A few days ago the release of the new version of «Audacious 4.6» which comes with a good number of practical adjustments for both those who prefer a modern look and those who are nostalgic.
This version abandons outdated development tools to fully embrace the Meson system, making life easier for those responsible for packaging the program, while at the user level it adds much-requested conveniences such as an integrated file explorer and greater compatibility with high-quality formats.
Audacious 4.6 highlights
One of the most noticeable changes is the New plugin to browse system files directly from the playereliminating the need to constantly open external windows to search for your music. Furthermore, Those using the GTK-based version now have the built-in playback history plugin in this library, facilitating the visualization of recently listened-to topics.
An important detail for users of modern distributionsThis is how the program handles the graphics serversSince the mythical Winamp-style look still doesn't get along with Wayland, the Developers added an option to force the use of Xwayland. This feature is enabled by default if you choose the classic interface or if your system has older versions of Qt, preventing crashes or visual issues. Aesthetically, if you're using macOS, you now have access to a dedicated plugin called "Now Playing" that displays information about the currently playing song on your screen.
Full control over your lists and metadata
Another new feature of this version is that The player lets you organize your tracks. musicals not only because of the name or the artist, but also by the bitrate and by the exact dates the file was created or modifiedIf you're one of those who manages the system from the terminal, you'll be happy to know that It is now possible to export your playlists directly using the audtool command-line utility.
Interacting with the program also feels more natural. In the Winamp-style interface Built on Qt, now You can drag and drop files from other applications directly into the main window. In addition, the option to retrieve the confirmation window when deleting playlists was enabled, and new keyboard shortcuts were included to quickly switch between playlist tabs, streamlining the workflow.
On the other hand, we will also find that this new version of Audacious 4.6 now plays the Musepack SV8 format smoothly and understands all MIME types and high-quality AIFF file extensions.
Also The reading of metadata was improved, The program is now able to extract song lyrics directly from the tags of Opus, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC files. At the same time, the reading of volume normalization data (ReplayGain) via the FFmpeg engine has been extended to many more file types.
Finally, under the hood, This release resolves several issues when opening malformed metadata, Fixes text encoding problems in Windows that ruined the display of letters and fixes annoying memory leaks in certain pluginsensuring that playback of your music library flows smoothly without interruption.
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about this new version, you can consult the details in the following link
How to install Audacious 4.6 on Ubuntu and derivatives?
This release comes with two interfaces GTK + -based and Qt-based user settings. The builds offered are prepared for various Linux distributions and for Windows.
Although for now packages have not been updated in Ubuntu repositories nor in the PPA that maintains Ubuntu Handbook. Therefore, at this time (when writing the article) only source code available of the new version for compilation. The link is this.
You can compile the source code using the following basic commands:
./configure make make install
Or if you want to wait, you can install as soon as this new version is available in the Web ubuntuhandbook PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps sudo apt update sudo apt install audacious
uninstall
Finally, if for any reason you want to remove this program from your system or want to remove the previous version, to perform a clean installation of the new one, just open a terminal and type the following command on it:
sudo apt-get remove audacious
And to remove the repository, the command is this:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps