Development status Active Written in C++ Type Audio player | Initial release 24 October 2005 | |
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Stable release 3.8.2 (January 20, 2017; 38 days ago (2017-01-20)) [±] Preview release 3.4 (June 28, 2013; 3 years ago (2013-06-28)) [±] Repository github.com/audacious-media-player Website audacious-media-player.org License GNU General Public License |
Audacious music player app review
Audacious is a free and open source audio player with a focus on low resource use, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats. It is designed primarily for use on POSIX-compatible systems such as Linux, with limited support for Microsoft Windows. Audacious is the default audio player in Lubuntu and in Ubuntu Studio.
Contents
- Audacious music player app review
- Audacious qt audio player 3 6a1 on ubuntu 15 04
- History
- Features
- Default codec support
- Plugins
- Skins
- Clients
- References
Audacious qt audio player 3 6a1 on ubuntu 15 04
History
Audacious began as a fork of Beep Media Player, which itself is a fork of XMMS. William "nenolod" Pitcock decided to fork Beep Media Player after the original development team announced that they were stopping development in order to create a next-generation version called BMPx. According to the Audacious home page, Pitcock and others "had [their] own ideas about how a player should be designed, which [they] wanted to try in a production environment."
Since version 2.1, Audacious includes both the Winamp-like interface known from previous versions and a new, GTK+-based interface known as GTKUI, which resembles foobar2000 to some extent. GTKUI became the default interface in Audacious 2.4.
Before version 3.0, Audacious used the GTK+ 2.x toolkit by default. Partial support for GTK+ 3.x was added in version 2.5, while version 3.0 has full support for GTK+ 3.x and uses it by default. However, dissatisfied with the evolution of GTK+ 3.x, the Audacious team chose to revert to GTK+ 2 starting with the 3.6 release, with long term plans of porting to Qt.
Features
Audacious contains built-in gapless playback.
Default codec support
Plugins
Audacious owes a large portion of its functionality to plugins, including all codecs. More features are available via third-party plugins.
Current versions of the Audacious core classify plugins as follows (some are low level and not user-visible at this time):
Skins
Audacious has full support for Winamp 2 skins, and as of version 1.2, some free-form skinning is possible. Winamp .wsz skin files, a type of Zip archive, can be used directly, or can be unarchived to individual directories. The program can use Windows Bitmap (.bmp) graphics from the Winamp archive, although native skins for Linux are usually rendered in Portable Network Graphics (.png) format. Audacious 1.x allows the user to adjust the RGB color balance of any skin, effectively making a basic white skin equivalent to a host of colorized skins without editing them manually.
Clients
Audacious is intended to be a standalone media player and not a server (unlike XMMS2), though it accepts connections from client software, such as Conky.
Connection to Audacious for remote control can be done over plain DBus, by using an MPRIS-compatible client, or using the official Audtool utility created just for this purpose.