| Guayadeque | |
|---|---|
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| Original author | Juan Ríos |
| Developer | Tiago T Barrionuevo |
| Initial release | March 11, 2009 (2009-03-11) |
| Stable release | 0.7.5
/ January 1, 2026 (2026-01-01) |
| Repository | codeberg.org/thothix/guayadeque |
| Written in | C++ (wxWidgets)[1] |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian |
| Type | Audio player |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later[2] |
| Website | codeberg.org/thothix/guayadeque |
Guayadeque is a free software 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]
History
Juan Ríos began development of Guayadeque in 2008 after finding that no other music players could efficiently store a large collection of audio files. The first public release was in March 11, 2009.
A Qt rewrite of the program was planned in 2019,[3] but on 29 September 2023, it was announced on the Guayadeque forums that development had ceased.[4]
A continuation project was founded in 2024 by Tiago T Barrionuevo, returning Guayadeque to active development.
In January 05, 2026, the project was migrated from GitHub to Codeberg in this repository.
Features
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]
See also
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References
- ^ "The Guayadeque Music Player Free Software Project on Ohloh". Archived from the original on 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
- ^ "Guayadeque Music Player license". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2021-06-01.
- ^ a b Hermansen, Chris (4 June 2019). "Why this developer wrote a music player in C++". opensource.com. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ "End of development - Guayadeque Music Player". www.guayadeque.org. Archived from the original on 2024-03-01. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
- ^ Germain, Jack (3 July 2013). "Guayadeque Music Player's an Impressive Featherweight". Linux Insider. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ a b Sneddon, Joey (2010-02-17). "Guayadeque Music Player: Light, Unique, Awesome?". OMG! Ubuntu. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
- ^ Hermansen, Chris (24 June 2016). "6 reasons why Guayadeque is a music lover's open source player | Opensource.com". opensource.com. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
External links
- Old website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2023-09-23(Date mismatch))
- Guayadeque Wikidot Page
- Former project: guayadeque on GitHub, guayadeque on SourceForge
- Later: guayadeque on GitHub
- Current project: guayadeque on Codeberg
