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DeaDBeeF

Oleksiy Yakovenko and contributors

Modular audio player with broad format support

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Audio & Video GPL-2.0-only v1.10.3
DeaDBeeF on Linux
DeaDBeeF on Linux

About

This is a community package of DeaDBeeF, maintained independently and unaffiliated with the DeaDBeeF project. It repackages the official upstream Linux portable build unmodified.

DeaDBeeF is a modular audio player for Linux and other desktop systems. It supports common local audio formats, playlists, cue sheets, album artwork, ReplayGain, network streams, media library browsing, MPRIS integration and a plugin-based GTK interface.

Permissions: this package grants display, audio, network access, notifications, MPRIS, DeaDBeeF's runtime socket and your Music directory. Broader file access is not granted by default; enable it only if your music library lives elsewhere:

  • Full local library access: flatpak override --user --filesystem=home io.sourceforge.deadbeef
  • GVfs-mounted locations: flatpak override --user --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfs io.sourceforge.deadbeef

User-installed plugins are not granted by default. DeaDBeeF looks for user plugins in ~/.local/lib64/deadbeef and ~/.local/lib/deadbeef; allow those directories only if you install third-party plugins:

  • Enable user plugin directories: flatpak override --user --filesystem=~/.local/lib64/deadbeef:create --filesystem=~/.local/lib/deadbeef:create io.sourceforge.deadbeef
  • Install a 64-bit plugin: mkdir -p ~/.local/lib64/deadbeef && cp ~/Downloads/plugins/example_GTK3.so ~/.local/lib64/deadbeef/

Details

Developer
Oleksiy Yakovenko and contributors
License
GPL-2.0-only
Version
1.10.3 · 2026-06-10
Website
Homepage
Source
DeaDBeeF

Permissions

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  • Network access

    Can reach the internet and local network

  • Files: xdg-music

  • Files: xdg-run/deadbeef:create

  • Files: xdg-run/pipewire-0:ro

  • Inter-process communication

    Shares the IPC namespace with the host

  • X11 (fallback)

  • Audio (PulseAudio)

  • Owns service music.deadbeef.player

  • Owns service org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.DeaDBeeF

  • Talk to org.freedesktop.Notifications

  • Wayland display