Guayadeque Music Player

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Guayadeque
Developer(s) Juan Rios
Initial releaseAugust 8, 2008;16 years ago (2008-08-08)
Final release
0.4.7 / 20 February 2023;20 months ago (20 February 2023)
Repository github.com/anonbeat/guayadeque
Written in C++ [1]
Operating system LinuxG
Available inEnglish, 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 [2]
Website www.guayadeque.org

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. [3] A Qt rewrite of the program was planned in 2019, [3] but it did not end up happening. On September 29, 2023, it was announced on the Guayadeque forums that development had ceased. [4]

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As of 10/30/2024, it could still be built and installed on modern Ubuntu by first building and installing wxWidgets-3.0.5.

Features

Guayadeque features a simple and customizable user interface with a large amount of fine-tuning options, [5] while being lightweight on system resources. [6] 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. [6] [7] It also features a system tray icon allowing which allowed control of the program. [5]

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References

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