Guayadeque is a
free and open-source
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audio player with database written in
C++
C++ (, pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP or CXX) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup. First released in 1985 as an extension of the C programmin ...
using the
WxWidgets
wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) is a widget toolkit and tools library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for cross-platform applications. wxWidgets enables a program's GUI code to compile and run on several computer platforms with no s ...
toolkit. It uses
GStreamer
GStreamer is a Pipeline (computing), pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows. For instance, GStreamer can be used to build a system that reads files in one f ...
to manage the audio and
SQLite
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for the music metadata database.
History
A
Qt rewrite of the program was planned in 2019,
but it did not end up happening. On , it was announced on the Guayadeque forums that development had ceased.
continuation projectwas 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,
while being lightweight on system resources.
It supports a wide variety of audio formats including
OGG
Ogg is a digital multimedia container format designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of digital multimedia. It is maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation and is free and open, unrestricted by software patents. Its name is ...
,
FLAC
FLAC (; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software ...
,
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount ...
,
WAV
Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced or ) is an audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computers. The format was developed and published for the first time in 1991 ...
, and it also has support for
ALSA. The program supports for
last.fm
Last.fm is a music website founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. Utilizing a music recommender system known as "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm creates a detailed profile of each user's musical preferences by recording the details of the tracks they ...
, automatic cover art and lyric fetching, a smart playlist feature,
VU meter
A volume unit (VU) meter or standard volume indicator (SVI) is a device displaying a representation of the Signal-to-noise ratio, signal level in audio equipment.
The original design was proposed in the 1940 Institute of Radio Engineers, IRE pap ...
s, and the ability to label tracks and edit track tags using
MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is a MetaBrainz project that aims to create a collaborative music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB, Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for ...
.
It also features a system tray icon allowing which allowed control of the program.
See also
*
Software audio players (free and open-source)
*
Rhythmbox
Rhythmbox is a free and open-source audio player software, tag editor and music organizer for digital audio files on Linux and Unix-like systems.
Rhythmbox is designed to work well under GNOME, but can function on other desktop environments. ...
*
Banshee (media player)
Banshee was a cross-platform open-source media player, called Sonance until 2005. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it used the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding, and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Bansh ...
*
Amarok (media player)
References
External links
*
Guayadeque Wikidot Page* Original project: ,
* Project continuation:
{{Media player (application software), free
Audio player software for Linux
Free audio software
Free media players
Free software programmed in C++
Linux media players
Software that uses GStreamer
Software that uses wxWidgets