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-DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11.
+DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11
+(though now it also runs in plain console without X, in FreeBSD, and in OpenSolaris).
Main features:
-* mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv, wav, m4a, mpc, cd audio (and many more).
-* sid, nsf and lots of other popular chiptune formats.
-* ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APEv2, xing/info tags support.
-* character set detection for non-unicode id3 tags
-* unicode tags are fully supported as well (both utf8 and ucs2).
-* cuesheet (.cue files) support, with charset detection
-* tracker modules like mod, s3m, it, xm, etc.
-* HVSC song length database support for sid.
-* gtk2 interface with efficient custom widgets; no GNOME or KDE dependencies.
-* minimize to tray, with scrollwheel volume control.
-* drag and drop, both inside of playlist, and from filemanagers and such.
-* control playback from command line.
-* global hotkeys.
-* plugin support; bundled with lots of plugins, such as global hotkeys
- and last.fm scrobbler; sdk is included.
-* duration calculation is as precise as possible for vbr mp3 files (with
- and without xing/info tags).
-* was tested and works on x86, x86_64 and ppc64 architectures. should work
- on most modern platforms.
-amrnb, amrwb, dirac, faac, faad2, ffmpeg, lame, libsndfile, openjpeg,
-schroedinger, speex, x264, and xvidcore are optional dependencies.
+* mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv, wav, m4a, mpc, cd audio (and many more)
+* sid, nsf and lots of other popular chiptune formats
+* ID3v1, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APEv2, xing/info tags support
+* character set detection for non-unicode id3 tags - supports cp1251 and
+ iso8859-1
+* unicode tags are fully supported as well (both utf8 and ucs2)
+* cuesheet (.cue files) support, with charset detection (utf8/cp1251/iso8859-1)
+* tracker modules like mod, s3m, it, xm, etc
+* HVSC song length database support for sid
+* gtk2 interface with efficient custom widgets
+* no GNOME or KDE dependencies
+* minimize to tray, with scrollwheel volume control
+* drag and drop, both inside of playlist, and from filemanagers and such
+* control playback from command line
+* global hotkeys
+* plugin support; bundled with lots of plugins, such as global hotkeys and
+ last.fm scrobbler; sdk is included
+* duration calculation is as precise as possible for vbr mp3 files (with and
+ without xing/info tags)
+* was tested and works on x86, x86_64 and ppc64 architectures. should work on
+ most modern platforms
+
+ffmpeg and libsndfile are optional dependencies for deadbeef. Build scripts
+for these can be found on SlackBuilds.org.