Audacious
Audacious is a
semi-lightweight audio player with a WinAmp/XMMS-like skinnable GUI.
It
supports most popular audio formats including but not limited to: MP3,
AAC, WMA v1-2, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, various module formats,
console/chip formats, CD Audio, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.
It has a compact, collapsible, movable playlist editor
allowing you to view,
sort, shuffle, load and save your music playlists. Content can be
dragged directly onto the playlist, making it quick and easy to add
media from different sources.
The built-in equalizer is also collapsible and movable.
Equalizer presets can be saved and loaded, and
configured to load presets automatically depending on the file being
played.
Oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, and voiceprint
visualizations are built in and can be customized. Audacious also
supports external plugins, allowing endless possibilities for
visualizations, new input and output capabilities, and audio effects
and enhancements.
Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player, a
multimedia player that uses a
skinned user interface based on Winamp 2.x skins, which itself was
initially
forked from XMMS. Gentoo
published an interesting article
about the reasons why their distro dropped XMMS.
The reason for the creation of Audacious was mainly because
of technical problems with Beep Media Player.
Features include:
- Seeking in files
- Volume/Balance
- Shuffle play
- Repeat play
- Playlist editor
- Spectrum Analyzer
- One Line mode al'a WinShade in Winamp
- Oscilloscope
- Timer Elapsed/Timer Remaining
- Plug-in system Output/Input/Effect/General/Visualization
- Scrobbler Plugin - a plugin that enables you to listen to
Last.FM streams and submit tracks to Last.FM
- Song Change - a plugin that executes scripts at
the beginning, end of songs and the end of a playlist
- EvDev-Plug - a plugin that allows you to control
Audacious with a gamepad or joystick
- Status Icon - a plugin that allows you to shrink
Audacious down to the system tray
- Audacious OSD - a plugin that announces songs for you
- Alarm - a plugin that can schedule playback at a given
time each day (like an Alarm Clock)
- “Search tool” plugin that allows searching a music library
and creating playlists by artist, album, title, or genre
- Equalizer
- Double Size option
- Winamp 2.0 skin support (can use wsz files), XMMS skins
- GTK Requesters (with theme support)
- Streaming/Shoutcast(1.0/1.1)/Icecast support
- Auto remove borders if the WM has support for it
- Fast jump in playlist
- Scroll wheel support
- Saves HTTP streams to HD
- HTTP authentication
- Plays MPEG layer 1/2/3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis
- Proxy authentication support
- Dock some of the plugins into the GTK interface
- Configurable playlist columns
- Supports the following codecs: MP3, AAC, AAC+, Vorbis,
FLAC, Wavpack, Musepack, TTA, WMA, ALAX, 150 different module formats,
a dozen chiptune formats, Playstation audio, Ad-lib chiptunes via
AdPlug library, Microsoft ADPCM, RIFF .wav, data, more than 18 other WV
formats, MIDI, and CD Audio
- Support for a subset of the MPRIS 2 protocol, allowing
Audacious to be controlled from the Ubuntu Sound Menu
- Visualization:
- Paranormal Visualization Studio -- a plugin like AVS
- ProjectM -- a plugin like Milkdrop
- Blur Scope
- Spectrum Analyzer
- RockLight -- a stroboscope for Thinkpad and Macintosh
lights
- Transcoding
- Support for GTK 3.0
- Translated into many different languages including
Bulgarian, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, and more
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Audacious also features in our 'Linux
Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category
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Last Updated Tuesday, February 14 2012 @ 03:07 PM EST
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