Software:Guayadeque Music Player
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| Developer(s) | Juan Rios |
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| Initial release | August 8, 2008 |
| Final release | 0.3.7 (February 20, 2014) [±][1] |
| Written in | C++[2] |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | English, French, Catalan, German, Bulgarian, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese, Italian, Hungarian, Icelandic |
| Type | Audio player |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later[3] |
| Website | www |
Guayadeque was a free and open-source audio player with database written in C++ using the WxWidgets toolkit. It uses Gstreamer to manage the audio and SQLite for the music metadata database.[4] A Qt rewrite of the program was planned in 2019,[4] but it did not end up happening. On September 29, 2023, it was announced on the Guayadeque forums that development had ceased.[5]
Features
Guayadeque features a simple and customizable user interface with a large amount of fine-tuning options,[6] while being lightweight on system resources.[7] It supports a wide variety of audio formats including OGG, FLAC, MP3, WAV, and it also has support for ALSA. The program supports for last.fm, automatic cover art and lyric fetching, a smart playlist feature, VU meters, and the ability to label tracks and edit track tags using MusicBrainz.[7][8] It also features a system tray icon allowing which allowed control of the program.[6]
See also
- Software audio players (free and open-source)
- Rhythmbox
- Banshee (media player)
- Amarok (media player)
References
- ↑ Sourceforge download, http://sourceforge.net/projects/guayadeque/files/guayadeque/
- ↑ http://www.ohloh.net/p/guayadeque
- ↑ "Guayadeque Music Player license". Archived from the original on 2021-06-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20210601162559/https://github.com/anonbeat/guayadeque/blob/master/LICENSE.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hermansen, Chris (4 June 2019). "Why this developer wrote a music player in C++". https://opensource.com/article/19/6/creator-guayadeque-music-player.
- ↑ "End of development - Guayadeque Music Player". https://www.guayadeque.org/viewtopic.php?p=7003&sid=c8ee26e25aef48134fe9c6c50031dca3#p7003.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Germain, Jack (3 July 2013). "Guayadeque Music Player's an Impressive Featherweight". https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/guayadeque-music-players-an-impressive-featherweight-78405.html.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sneddon, Joey (2010-02-17). "Guayadeque Music Player: Light, Unique, Awesome?" (in en-GB). http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/02/guayadeque-music-player-light-unique-awesome.
- ↑ Hermansen, Chris (24 June 2016). "6 reasons why Guayadeque is a music lover's open source player | Opensource.com" (in en). https://opensource.com/life/16/6/what-i-like-about-guayadeque.
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