DeaDBeeF for Nokia N900

This is an unofficial port of DeaDBeeF music player for Nokia N900 mobile phone.

All information here is provided as a courtesy and intended for reference use only. Using it is at own risk; no warranty of any kind is expressed or implied. The author of this page cannot be held liable for any damage caused by following the advice given, using the links provided or using the software mentioned on this page.

Installing

This is work in progress. When the port is more mature, I will upload debian packages to maemo.org, but for now the packages can be found here.

First you need to install Libsamplerate and libmad. The can be downloaded from maemo.org, here: http://maemo.org/packages/view/libsamplerate0/, and http://maemo.org/packages/view/libmad0/.

Then you need debian package for DeadBeef. You can find it here. Install the debian package with dpkg.

Now you can start DeaDBeeF from menu or from commandline with run-standalone.sh /opt/deadbeef/bin/deadbeef.

N900 version differences

Features:

• Autorotation
• Hildon menu to toggle off default GTK menu

Known problems:

• When first time starting volume from DeaDBeeF might be on zero. Check it
• GTK filedialog does not see all directories(?), luckily it supports typing the filepath
• Do not select anything from Help menu, it will open non closable window (kill DeaDBeeF from xterm, if you accidentally do this)
• Lastfm plugins passwords first letter is typed in as capital. You might want to edit it manually from ~/.config/deadbeef/config file

Updates

Sun Oct 24 17:15:04 2010 +0300 - Added libmad0 dependency (deadbeef_0.4.2-2_armel.deb)
Sat Oct 23 14:31:28 2010 +0300 - Provided debian package and compiled in ogg support (deadbeef_0.4.2-1_armel.deb)
Fri Oct 22 22:53:42 2010 +0300 - Maemo: Fixed DeaDBeef shutting down after 90 secs when started from menu

Source

Modifications to the official source can be found on my github page, here

Compiling

DeaDBeeF can be compiled easily in scratchbox development environment. Just clone my branch, run autogen.sh, configure, make and make install. My configure args are these:

./configure --prefix=/opt/deadbeef --enable-maemo --disable-oss --disable-alsa --disable-nullout