How to install DeadBeef in Ubuntu

DeadBeef is a small audio player for GNU Linux systems with X11, written in C and C++ programming languages. It is oriented to the Gnome desktop environment, and therefore Unity. The project was created in 2009 and today besides the computer version it is known to be an Android program.

What features DeadBeef supports

For Ubuntu users this player can be a real boon, as it supports the following features:

• playback of files with extensions 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, as well as all supported ffmpeg, umb, gme, libsndfile, adplug;
• does not consume a lot of system resources;
• supports plugin expansion, CUE, M3U and PLS playlists;
• plays internet radio as well as regular mp3 files over HTTP and HTTPS;
• supports global hotkeys;
• supports reading and writing ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2, vorbiscomment;
• Can support non-Unicode encodings;
• provides high quality oversampling with libsamplerate;
• plays with Alsa, oss b PulseAudio;
• has a built-in last.fm/libre.fm scrubbler;
• supports multiple playlists;
• has an eighteen band equalizer;
• plays files directly from the archive;
• has multi-channel playback of audio files;
• menu and settings in Russian.

Next, let's look at the instructions on how to install this player on the system.

Installing DeadBeef

If you want to install the latest version of the player, we suggest you to use the easiest way - add PPA to your system. To add a PPA, follow the steps below:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:starws-box/deadbeef-player
$ sudo apt update

Next, install DeadBeef:

$ sudo apt install deadbeef

Now you can launch the player directly from the main menu.

You can uninstall it at any time if you suddenly lose the need for DeadBeef

$ sudo apt install deadbeef

If for some reason you don't want to install the program from the repository, you can install it using snap package. In order to do so, execute:

$ sudo snap install deadbeef-vs

With this installation method, the player is uninstalled as follows:

$ sudo remove install deadbeef-vs

That's all for now. The instruction is considered complete.