Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS.

New features and improvements:

  • Support titlebar dimming for Winamp skins also with GTK
  • Allow to never show playlist tabs also in GTK interface (#1409)
  • Improve controls responsiveness with the Sndio output plugin
  • Add Qt 6 support for the Qt Multimedia output plugin
  • Support many more MPRIS metadata fields
  • Include .adx as file extension for the FFmpeg plugin (#1466)

Bugs fixed:

  • Include patch version in SONAMEs again (#1408)
  • Fix writing tags into audio files on Windows (#1421)
  • Make drag and drop work with GTK on Wayland (#1423)
  • Fix build with GCC and Meson on macOS
  • Handle big-endian systems correctly with Meson
  • Fix excessive CPU usage with the Qt Multimedia output plugin
  • Enable scroll buttons for playlist tabs on macOS (#1455)

Other changes:

  • Lower GTK 3 version requirement from 3.22 to 3.18
  • Offer SHA256 checksum files for our release tarballs (#1432)
  • Make CDDB support optional for the Audio CD plugin (#1437)
  • Allow minimum speed of 0.25 for the Speed and Pitch plugin (#1447)
  • Prefer PulseAudio plugin over PipeWire plugin for better backwards compatibility
  • Specify application ID and icon name for PulseAudio
  • Update translations
    • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Just note it works with ANY Winamp skin you just have to install them manually, My install I got from the AUR has the skins folder located /usr/share/audacious/Skins/

      You can find most classic skins here! they are obviously very low resolution and don’t think people are making HD winamp skins these days…

      • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        That was one of the big selling points of Audacious (and XMMS back in the day) - Winamp skin support.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 month ago

        Nice. I assume it make sense, because the skins are all the same, just different styling for colors and images. Good to know (for future recommendations).