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Free and open source audio player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guayadeque was 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] A Qt rewrite of the program was planned in 2019,[3] but it did not end up happening. On September 29, 2023, it was announced on the Guayadeque forums that development had ceased.[4]
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| Developer(s) | Juan Rios |
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| Initial release | August 8, 2008 |
| Final release | 0.4.7
/ 20 February 2023 |
| Written in | C++[1] |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | English, 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[2] |
| Website | www |
As of 10/30/2025, it could still be built and installed on modern Ubuntu by first building and installing wxWidgets-3.0.5.
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]
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