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Last updated on: 2026-06-16
Android Apps > Music & Audio > The Deadhead Archives
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The Deadhead Archives

2.15.4
James Whittenburg
3.96
2,186 reviews
100,000+
Downloads
Free

Listen to shows from the Internet Archive. For Deadheads of all ages!

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About The Deadhead Archives

The Deadhead Archives is a music & audio app developed by James Whittenburg.

Download Statistics

The Deadhead Archives has been downloaded 120 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 310 times.

User Ratings

The Deadhead Archives is rated 3.96 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 2.2 thousand ratings.

App Information

The Deadhead Archives is FREE to download. The APK download size is 18.65 MB. The latest version available is 2.15.4. The last update was on May 25, 2026.

Technical Requirements

The Deadhead Archives requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play March 2015.

Description
Listen to your favorite Deadhead shows from uploads to the Internet Archive.

Player features include:

* Caching of year and set data locally for quick reuse
* Soundboards are shown in blue
* Now with ratings from the Internet Archive

Be aware that this app uses data.

Please send me feature requests so I can make this app better for all.


Credits:

All of the files this app links to are sourced from the Internet Archive. Please visit their web site at http://archive.org

Legal:

The Deadhead Archives strictly adheres to the stipulations stated below:
STATEMENT TO MP3 SITE OPERATORS


The Grateful Dead and our managing organizations have long encouraged the purely noncommercial exchange of music taped at our concerts and those of our individual members. That a new medium of distribution has arisen - digital audio files being traded over the Internet - does not change our policy in this regard.

Our stipulations regarding digital distribution are merely extensions of those long-standing principles and they are as follow:

• No commercial gain may be sought by websites offering digital files of our music, whether through advertising, exploiting databases compiled from their traffic, or any other means.

• All participants in such digital exchange acknowledge and respect the copyrights of the performers, writers and publishers of the music.

• This notice should be clearly posted on all sites engaged in this activity.

• We reserve the ability to withdraw our sanction of noncommercial digital music should circumstances arise that compromise our ability to protect and steward the integrity of our work.

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Grateful Dead Sanctions Free MP3 Music Format

Decision Follows Action Against Commercial Web Site

MILL VALLEY, Calif., May 11, PRNewswire

In a major policy initiative by one of the nation's most enduring musical groups, the Grateful Dead will, under strict guidelines prohibiting commercial use, allow free Internet downloads of live performances taped by their fans via the popular but controversial MP3 format, the group's attorney, Eric Doney, announced today.

Doney, a partner in the firm of Donahue, Gallagher, Woods & Wood, said the Grateful Dead is believed to be one of the first major bands to adopt a policy that essentially endorses free MP3 music, a format some members of the recording industry have strongly condemned.

The decision follows several weeks of discussion and review by the surviving members of the Grateful Dead and includes strict and non negotiable guidelines, Doney said. Furthermore, the announcement follows recent dispute with the owners of a web site that posted MP3 files of Grateful Dead live recordings for free download but received revenues from banner advertisements.

"The members of the Grateful Dead feel this decision is important and far reaching for both the band and their fans," Doney said. "This MP3 policy continues the band's long tradition of allowing free access to and trading of live recordings of their music and ensures that fans are not left with outmoded technology.

"At the same time, the strict guidelines protect the Grateful Dead against the very real threat of pirated intellectual property posed by the trading and possible sale of MP3 files via the Internet."

Under the guidelines, any web site owner is free to post copies of the group's live recordings made by fans as MP3 encoded files but may not derive any form of revenues from the endeavor, Doney said. This means web site operators may not charge for downloads, may not solicit any form of advertising, may not post any type of banner advertisements and may not sell email addresses or other data about fans downloading Grateful Dead music.

Only live recordings are sanctioned by this initiative, Doney said. The Grateful Dead will continue to aggressively prosecute any web site operators or any other businesses trafficking in Grateful Dead studio recordings, which are protected under U.S. copyright laws, Doney said.

Recent changes:
I am continuing to work on the issues everyone has reported, as well as suggestions I am receiving. Thank you for patience while I add back the missing features.

Items fixed or added in this release:
- Android Auto, finally......
- Casting
- Bluetooth instabilty
- Now saves playback position when the app is closed
- Restore playback position when the app restarts
- Added a new band, Dupree's Dead Band

I am working on some other really exciting features.
More to come later...
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More data about The Deadhead Archives

Price Free to download
Total downloads 120 thousand
Recent downloads 310
Rating 3.96 based on 2.2 thousand ratings
Ranking Not ranked
Version 2.15.4
APK size 18.6 MB
Number of libraries 38
Designed for Android 5.0+
Maturity Medium Maturity
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The Deadhead Archives has been downloaded 120 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 10 downloads per day.

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whittenburg.systems@gmail.com

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Comments on The Deadhead Archives for Android

★★★★★ A Google user · Mar 23, 2026
Thank you The udated version 2.14.1: "Playing Now" shows the "This Day in History" screen. Please fix this 27 January 2016: Great app. Just what I was looking for. Highly recommended! Peace
★★★★☆ Jason Carasone · Jul 13, 2025
Thank you for all the hard work. I appreciate it, almost every single show from multiple tapers. it's a great site. Now we need a jerry garcia band, that would be awesome 👍
★★★★★ Joseph Bustard · Jun 7, 2026
Great works at making this at better app. If you love the dead you'll love this app.
★★★★★ Michael Gaylor · Aug 3, 2025
I've had this app for years - simply love it. There are times when you need to reach your inner deadhead - song, year, band members etc... let the music and the experience flow over your soul. The additional off shoots and other bands just adds to the greatness of this app -- thank you for making my days brighter and my nights star lit.
★★☆☆☆ A Google user · Jul 26, 2025
Used to be my favorite app ever, but now it plays one song and shuts off all the time, last 3 weeks either going to or coming home from work it shut off 90% of the time, and it's only a 10-minute drive. Even sitting at home on Wi-Fi it does the same thing, not sure what was changed, but it certainly isn't an improvement.
★☆☆☆☆ John Galt · Oct 10, 2024
What happened? As the old saying goes if it ain't broke don't fix it. Been using thos app for 5 years to listen to every GD performance chronologically. Now it doesn't remember what show im on. Stop mid-show and shuts down. Skips 4 or 5 songs at a time. And now I can rvem get the 1985 shows to load. What the heck man????????

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