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DeaDBeeF is a modular cross-platform audio player, which runs on GNU/Linux distributions, macOS, Windows, *BSD, OpenSolaris, other UNIX-like systems.

DeaDBeeF plays a variety of audio formats, converts between them, lets you customize the UI in almost any way you want, and use many additional plugins which can extend it even more.

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Plays mp3, ogg, flac/oga, ape, wav, wv/iso.wv, aac/m4a, alac, mpc/mpp/mp+, tta, wma, shn, sid, nsf, mod, s3m, vtx, vgm/vgz, psf, midi, audio cds, all formats supported by ffmpeg, dumb, gme, libsndfile, adplug, and more!
Light on memory and CPU use
Expandable through plugins + many existing plugins available
Supports cuesheets (from .cue files, and embedded), reading and writing m3u and pls playlists
Plays internet radio (shoutcast, icecast, mms), as well as normal mp3 files over http and ftp (e.g. from podcasts)
Global hot-keys
Reads and writes ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2, VorbisComment, MP4 tags
Auto-detects charset of non-unicode tags
User-customizable playlist columns with title-formatting
High quality resampling using libsamplerate or libretro
Playback using ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio, PipeWire, CoreAudio
Last.fm/Libre.fm scrobbler
Sample-accurate seeking and gapless playback support for many formats
Multiple playlists organized in tabs
Album art display, fetching covers from music folders, file tags, last.fm
18-band equalizer with presets, with importing of fb2k eq presets
Track grouping using title-formatting
Album art display in playlist
Customizable OSD notifications with album covers
Configurable converter/transcoder
Replay gain - playback and scanner
Play files directly from zip archives
Custom tag fields
Multichannel playback, support for integer 8, 16, 24, 32 and float 32 bit sound output
Localized into many languages
Media Library with customizable tree view

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artecnico Posted 2025-03-28

Great app!
nospam2000 Posted 2025-03-28

Great music player! Sound quality is awesome (I use it over AirPlay). Can show the navigation tree either by filesystem folders or by MP3 tags. Filtering for matching songs is very fast.
source-maniac Posted 2023-05-18

A very nice music player, but it still can't play multi track ALAC, FLAC and WAVPACK files correctly, the are detected as single files. Please remake to, this one has so much potential
acerbic Posted 2021-04-09

A new star among audio players on macOS?
nevgi Posted 2021-02-12

It is the best minimal music player and I love it. But i would like to have a darkmode for windows version. And my songs album arts isnt being displayed only few of them are.