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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 - 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 is an optional dependency for deadbeef.