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Port details
decibels GNOME audio player
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Deprecated DEPRECATED: Depends on deprecated lang/typescript (which needs a maintainer), see https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289856
Expiration Date EXPIRATION DATE: 2025-11-30
Maintainer: gnome@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-09-30 00:15:07
Last Update: 2025-09-30 19:16:21
Commit Hash: 504f228
Also Listed In: gnome
License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/decibels
Description:
An audio player that just plays audio files. It doesn't require an organized music library and won't overload you with tons of functionality. Decibels offers advanced features such as: - An elegant waveform of the track - Adjustable playback speed - Easy seek controls - Playing multiple files at the same time
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/decibels-48.0/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/decibels-48.0/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/decibels-48.0/GPLv3
  4. bin/org.gnome.Decibels
  5. share/applications/org.gnome.Decibels.desktop
  6. share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Decibels.service
  7. share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.gnome.Decibels.svg
  8. share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.gnome.Decibels-symbolic.svg
  9. share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  10. share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  11. share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  12. share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  13. share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  14. share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  15. share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  16. share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  17. share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  18. share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  19. share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  20. share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  21. share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  22. share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  23. share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  24. share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  25. share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  26. share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  27. share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  28. share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  29. share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  30. share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  31. share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  32. share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  33. share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  34. share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  35. share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  36. share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  37. share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  38. share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  39. share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  40. share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  41. share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  42. share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  43. share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  44. share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  45. share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  46. share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  47. share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  48. share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  49. share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Decibels.mo
  50. share/metainfo/org.gnome.Decibels.metainfo.xml
  51. share/org.gnome.Decibels/org.gnome.Decibels.data.gresource
  52. share/org.gnome.Decibels/org.gnome.Decibels.src.gresource
  53. @owner
  54. @group
  55. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • decibels>0:audio/decibels
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/audio/decibels/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install audio/decibels
  • pkg install decibels
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: decibels
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1745433863 SHA256 (gnome/decibels-48.0.tar.xz) = 229b11a9263147bcb8c3e21ff0d4af659fb26262f8aece547adcf8c65e031f74 SIZE (gnome/decibels-48.0.tar.xz) = 584392

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. tsc : lang/typescript
  2. blueprint-compiler : devel/blueprint-compiler
  3. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  4. msgfmt : devel/gettext-tools
  5. gstreamer1-libav>=1.26.6 : multimedia/gstreamer1-libav
  6. gstreamer1-plugins-bad>=1.26.6 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-bad
  7. gstreamer1-plugins-faad>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-faad
  8. gstreamer1-plugins-flac>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-flac
  9. gstreamer1-plugins-good>=1.26.6 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-good
  10. gstreamer1-plugins-lame>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-lame
  11. gstreamer1-plugins-ogg>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-ogg
  12. gstreamer1-plugins-opus>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-opus
  13. gstreamer1-plugins-ugly>=1.26.6 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-ugly
  14. gstreamer1-plugins-vorbis>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-vorbis
  15. gstreamer1-plugins-wavpack>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-wavpack
  16. gstreamer1-plugins>=1.26.6 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins
  17. meson : devel/meson
  18. ninja : devel/ninja
  19. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Runtime dependencies:
  1. dbus>0 : devel/dbus
  2. update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
  3. gstreamer1-libav>=1.26.6 : multimedia/gstreamer1-libav
  4. gstreamer1-plugins-bad>=1.26.6 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-bad
  5. gstreamer1-plugins-faad>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-faad
  6. gstreamer1-plugins-flac>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-flac
  7. gstreamer1-plugins-good>=1.26.6 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-good
  8. gstreamer1-plugins-lame>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-lame
  9. gstreamer1-plugins-ogg>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-ogg
  10. gstreamer1-plugins-opus>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-opus
  11. gstreamer1-plugins-ugly>=1.26.6 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins-ugly
  12. gstreamer1-plugins-vorbis>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-vorbis
  13. gstreamer1-plugins-wavpack>=1.26.6 : audio/gstreamer1-plugins-wavpack
  14. gstreamer1-plugins>=1.26.6 : multimedia/gstreamer1-plugins
Library dependencies:
  1. libgjs.so : lang/gjs
  2. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  3. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  4. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  5. libgtk-4.so : x11-toolkits/gtk40
  6. libadwaita-1.so : x11-toolkits/libadwaita
  7. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  8. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
  9. libgstreamer-1.0.so : multimedia/gstreamer1
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
audio_decibels
USES:
desktop-file-utils gettext-tools gnome gstreamer meson pkgconfig tar:xz
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://download.gnome.org/sources/decibels/48/
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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48.0
30 Sep 2025 19:16:21
commit hash: 504f22875ac2d2592cd33e70c7cdc65545bf91a8commit hash: 504f22875ac2d2592cd33e70c7cdc65545bf91a8commit hash: 504f22875ac2d2592cd33e70c7cdc65545bf91a8commit hash: 504f22875ac2d2592cd33e70c7cdc65545bf91a8 files touched by this commit
Matthias Andree (mandree) search for other commits by this committer
audio/decibels: mark deprecated, expire 2025-11-30.

We need to have a reliable port maintainer for lang/typescript before
we can decide to keep this port. Revise typescript's DEPRECATED notice.

PR:		289856
PR:		289857
48.0
30 Sep 2025 00:13:33
commit hash: 66e38e55d1e900915db5a41bd7bcc1be417589eacommit hash: 66e38e55d1e900915db5a41bd7bcc1be417589eacommit hash: 66e38e55d1e900915db5a41bd7bcc1be417589eacommit hash: 66e38e55d1e900915db5a41bd7bcc1be417589ea files touched by this commit
Don Lewis (truckman) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Olivier Duchateau
audio/decibels: New port

GNOME audio player written in TypeScript.

PR:		289857

Number of commits found: 2