencies, the ability to control via the command line or from the system tray.

Likewise has the ability to load and display covers, a built-in tag editor, flexible possibilities to display required fields in song lists, support for Internet radio streaming, seamless playback, the presence of a plug-in for transcoding content.

Main new features of DeaDBeeF 1.8.8

In this new version of DeaDBeeF 1.8.8 we can find that added tabs with playlists, for which focus change is supported and keyboard navigation, toother than that the handling of file paths to albums has been greatly improved.

We may also find that a warning about the destructive nature of the delete operation has been added to the dialog for working with files and that When broadcasting via Pulseaudio, support for sample rates above 192 KHz is implemented.

Another of the changes that stands out in this new version of DeaDBeeF 1.8.8 is the new metadata processing with album name (disc subtitle) on ID3v2 and APE tags.

Also now plugin list now supports filters and displays information about plugins, sort plugins alphabetically and support was also added to be able to change the color of the headers. The $ rgb () function has been added to the header formatting tools.

Of the other changes that stand out of this new version:

  • Improved interface for configuring plugins.
  • A modeless window with settings has been implemented.
  • Added ability to read WAV RIFF tags.
  • The main window offers the possibility to move elements in drag and drop mode.
  • The play position indicator now supports rewinding with the mouse wheel.
  • The "Play Next" button has been added to the context menu.
  • Fixed crash errors when using PSF plugin and reading some files in AAC format.

Finally if you want to know more about it, you can check the details In the following link. 

How to install DeadBeef 1.8.8?

If you want to install this music player on your systems, you must follow the instructions that we share below. For now the player is only available from its executable, which you can download from the link below.

Once the download is done, they must unzip the package, which they can do from a terminal. To do this, they must open one (they can do it with the shortcut keys Ctrl + Alt + T) and in it they will position themselves on the folder where they downloaded the package and they will type the following command:

tar -xf deadbeef-static_1.8.8-1_x86_64.tar.bz2

Once this is done, now they must enter the resulting folder and can open the player with its executable file that is inside the folder either by giving execution permissions with:

sudo chmod +x deadbeef

And by double clicking on it or from the same terminal with:

./deadbeef

Although there is also an application repository, which will not take long to update the new version. To perform the installation we must add the application repository in our system, which we can do by opening a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and executing the following commands in it.

First we add the repository with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:starws-box/deadbeef-player

We give enter to accept, now we are going to update the list of repositories and applications with:

sudo apt-get update

And finally we proceed to install the player with the following command:

sudo apt-get install deadbeef

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