Audacious is an open-source music player, having the features of a modern music player, including support for audio effects, equalizer, lyrics and plugins, visualization, support for Winamp skins and support for playlists organized in tabs.
Starting with Audacious 3.6, the software adopted GTK2 by default, while at Qt5 version is also available via the settings menu.
The latest version available is Audacious 3.6.2, which has been recently released, bringing the below changes:
- audacious won’t play back tagged True Audio (TTA) files
- crash when enable Dynamic Range Compresor plugin
- audacious skips to the next song when using audtool –playback-seek-relative -x and reaching the start of a song
- No sound with 36 kHz Ogg Vorbis file after equalizer is enabled.
Installation instructions:
Audacious is available via some third party PPA, so installing Audacious and keeping it up to date on Ubuntu and derivative systems is piece of cake. What you need to do is add the PPA to your system, refresh the local repositories and install the audaciuos package:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins
Optional, to remove audacious, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove audacious audacious-plugins
The instructions should work on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and derivative systems, like Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint 6, LXLE 14.04 and Linux Lite 2.