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DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by butz »

benrbray wrote: post #11

How is the tagging system in DeaDBeef? My music library has grown exponentially in the past year or so, due to boredom during covid, and I've come to the conclusion that playlists (as in, static lists of music files that you need to update manually) are functionally useless for large libraries. What I've been looking for, but so far haven't been able to find, is a system that creates playlists from queries to my musi…

I vaguely remember one music player having support for SQL queries for playlist building, seemed novel at the time, but now I cannot find the name of it.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by mariusor »

ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #15

DeadBeeF is probably the best nix-first GUI player out there, but even though it's not a new project, some parts of the UI still seriously lag behind Foobar2000. Some wishes from me, from memory: - You can't use more than one scrobbling service simultaneously. - You can't tweak parameters of burnt-in converter settings - You can't easily switch the language of the interface (It just drives me nuts when software and i…

> You can't use more than one scrobbling service simultaneously.

Well, I have the perfect solution for you. :) It's not a deadbeef plugin, but a user daemon that can load the track information from any player and can submit to Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz.

The project is on github[1] and I believe it's packaged for Archlinux, Fedora, openSUSE.

[1] https://github.com/mariusor/mpris-scrobbler

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by endbringer93 »

867-5309 wrote: post #12
endbringer93 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it really isn't. The time you spend with UI is much greater than time you spend managing your collection so bad UI is far worse than a couple of evenings getting your collection in order. Also you get to enjoy your favorite albums not getting taken down without warning or reason.

you forgot to mention the time it takes hunting for your 'obscure teenage years' CDs on eBay, setting up search alerts for each CD to appear for ~$1 with cheap shipping, waiting three weeks for them to arrive from Lithuania, alcohol-rubbing the dozen sale stickers off the jewel case, cleaning the CDs with lint-free holy water, ripping the audio losslessly at superfast 52x, physically scanning with a scanner and optim…

Or you can just torrent them. Chances are that those "obscure teenage year" CDs aren't and never will be on spotify either so if you want them you'll have to go through all that in addition to paying a service with incomplete library and crappy player.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by mikeyjk »

benrbray wrote: post #11

How is the tagging system in DeaDBeef? My music library has grown exponentially in the past year or so, due to boredom during covid, and I've come to the conclusion that playlists (as in, static lists of music files that you need to update manually) are functionally useless for large libraries. What I've been looking for, but so far haven't been able to find, is a system that creates playlists from queries to my musi…

Your music taste sounds appealing to me, out of curiosity would you have some bands/artists you'd recommend off the cuff?

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by dlkmp »

Toutouxc wrote: post #5

I used to be a huge foobar2000 fan with a huge FLAC library. A bit later I got used to iTunes, because there was no good foobar2000 alternative on macOS, and I dialed back the library. Then I said fuck it and moved all the way over to Spotify, trading music quality (and UI) for discoverability. And I don't see myself going back.

My story is basically the same (except iTunes was mpd in my case) but I'm seriously considering moving back because of the music quality. I don't consider myself anything close to "audiophile" but the dynamic range of streamed music (at least for spotify) makes for a terrible experience when played at rather high volume over speakers. The difference to CD-ripped mp3 is immense.

Messing with the few options offered by the spotify client didn't help either. I'm mostly looking for a solution to use my music libary with a streaming service as drop-in for missing tracks.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by knuthsat »

Nothing came close to the Foobar conversion interface. I didn't have to bother with splitting album flac files, tagging, picking v0/v2/v3, everything just a click away once it's inside Foobar.

I've been using Flacon, MusicBrainz and a combination of shntools but Foobar experience was miles ahead.

Will give this one a try.

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by 0ld »

867-5309 wrote: post #12
endbringer93 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it really isn't. The time you spend with UI is much greater than time you spend managing your collection so bad UI is far worse than a couple of evenings getting your collection in order. Also you get to enjoy your favorite albums not getting taken down without warning or reason.

you forgot to mention the time it takes hunting for your 'obscure teenage years' CDs on eBay, setting up search alerts for each CD to appear for ~$1 with cheap shipping, waiting three weeks for them to arrive from Lithuania, alcohol-rubbing the dozen sale stickers off the jewel case, cleaning the CDs with lint-free holy water, ripping the audio losslessly at superfast 52x, physically scanning with a scanner and optim…

why would i do any of that?

it’s usually downloading, fixing the tags (if needed), moving it to its subdir in the music directory. that’s all

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by minimaul »

I'm a big DeaDBeeF user on mac, and it has reasonable Cocoa UI (so it looks and feels native!) - this is actually pretty unusual for players on the platform!

I make a few tweaks (it's open source, so you can!), but it is very pleasant to use and lets me treat my music as just a collection of playlists rather than railroading me into a big complicated media library tracking system.

Additionally, the main developer is pretty active and it is getting a lot of love in bugfixes and updates for newer macOS, and pull requests and issues get actively looked at as well.

edit: oh, and the codebase was quite nice and easy for me to dig into as well :)

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by brazzledazzle »

minimaul wrote: post #28

I'm a big DeaDBeeF user on mac, and it has reasonable Cocoa UI (so it looks and feels native!) - this is actually pretty unusual for players on the platform! I make a few tweaks (it's open source, so you can!), but it is very pleasant to use and lets me treat my music as just a collection of playlists rather than railroading me into a big complicated media library tracking system. Additionally, the main developer is…

What tweaks do you make? (If you don’t mind sharing.)

Re: DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems

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Post by 867-5309 »

endbringer93 wrote: post #23
867-5309 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you forgot to mention the time it takes hunting for your 'obscure teenage years' CDs on eBay, setting up search alerts for each CD to appear for ~$1 with cheap shipping, waiting three weeks for them to arrive from Lithuania, alcohol-rubbing the dozen sale stickers off the jewel case, cleaning the CDs with lint-free holy water, ripping the audio losslessly at superfast 52x, physically scanning with a scanner and optim…

Or you can just torrent them. Chances are that those "obscure teenage year" CDs aren't and never will be on spotify either so if you want them you'll have to go through all that in addition to paying a service with incomplete library and crappy player.

obscure as in cannot be found online

torrents of such material are non-existent, dead or unreliable at best, and almost never lossless

the point being to avoid being constantly let down by audio streaming providers

but safe to say the point was missed on this occasion

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