Guayadeque Music Player

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Guayadeque
Original author Juan Ríos
Developer Tiago T Barrionuevo
Initial releaseMarch 11, 2009;16 years ago (2009-03-11)
Stable release
0.7.2 / June 7, 2025;4 months ago (2025-06-07)
Repository github.com/thothix/guayadeque
Written in C++ (wxWidgets) [1]
Operating system Linux
Available inBulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Type Audio player
License GPL-3.0-or-later [2]
Website github.com/thothix/guayadeque

Guayadeque is 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]

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History

Juan Ríos started the Guayadeque development in 2008 after evaluate some Linux music players to store his large music collection and figure out that none of them could competently manage a collection this large. The first public release was in March 11, 2009.

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

A continuation project was founded in 2024 by Tiago T Barrionuevo, returning Guayadeque to active development.

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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Guayadeque Music Player Open Source Project on Ohloh". Archived from the original on 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
  2. ↑ "Guayadeque Music Player license". GitHub . Archived from the original on 2021-06-01.
  3. 1 2 Hermansen, Chris (4 June 2019). "Why this developer wrote a music player in C++". opensource.com. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "End of development - Guayadeque Music Player". www.guayadeque.org. Archived from the original on 2024-03-01. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  5. 1 2 Germain, Jack (3 July 2013). "Guayadeque Music Player's an Impressive Featherweight". Linux Insider. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  6. 1 2 Sneddon, Joey (2010-02-17). "Guayadeque Music Player: Light, Unique, Awesome?". OMG! Ubuntu. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  7. ↑ Hermansen, Chris (24 June 2016). "6 reasons why Guayadeque is a music lover's open source player | Opensource.com". opensource.com. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
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