Audacious 3.6.1 released, Install on Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Audacious 3.6.1 released Now, Install on Debian 8 "jessie", Debian 7 "wheezy" , Fedora 22, Fedora 21, Fedora 20, Arch Linux, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) or Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

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. 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. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.
Audacious runs on Linux, on BSD derivatives, and on Microsoft Windows. To download and install the latest version (currently 3.6.1), please see the download page.

What's new in Audacious 3.6.1:

• Bugs fixed include #511, #512, #518, #520, and #522.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for a wide range of audio file formats, support for dragging and dropping of individual song files and entire music folders, ability to search for albums or artists in your entire music collection, edit or create playlists, as well as to listen to Audio-CDs or Internet streams.

In addition, it features a graphical equalizer that lets users to tweak the sound, supports LADSPA effects, a complex plugin architecture (a collection of plugins is available for download separately), and support for Winamp Classic skins.

The plugins that are distributed along with the Audacious audio player will extend its default functionality, allowing users to fetch lyrics for songs, set alarms, add support for even more audio file formats, add tray icon support, Last.fm scrobbler, and much more.

Among other useful features, we can mention a queue manager, shuffle mode, repeat mode, "stop after this song" and "no playlist advance" functionality, detailed song information, removal of duplicate files, and renaming of files.

Audacious 3.6.1 released, Install on Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint
Users of Debian and its derivatives can install Audacious with apt-get:

# apt-get install audacious

Note that the versions of Audacious available in Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS releases tend to be rather out of date. Web Upd8 maintains a PPA with newer versions for Ubuntu users.

open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins

Optional, to remove audacious and audacious-plugins, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands: :

sudo apt-get remove audacious audacious-plugins

Fedora
Fedora users can install Audacious using yum:

# yum install audacious

However, the “audacious-plugins” package distributed by Fedora is lacking important plugins; most notably, the MP3 decoder plugin. The missing plugins can be installed by enabling the RPM Fusion repositories and running:

# yum install audacious-plugins-freeworld

Arch Linux
Audacious can be installed in Arch Linux using pacman:

# pacman -S audacious

Some plugins may fail to load unless all optional dependencies of the “audacious-plugins” package are satisfied. The ArchWiki has additional information about running Audacious on Arch Linux.

Gentoo
Gentoo includes Audacious in its portage tree, as media-sound/audacious. You can install the Gentoo ebuilds using emerge:

# emerge media-sound/audacious

To get the latest version, you may need to use the testing branch. See the Gentoo documentation for more details.

Gentoo package page for audacious
Gentoo package page for audacious-plugins 

Source Code

For GTK+ 2 or Qt 5:

• audacious-3.6.1.tar.bz2 (530 KB)
• audacious-plugins-3.6.1.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)

For GTK+ 3:

• audacious-3.6.1-gtk3.tar.bz2 (530 KB)
• audacious-plugins-3.6.1-gtk3.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)

Older releases are available here.


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