Happy long-term user here. I switched to DeaDBeeF from foobar2k shortly after I made the move to desktop Linux a good decade ago, since fb2k only ran very awkwa

Happy long-term user here. I switched to DeaDBeeF from foobar2k shortly after I made the move to desktop Linux a good decade ago, since fb2k only ran very awkwardly in Wine at the time. One advantage of DB is how simple and elegant its plugin API is. I remember fb2k's being the worst of the early-2000s high corporate C++ style (with a thicket of templated factory classes that were completely opaque to debuggers and IDEs); in comparison, DB's is a straightforward plain C interface with nary an unnecessary moving part.