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This explains why it is not available anymore, but still its 1.08 version can be installed from deb, only it plays nothing.

The idea is that the player is orphaned since 2011 without an adopter and depends on gstreamer 0.10, which is scheduled for removal. If installed from deb, it is unable to play any type of file.

Looking for gstreamer 0.10 I have found and installed gstreamer0.10-nice, to no effect.

Its future seems grim, but I want to use it as long as I can, because I like the way its file manager can access and manipulate different music directories.

~ In Manjaro it can be easily installed and works great.

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Thanks to @Mark Kirby's comment under the question above and to the posts here (especially post 6), I have found the solution: the needed Decibel package is a 1.06 (not 1.08) version made for Xenial and available as a deb, which needs as a dependency gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10 also available as a deb, which instead needs libx264-146.

If version 1.08 version is installed, remove it (sudo apt remove decibel-audio-player), then, in the following order, download and install, preferably using gdebi-gtk:

Also,gstreamer0.10-alsa is needed if not already installed:

sudo apt install gstreamer0.10-alsa

To be able to add CD play/access to the file manager menu, two optional packages are also needed:

sudo apt install cd-discid python-cddb

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