Many Linux players (like Audacious, Banshee, Amarok, Exaile) can easily access audio CDs tracks info (names and other metadata) but Deadbeef cannot, although it has a cdda plugin that should do just that.Along VLC, Amarok, Rhythmbox, Xine and Kaffeine, Deadbeef is one of the players that can read CD-Text (tracks info accessible offline, from the cd itself), but it oddly fails at accessing online CDDB, a somewhat trivial task these days.Can those settings be adjusted to make this work? 
Deadbeef audio player does not retrieve online (freedb, CDDB) info about CD tracks
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The problem is with the option Prefer CD-Text over CDDB (under Preferences-Plugins-Audio CD player-Configure): that should NOT be checked.When it was, instead of preferring CD-Text when available, it just showed CD-Text and never CDDB info. And as CD-Text is usually absent, it showed generic names of tracks ('Track 1, 2 etc) even if CDDB data was available and CD-Text was not. (It surely looks like a bug.)