Guayadeque Music Player

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Guayadeque
Developer(s) Juan Rios
Initial releaseAugust 8, 2008;16 years ago (2008-08-08)
Final release
0.6.2 [1] / 11 December 2024;45 days ago (11 December 2024)
Repository github.com/anonbeat/guayadeque
Written in C++ [2]
Operating system Linux
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 [3]
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. [4]

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History

A Qt rewrite of the program was planned in 2019, [4] but it did not end up happening. On 29 September 2023, it was announced on the Guayadeque forums that development had ceased. [5]

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

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]

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  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2013-09-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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