DeaDBeeF 1.8.8 music player release is available. The source texts of the project are distributed under the GPLv2 license. The player is written in C language and can work with a minimal set of dependencies. The interface is built using the GTK+ library, supports tabs and can be extended through widgets and plugins.
Among the features: automatic transcoding of text encoding in tags, an equalizer, support for cue files, a minimum of dependencies, the ability to control via the command line or from the system tray, the ability to load and display covers, a built-in tag editor, flexible options for displaying the required fields in song lists, support for streaming Internet radio, playback without pauses, the presence of a plug-in for transcoding content.
Major changes:
- Implemented processing of metadata with the album name (Disc subtitle) in ID3v2 and APE tags.
- Improved interface for configuring plugins.
- A modeless window with settings has been implemented.
- Added support for changing the color of titles. The $rgb() function has been added to the header format detection tools.
- In the list of plugins, support for filters and displaying information about plugins is implemented. Sorting plugins alphabetically.
- Added tabs with playlists that support focus change and keyboard navigation.
- Added ability to read WAV RIFF tags.
- Improved handling of file paths to albums.
- The main window provides the ability to move elements in Drag-and-drop mode.
- Support for rewinding using the mouse wheel has been added to the playback position indicator.
- The "Play Next" button has been added to the context menu.
- When outputting via Pulseaudio, support for sampling rates greater than 192KHz is implemented.
- Added a warning about the destructive nature of the delete operation in the file dialog.
- Fixed crashes when using the PSF plugin and reading some AAC files.
Source: opennet.ru
