What is DeaDBeeF?

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems.

For Android player based on the same tech, please visit DDB2 website.

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

* The screenshot above demonstrates a highly customized DeaDBeeF, running on Linux with several additional plugins

Plays nearly anything you throw at it

Mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv/iso.wv, wav, m4a/m4b/mp4 (aac and alac), mpc, tta, cd audio, and many more

Nsf, ay, vtx, vgm/vgz, spc and many other popular chiptune formats

SID with HVSC song length database support for sid

Tracker modules - mod, s3m, it, xm, etc

And even more formats using FFMPEG

Pretty good at reading and writing tags

ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APEv2, Xing/Info, VorbisComments tag reading and writing, as well as reading many other tag/metadata formats in most supported formats

Automatic character set detection for non-unicode id3 tags - supports cp1251, iso8859-1, and now chinese cp936 (optional), as well as SHIFT-JIS and MS-DOS CP866 for selected formats

Unicode tags are fully supported as well (both utf8 and ucs2)

High quality tag editor, with custom fields support

Very nice Cuesheet support, automatically splitting albums into tracks for you.

Cuesheet (.cue files) support, including charset detection/conversion

Embedded and external ones

Smart heuristics for matching audio files with cuesheet files

Additionally, chapter information can be extracted and used from selected formats, such as m4b audiobooks, ogg files, etc.

DeaDBeeF is compact and efficient

Each platform's native UI toolkit is employed to deliver the best experience

GTK2, GTK3, ALSA and PulseAudio on Unix systems

Cocoa and CoreAudio on Mac

Direct approach to organizing your music

Your files are added to the player directly from the filesystem

Multiple playlists using tabs or a playlist browser

Sort and group the tracks in any order you wish, using advanced Title Formatting scripting, compatible with Foobar2000

Need that extra bass punch?

18-band graphical equalizer and other DSP plugins

Highly customizable DSP pipeline with a number of plugins available

Other niceties!

Gapless playback for correctly encoded files

Replaygain - including the Scanner!

What about album art?

You can enable displaying Album Art (see the Help page in the player on how to do that)

It can be loaded from image files, or from audio file tags

The image files can be automatically downloaded from various web services

Network features!

Streaming radio support for selected formats and transports

Most popular formats are supported, such as MP3, OGG, AAC, WMA

Shoutcast/Icecast and MMS protocols are supported out of the box

Quickly convert your music to a format that you need

DeaDBeeF comes with advanced Converter plugin, which allows to transcode files to other formats

Especially useful for transferring music to mobile devices on most modern platforms

You can even preprocess the files before converting -- for example, downsample to lower rate, or apply Equalizer.

Title formatting is available for naming the files

Folder structure may be preserved optionally