DeadBeef 0.4.2 Has Been Released, Adds Option To Specify New Tray Icon And More

DeadBeef, a lightweight music player I was telling you about in the Ubuntu Netbook Edition optimization tips post was updated to version 0.4.2 today which brings some minor but interesting new features:

• you can use your mousewheel over the notification area icon to control the volume
• custom tray icon and icon themes: to specify a different icon for DeadBeef, go to Edit > Preferences > Plugins, select the "Standard GTK2 user interface" plugin, click Configure and you can enter a new icon (you just have to enter the icon name). The new version also got a new icon and an option to hide the notification area icon altogether.
• a new "remove from disk" menu item
• "Look up at last.fm" context menu option
• new MusePack plugin with support for multi-chapter files
• many hotkeys improvements and new Play/Pause global hotkeys
• option to remember current track / position / state on exit, and resume after restart
• support for cover artwork embedded in APEv2 tags

And many other improvements - a complete list can be found HERE.


To install the latest DeadBeef 0.4.2 in Ubuntu, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexey-smirnov/deadbeef
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install deadbeef