Cross-platform audio player DeaDBeeF 1.9 is released after three year

DeaDBeeF is a modular cross-platform audio player that runs on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix-like systems. The player was first released in 2009.

Since the release of DeaDBeeF 1.8, now three years later, version 1.9 has been officially released.

The updates are as follows:

Fixed:

• WMA regression causing playback corruption
• Deadlock in ALSA plugin
• Wrongly detects raw AAC files as MP4 files
• Handling empty header formatting scripts
• Memory error when dragging playlists via Playlist Browser
• Keyboard navigation issue across playlist tabs
• Playlist tab and playlist custom color bug
• Suspended state not properly maintained after force quit
• Poor performance when saving playlists and profiles
• sndfile cannot open the file because of an uninitialized memory access error
• Crash when removing track from playlist while playing
• Render group headers with blank text
• Delay activation of playlist tabs when drag and drop on tab bar

Added:

• Long file search with support for Opus and FFMPEG
• HTTPS support for vfs_curl in portable builds via libmbedtls
• Design Patterns for CocoaUI
• New scope and spectrum analyzer visualization capabilities
• Visual appearance preference pane
• New album art loader
• Configurable volume bar scale via context menu
• Title formatting $year (time) function
• GTK UI for editing selected fields of multiple selected tracks in table interface
• Create a new playlist by clicking the “+” button in the Playlists tab
• Improved GTK interface for DSP preferences
• Improved handling of invalid MP3 files
• Last.fm scrobbler will use HTTPS by default

For more details, please check: https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef