DeadDBeeF 1.8.0 release

Three years after the previous release, a new version of the DeaDBeeF audio player has been released. According to the developers, it has become quite mature, which was displayed in the version number.

List of changes

  • added Opus support
  • added ReplayGain Scanner
  • correct tracks added + cue support (in collaboration with wdlkmpx)
  • added/improved reading and writing MP4 tags
  • added loading embedded album art from MP4 files
  • added presets File Copy and File Move
  • added a log window displaying error information from various sources (in collaboration with Saivert)
  • improved playback configuration and runtime behavior
  • fixed playback support in converter
  • improved reading, storing and editing fields of multivalued tags
  • added GBS support for Game_Music_Emu (kode54)
  • added SGC support for Game_Music_Emu
  • fixed clipping prevention for mp3, replay applied before clipping
  • fixed handling of colons in vfz_zip filenames
  • fixed wma decoding accuracy bug
  • fixed problems with playing very short files
  • Fixed a number of known issues in the Converter
  • Proportional resizing of the UI splitter (cboxdoerfer)
    added to header formatting: $num, %_path_raw%, %_playlist_name%, $replace, $upper, $lower, %play_bitrate%, $repeat, $insert, $len, <<< >>>, >>> << <, $pad, $pad_right(saivert)
  • added support for dim and bright text in playlist columns (saivert)
  • improved detection of GTK theme colors for custom widgets
  • added new multi-line tag edit dialog for individual values
  • added copy and paste to playlist (cboxdoerfer)
  • added localization support for plugin UI
  • added support for Drag'n'drop from deadbeef to other apps (cboxdoerfer)
  • fixed a number of issues with ogg file tags (kode54)
  • fixed multiple crash bugs in AdPlug plugin
  • added support for UMX module, ported from foo_dumb
  • updated Game_Music_Emu and VGMplay (code54)
  • added option to converter to copy files if format doesn't change
  • added gtkui.start_hidden config option to start the player with the main window hidden (free via Radics Péter)
  • added converter option to re-add files after copying
  • Added context menu action to duplicate playlists (Alex Couture-Beil)
  • fixed a number of disappearance issues in Game_Music_Emu
  • fixed Musepack search bug
  • fixed album art loading from ID3v2.2
  • fixed mp3 bitrate calculation error for incomplete files with LAME header
  • improved support for large files with many internal values ​​converted to use 64 bits for counting samples
  • use header formatting to display text in the status bar
  • added %seltime% header formatting value, to display the playing time of selected tracks (Thomas Ross)
  • added SONGWRITER field reading from control sheets (wdlkmpx)
  • added playlist playgroup configuration (saivert)
  • improved mp3 support in USLT format (in cooperation with Ignat Loskutov)
  • improved playlist browser configuration (Jakub Wasylków)
  • Added hotkey action to open track properties (Jakub Wasylków)
  • added hotkeys to add/remove/switch in the playback queue (Jakub Wasylków)
  • added command line option --volume (Saivert)
  • improved ISRC and subindex handling in CUE (wdlkmpx)
  • added hotkeys to move selected tracks up/down (Jakub Wasylków)
  • fixed memory access errors when processing configuration and supereq (github/tsowa)
  • added encoding definition based on the entire contents of the ID3v2 tag
  • Added automatic encoding detection for cdtext (Jakub Wasylków)
  • added config to adjust output sample rate
  • removed quick scan mp3 option as it was too inaccurate
  • improved detection of PSF files to get rid of them compared to other files that use the same extension
  • added edit-in-place and trim options to the track properties menu
  • fixed WildMidi playback of some MID files playing more than 1024 simultaneous notes
  • fixed playback of APE stereo files with single-channel silence
  • added support for wavpack version 5 with DSD
  • fixed performance issue when reading AdPlug HSC files
  • fixed loading audio files from GVFS volumes
  • fixed handling of cuesheets in zip files
  • fixed writing tags to tiny ogg files
  • fixed handling of FLAC files with huge block sizes over 100 KB
  • replaced mp3 parsing code with a new library that is more robust and tested and can handle even more obscure mp3 files
  • renamed Looping and Order menus to Repeat and Shuffle respectively
  • fixed loading of larger Songlenths.txt in sid plugin and added support for Songlengths.md5

Source: linux.org.ru

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