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Audacious GTK interface

Audacious Winamp classic interface

• Unified settings page for switching and configuring interfaces;
• New menu items go directly to various plugin categories in settings window;
• Delete songs from the filesystem or move them to the trash;
• Switch playlists by scrolling on the tab bar;
• Option to show number of entries in playlist tabs;
• Support for Microsoft ASXv3 playlists;
• Option to hide tab bar when there is only one playlist;
• Alarm plugin provides new "Set Alarm" menu item;
• New settings window for JACK output;
• ID3v2.3 tags are no longer converted to the newer but less portable ID3v2.4 format;
• New audtool commands for working with multiple playlists;
• Default tag format for MP3 files changed from APEv2 to ID3v2.3;
• Support for COVERART element in Ogg Vorbis tags;
• Album art enlarges with the song info window;
• Opening a folder in a new playlist automatically sets the playlist title;
• Most dialog windows now remember their position and size;
• Full support for Unicode filenames on Windows;
• OpenGL spectrum visualization works in Windows.

Install Audacious 3.5 in Ubuntu 14.04 or 13.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/failsdownloads
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacious

Old Audacious version (2.3) - GTK2 interface

The change was made because certain design choices [1] in recent releases of GTK3 have made it increasingly difficult to write a "traditional" PC / desktop program using the toolkit.

[1] A few examples of non-traditional design choices: monochrome icons (or none at all), client-side window decorations, and message windows mimicking Android.

Audacious 3.6 alpha 1 - GTK2 interface

Audacious 3.6 alpha 1 - Qt interface

• support double-size scaling of Winamp skins;
• it's now possible to search by genre in the search tool plugin;
• the playlist manager can be docked in the GTK+ interface;
• crossfading on seek and manual song change;
• support for “album artist” in song tags;
• search results are filtered by number of songs in the search tool plugin;
• cue files are now automatically added to playlists and to the library;
• adjustable HTTP buffer size;
• optional calculation of a more accurate song length estimate for MP3 files
• optional skipping of leading and trailing silence in MIDI files;
• restored settings dialog for the SID plugin;
• Audacious can now be built as a headless music player “daemon” with no GTK+ dependency (some plugins still require GTK+ though);
• by default, playback now resumes in a paused state upon startup;
• window positions of visualization plugins and of the search tool are now saved and restored at startup when the Winamp Classic interface is used;
• there is a new effect plugin to remove leading and trailing silence in any song file;
• new controls have been added to the song information dialog to allow tagging entire albums without retyping the artist and album name for each song;
• a new option has been added to probe content of files with no recognized filename extension. With this option enabled, files with no extension can be added to playlists and to the library automatically, and subtunes in those files will also be recognized. The extra probing does slow Audacious down, so enable the option only if needed;
• support for the SID song lengths database has been restored;
• the ALSA output plugin now checks for new devices when the settings dialog is opened, so it’s no longer necessary to restart Audacious after plugging in a USB audio device;
• the JACK and sndio output plugins have been rewritten from scratch in order to fix a number of problems;
• more.

Test Audacious 3.6 alpha 1 in Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacious

audacious --qt

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:failsdownloadsteam/unstable

Audacious 3.6 GTK2 interface

Audacious 3.6 Qt interface

• upscaling of old winamp skins was brought back;
• it's now possible to search the library by genre;
• it's now possible to sort a playlist by genre;
• the playlist manager can be docked in the GTK interface;
• Crossfade plugin now works on manual song change;
• 'Album Artist' is now supported in song tags;
• search results can be filtered by number of songs in the search tool plugin;
• cue files are now automatically added to playlists and to the library;
• song lengths read from ID3 tags are sanity-checked;
• the HTTP buffer size is now adjustable;
• restored settings dialog for the SID plugin;
• Audacious can now be built as a headless music player "daemon" with no GTK+ dependency (and it can be controlled via audtool or MPRIS 2 client) - some plugins still require GTK though;
• by default, playback now resumes in a paused state upon startup, so that you can press play to continue from where you left off;
• a new "Open Containing Folder" command has been added to the GTK+ interface;
• window positions of visualization plugins and of the search tool are now saved and restored at startup when the Winamp Classic interface is used. A new menu option and keyboard shortcut (Y) have also been added to activate the search tool;
• there is a new effect plugin to remove leading and trailing silence in any song file (especially useful for the crossfade plugin);
• new controls have been added to the song information dialog to allow tagging entire albums without retyping the artist and album name for each song;
• a new option has been added to probe content of files with no recognized filename extension;
• support for the SID song lengths database has been restored;
• the ALSA output plugin now checks for new devices when the settings dialog is opened;
• the JACK and sndio output plugins have been rewritten from scratch in order to fix a number of problems;
• the generic and unhelpful “No decoder found” message has been replaced with somewhat more specific error reporting; for example, "No such file or directory";
• bug fixes.

Install Audacious 3.6 in Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10 or 15.04 / Linux Mint 17 or 17.1

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/failsdownloads
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacious