Guayadeque Music Player
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.
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, but on, it was announced on the Guayadeque forums that development had ceased.
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 .
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, 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.