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
• 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
• Translated into many different languages including Bulgarian, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, and more

Audacious also features in our 'Linux Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category selector below allows you to filter the different types of software included in that separate article.

Last Updated Tuesday, August 11 2009 @ 02:31 PM EDT