Audacious Plugins 4.4.2

Download links:

• audacious-4.4.2.tar.bz2 (624 KB)
• audacious-plugins-4.4.2.tar.bz2 (1.8 MB)

New features and improvements:

• Trim whitespace in URL opener (#1482)

Bugs fixed:

• Parse font names containing digits correctly (#1427, #1483)
• Avoid overly large info popup on secondary screen (#1435)
• Hide info area text containing emoji properly (#1491)

Other changes:

• Fix deprecation warnings from Qt and libsidplayfp
• Update translations

Thanks to all the contributors and bug reporters.

Audacious Plugins 4.4.1

Download links:

• audacious-4.4.1.tar.bz2 (624 KB)
• audacious-plugins-4.4.1.tar.bz2 (1.8 MB)

New features and improvements:

• Support titlebar dimming for Winamp skins also with GTK
• Allow to never show playlist tabs also in GTK interface (#1409)
• Improve controls responsiveness with the Sndio output plugin
• Add Qt 6 support for the Qt Multimedia output plugin
• Support many more MPRIS metadata fields
• Include .adx as file extension for the FFmpeg plugin (#1466)

Bugs fixed:

• Include patch version in SONAMEs again (#1408)
• Fix writing tags into audio files on Windows (#1421)
• Make drag and drop work with GTK on Wayland (#1423)
• Fix build with GCC and Meson on macOS
• Handle big-endian systems correctly with Meson
• Fix excessive CPU usage with the Qt Multimedia output plugin
• Enable scroll buttons for playlist tabs on macOS (#1455)

Other changes:

• Lower GTK 3 version requirement from 3.22 to 3.18
• Offer SHA256 checksum files for our release tarballs (#1432)
• Make CDDB support optional for the Audio CD plugin (#1437)
• Allow minimum speed of 0.25 for the Speed and Pitch plugin (#1447)
• Prefer PulseAudio plugin over PipeWire plugin for better backwards compatibility
• Specify application ID and icon name for PulseAudio
• Update translations

Thanks to all the contributors and bug reporters.

Audacious Plugins 4.4

Download links:

• audacious-4.4.tar.bz2 (621 KB)
• audacious-plugins-4.4.tar.bz2 (1.8 MB)

New plugins and features:

• Add Background Music plugin which makes the sound equally loud within and between tracks, contributed by Michel Fleur
• Restore Lyrics plugin for GTK
• Add Disc Number support (#739)
• Read ReplayGain values in Opus files from R128 tags (#1138)
• Allow to disable column header sorting (#1273)
• Mute/unmute with middle mouse click on volume button (#1353)
• Add new lyrics provider for chartlyrics.com (#1357)
• Use a linear volume scale for PipeWire (#1358)
• Handle Shift-Enter shortcut to queue track in Jump-to-Song dialog
• Offer more configuration options for the Crossfade effect plugin
• Show a tooltip for the Qt status icon plugin
• Support the Scrobbler (Last.fm) plugin also on macOS and Windows
• Allow to run custom commands with the Song Change plugin when a song is stopped
• Support building Audacious on Cygwin with Meson

Bugs fixed since 4.3:

• Make use of Windows' root certificate store to validate HTTPS certificates (#1248)
• Provide the full range for libopenmpt's stereo separation (#1359)
• Handle MP3 files with multiple image tags correctly (#1360)
• Remove French prefix which lyrics.ovh embeds into all their lyrics
• Avoid needless resampling in the PipeWire output plugin
• Fix loading of local or cached lyrics, stored as .lrc files
• Make Scrobbler plugin work again by parsing Last.fm responses properly
• Don't treat MPG123_NEW_FORMAT as error when seeking in MP3 files
• Avoid crash when opening corrupted AAC files
• Fix build with C++20 standard

Changes since 4.4-beta1:

• Use X11/XWayland by default if available
• Prevent using Winamp interface on Wayland
• Install plugins on macOS as file instead of bundle (#1364)
• Improve Wayland support for GTK interface (#1369, #1388)
• Fix build with Qt 6.7.1 (#1393)
• Fix crash after a Qt interface could not be loaded (#1396)
• Plug memory leak for Opus files with embedded images
• Check for Qt SVG module at build time
• Include developer name in appdata file
• Update translations

Other changes:

• Qt 6 and GTK 3 are now used by default, Qt 5 and GTK 2 support can still be enabled at build time though
• GTK support is no longer considered legacy
• Meson is now the preferred way to build Audacious, so consider switching from Autotools
• Switch to x86-64 for Windows build
• Various minor UI improvements
• Our forum and bug tracker were migrated from Redmine to GitHub (see also the announcement)
• Releases are published on GitHub now, based on the corresponding Git tag.
  Tarballs created by us will still be available via https://distfiles.audacious-media-player.org, as before.

Known issues:

• Using the Winamp interface on Wayland is not supported due to limitations in Wayland regarding application-side window positioning (see also #common problems). We suggest to run Audacious via XWayland therefore.

Thanks to all the contributors and bug reporters.

Audacious Plugins 4.4-beta1

Download links:

• audacious-4.4-beta1.tar.bz2 (620 KB)
• audacious-plugins-4.4-beta1.tar.bz2 (1.8 MB)

New plugins and features:

• Add Background Music plugin which makes the sound equally loud within and between tracks, contributed by Michel Fleur
• Restore Lyrics plugin for GTK
• Add Disc Number support (#739)
• Read ReplayGain values in Opus files from R128 tags (#1138)
• Allow to disable column header sorting (#1273)
• Mute/unmute with middle mouse click on volume button (#1353)
• Add new lyrics provider for chartlyrics.com (#1357)
• Use a linear volume scale for PipeWire (#1358)
• Handle Shift-Enter shortcut to queue track in Jump-to-Song dialog
• Offer more configuration options for the Crossfade effect plugin
• Show a tooltip for the Qt status icon plugin
• Support the Scrobbler (Last.fm) plugin also on macOS and Windows
• Allow to run custom commands with the Song Change plugin when a song is stopped
• Support building Audacious on Cygwin with Meson

Bugs fixed since 4.3:

• Make use of Windows' root certificate store to validate HTTPS certificates (#1248)
• Provide the full range for libopenmpt's stereo separation (#1359)
• Handle MP3 files with multiple image tags correctly (#1360)
• Remove French prefix which lyrics.ovh embeds into all their lyrics
• Avoid needless resampling in the PipeWire output plugin
• Fix loading of local or cached lyrics, stored as .lrc files
• Make Scrobbler plugin work again by parsing Last.fm responses properly
• Don't treat MPG123_NEW_FORMAT as error when seeking in MP3 files
• Avoid crash when opening corrupted AAC files
• Fix build with C++20 standard

Other changes:

• Qt 6 and GTK 3 are now used by default, Qt 5 and GTK 2 support can still be enabled at build time though
• GTK support is no longer considered legacy
• Switch to x86-64 for Windows build
• Various minor UI improvements
• Our forum and bug tracker were migrated from Redmine to GitHub (see also the announcement)
• Releases are published on GitHub now, based on the corresponding Git tag.
  Tarballs created by us will still be available via https://distfiles.audacious-media-player.org, as before.

Known issues:

• When building Audacious with autotools on macOS, plugins are not found or loaded (#1364). Please use Meson instead as solution.
• Using the Winamp interface on Wayland is not supported due to limitations in Wayland regarding application-side window positioning (see also #common problems). We suggest to run Audacious via XWayland therefore.