Audacious 3.8

Audacious 3.8 GTK2 interface

Audacious is an audio player that focuses on high audio quality and low resource usage. It ships with numerous plugins and 3 interfaces: a GTK (the PPA packages are built with GTK2) interface, a Qt interface, and a Winamp 2.x like interface (it supports Winamp 2.x skins).

The application was updated to version 3.8, bringing support for running multiple instances, each with its own configuration, a new Ampache browser plugin (Qt interface only; also, this is only available for Xenial and Yakkety in the PPA due to its dependencies), more seamless cuesheet support, and more.

Audacious 3.8 Qt interface with the new Ampache Browser extension enabled

Changes in Audacious 3.8:

• new Ampache browser plugin for the Qt interface
• you can now run multiple Audacious instances, each with its own configuration. Instances can be started with “audacious -2”, “audacious -3” and so on, and they can be controlled from the command line with “audtool -2 <command>”, “audtool -3 <command>”, etc.;
• new audtool commands were added: enable/disable stream recording and enable/disable plugins;
• cuesheet support is more seamless, and it includes the following fixes:
  • more robust logic to prevent adding duplicate entries;
  • display artist correctly for cuesheets with only a single PERFORMER line;
  • add audio files normally if cuesheet support is disabled;
  • track lengths correctly account for pregap with libcue 2.0 or later;
• folders can be added from various URI protocols (ftp, mtp, etc.) via GIO;
• audio effects and equalization can optionally be applied to a stream recording;
• search results can be added to the playlist using drag and drop;
• option to display MMM:SS instead of H:MM:SS;
• automatic selection of the best available output bit depth;
• album artist support for FLAC and Vorbis files (read-write);
• existing features ported to the Qt interface:
  • scrobbler setup dialog;
  • context (right-click) menu in the playlist;
  • copy-and-paste of playlist entries;
  • “Ppen Containing Folder” command;
  • desktop notifications and file deletion (via the appropriate plugins);
  • access to the full set of FileWriter options;
• various other minor tweaks and bug fixes.

A complete changelog is available HERE.

To install Audacious 3.8 in Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA, you can use the main WebUpd8 PPA. To add the PPA and install Audacious, use the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt update
sudo apt install audacious