Audacious audio player for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Install Audacious 3.7 in Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 or Linux Mint. Install Audacious 3.6 (Stable Release) in Ubuntu Systems.
Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. You can drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Online users can listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. The Audacious player comes with a modern GTK-themed interface and Winamp Classic interface and skins.
Audacious 3.7 : New Features
- Playlists can be shuffled by whole albums rather than single tracks.
- Internet streams can be recorded while playing via a simple record button (GTK+ only).
- The playlist export window displays supported formats in a drop-down list (GTK+ only).
- A new, unified window has been added for managing equalizer presets (GTK+ only).
- The user interface automatically adjusts to be more usable on high-resolution screens (GTK+ only).
- An “Edit Lyrics” option has been added to the LyricWiki plugin, which opens the edit page for the current song.
- Guessing of missing tag fields can be disabled.
- Decoding and playback of standard input is possible with e.g. echo file.mp3 | audacious –
Qt interface improvements
The Qt interface can be customized with several new appearance settings. Many other small fixes and improvements have been made, such as a visualizer in the info bar, to bring the interface closer to feature-parity with the GTK+ interface.
In addition, the following plugins have been ported to Qt:
- Winamp Classic Interface
- Playlist Manager
- Search Tool
- Status Icon
Bugs fixed since Audacious 3.6.2
- Replay Gain information is read correctly from ID3v2.3 tags.
- “Open Containing Folder” works on Microsoft Windows.
- Internet streams no longer show a negative remaining time.
- With JACK output, monaural streams are played to both speakers.
- Older Winamp skins without eq_ex.bmp are loaded correctly.
- Absolute file paths using legacy character sets are loaded correctly from M3U playlists.
- Winamp skins with undersized bitmaps are displayed correctly (no more gray blocks).
Other changes
- The latest version of libguess is included to allow character set detection on all systems.
- In dual GTK and Qt builds, incompatible plugins are hidden to avoid confusion.
- AdPlug has been updated to version 2.2.1. libbinio 1.4 is also included.
- Most audtool commands now apply to the playlist which is playing, even if it is in the background.
- The crossfade effect handles songs of different sample rates more gracefully (no warning message). However, resampling is still recommended to avoid clicks between songs.
Download and Installation
The developer of the app has maintain a Launchpad PPA which can be used to acquire .deb packages for Ubuntu (derivates) >= 14.04. It is recommended to add the PPA for automatic updates:
Install Audacious 3.7 in Ubuntu
Audacious 3.7 beta 1 is the latest beta / unstable release for Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Audacious 3.7 beta 1 can be installed via the WebUpd8 Unreleased/Backports PPA for Ubuntu and derivatives. Run the following commands to add the PPA and install Audacious 3.7 beta 1:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacious
Install Audacious 3.6 (Stable Release) in Ubuntu
To install Audacious 3.6 in Ubuntu, run the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacious
- Credit: http://webupd8.org/
Once installed, Audacious can be opened from Ubuntu Dash.
Please note that you will find two Audacious menu options in the menu or Ubuntu Dash. First one is called “Audacious” and another one is called “Audacious Qt Interface.” Select “Audacious” from the menu for the GTK2 interface and “Audacious Qt Interface” for the Qt interface.
Download Links for Audacious
Current stable release for Audacious media player [Audacious 3.6.2 (May 30, 2015)] can be downloaded for GTK+ 2 or Qt 5 or for GTK+ 3. Similarly, Audacious 3.7-beta1 (October 1, 2015) can also be downloaded for GTK+ 2 or Qt 5 or for GTK+ 3.
Current stable release: 3.6.2 (May 30, 2015)
For GTK+ 2 or Qt 5:
- audacious-3.6.2.tar.bz2 (530 KB)
- audacious-plugins-3.6.2.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)
For GTK+ 3:
- audacious-3.6.2-gtk3.tar.bz2 (530 KB)
- audacious-plugins-3.6.2-gtk3.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)
Current testing release: 3.7-beta1 (October 1, 2015)
For GTK+ 2 or Qt 5:
- audacious-3.7-beta1.tar.bz2 (560 KB)
- audacious-plugins-3.7-beta1.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)
For GTK+ 3:
- audacious-3.7-beta1-gtk3.tar.bz2 (560 KB)
- audacious-plugins-3.7-beta1-gtk3.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)