Deadbeef 0.5.3 released

New deadbeef music player was released recently. For this release author prepared binary builds for Debian/Ubuntu (available at there). For other platforms available static binary build which distributed as tar.gz archive.

Changelog very impressive. Added many features and also many bugs fixed.

changelog since 0.5.2

• m3u: fixed few parser bugs; added audio/x-scpls mime-type support; fixed m3uext support
• adplug: upgraded to 2.2.1, added fake-surround support and emu selection
• added ShellExec GUI configuration support (thanks to Azeem Arshad)
• fixed id3v2 parser whitespace trimming bug
• "Stop after current" can be reconfigured to be auto-reset each time
• auto-save EQ state on every change
• gcc 4.7 compile fix in SID plugin
• added new Sort->Random feature, to randomize the playlist (thanks to Defusix)
• converter: fixed writing wav files sized over 2 gigs
• converter: added support for reconstructing of the folder structrure based on longest common root folder
• converter: added support for writing files to the source track folders
• fixed possible hang caused by race condition in the alsa/streamer interaction
• wildmidi: fixed possible linking errors
• fixed ignoring cuesheet and log fields in search
• added support for TXX DATE field as written by FB2K
• bogus "plugin.so file not found" errors are no longer printed
• fixed bug in search window causing all tracks to become selected on some actions
• fixed possible crash when loading corrupted playlist files
• EQ window will reflect changes in the DSP chain configuration
• fixed excessive CPU load while streamer is waiting for the last track to finish
• alsa: fixed sleep time bug, which should improve CPU load (thanks to Martin Panter)
• alsa: fixed buffer underrun handling problem which was causing sound jittering on slow media like sshfs, cd, etc (thanks to Martin Panter)
• mp3: added option to disable gapless playback, but improve speed (thanks to Martin Panter)
• aac: fix to potential reading past the end of array (thanks to Martin Panter)
• new default cover-art image by TheSame
• fixed loading m3u/pls over http when the file size is unknown
• added m3u and pls url mime types (audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-scpls) to deadbeef.desktop

The most notable thing in Debian/Ubuntu package - deadbeef binary placed in /opt/deadbeef/bin. So if you want to run binary from command line you should add /opt/deadbeef/bin to your PATH variable. Example for bash:

$ cat >> ~/.bashrc << EOF
if [ -d /opt/deadbeef/bin ]; then
     export PATH=/opt/deadbeef/bin:$PATH
fi
EOF

Enjoy new release.