(on Wikipedia)
https://audacious-media-player.org/

An audio player which can deal with many formats.

I keep this around because it can handle oldschool formats quite well (Commodore 64's SID, .mod, etc.). See Oldschool music.

• See also:

• find_tools_media.sh

• Headless audacious (audtool) HOWTO

• Global Hotkey in Windows is not supported, but can be done with AutoHotkey

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• 2019-07-07 - 3.7.2-1+b1 on Debian 9.9.0-i386-xfce-CD-1

• 2017-11-17 - 3.5 on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD

  • ASMA (Atari) show a 3 minute length.
  • HVSC (Commodore SID) don't show multiple songs and don't allow fast forwarding any more. I also don't see a way to use the HVSC file list.
• 2009-12-29 - 2.1 on Unity Linux 64bit-beta1

• 2009-08-24 - 2.1 on Unity Linux 0.99-alpha2, updated 2009-08-19

  • Seems to work just fine. It looks and acts like audacious1. I'll just use it as a drop-in replacement.
• 2009-07-19 - 2.1 on Unity Linux 0.99-alpha1

• 2009-04-11 - 1.5.1 [4581:dbddef699892] on Unity Linux 0.99-alpha2, updated 2009-08-12.

  • This date doesn't make sense..
• 2009-04-11 - 1.5.1 [4581:dbddef699892] probably on PCLinuxOS 2007.
• 2009-03-26 - 1.5.1 on (distribution not recorded)
• 2007-09-17 - 1.3.2 on PCLinuxOS

• 2007-09-17 - I used to use XMMS.

Beautified playlist ∞

• TODO - is there a way to say "if not" ?

• TODO - if there's no title, display file-name

For copy-paste:

${artist}${?album:${?artist: - }[${year}${?year: - }${album}${?track-number: - #}${track-number}] }${?title: - ${title}}${?title:${?comment: - }}${?comment:(${comment})}

${artist}
${?album:
${?artist: - }
[${year}${?year: - }
${album}
${?track-number: - #}
${track-number}
] }
${?title: - ${title}}
${?title:${?comment: - }}
${?comment:(${comment})}

A simple way ∞

${file-name}${?comment: - (${comment})}

2009-12-29 - 2.1 ∞

No matter what I do, I get an error trying to start it up. I have themes, I know about -i, but nothing works!

audacious2: unable to launch selected interface skinned

2009-07-19 - 2.1 ∞

su

smart --install libmowgli-devel libmcs-devel
tar -xvvzf audacious-2.1.tgz
cd audacious-2.1
./configure && make && make install
cd ..

tar -xvvzf audacious-plugins-2.1.tgz
cd audacious-plugins-2.1
# Solves "configure: error: Cannot find Audacious 2.1 or later, have you installed audacious yet?"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig"
./configure && make && make install

Compiled from source. Launches, but doesn't play .mp3, .ogg or .sid! I don't know how to troubleshoot. I think I have all the libraries installed.

I've tried..

smart install libsidplay2-devel libogg-devel libwavpack-devel liblame-devel libmpg123-devel libquicktime-lame libmad-devel

• 2009-04-12 - 1.5.1 on (distribution not recorded)

2009-04-12 - 1.5.1 ∞

Running headless ∞

Running headless (no GUI) - could make it a commandline player then. I could make scripting to control it! cplay or my own scripting could then use it, and all it's wonderful plugins..

Launch it:

audacious -H &

Check the previously-used playlist:
(If you've already configured it to show one)

audtool playlist-display

Nuke the playlist and add one song:
(Does not work with wildcards, uses the first match_

audtool playlist-addurl-to-new-playlist 1.mp3

Play controls:

audtool playback-play
audtool playback-pause
audtool playback-stop

Append one song to the playlist:
(Does not work with wildcards, uses the first match)

audtool playlist-addurl 2.mp3

Append a list of songs:

find -exec audtool playlist-addurl {} \;
find -L . -name '*.mp3' -type f -exec audtool playlist-addurl {} \;

Next/previous item (stops working at the end of the playlist):

audtool playlist-advance
audtool playlist-reverse

Exit:

audtool shutdown

2009-04-11 - 1.5.1 [4581:dbddef699892] ∞

With the playlist revealed, I find that it "sticks" to the mouse and hops around as I move the mouse.

Configuration ∞

Last checked as of 2009-04-11

• Skin: Classic

All these plugins come with Audacious.

Plugins - General

• Global Hotkey ()

  • I prefer this over EvDev (0.2p1). It seems a lot happier.

• Status Icon (0.5)

  • right-click Menu: Audacious standard menu
  • Mouse scroll Action: Change volume
    - This is particularly good, since I only use aumix-text in an xterm summoned with a hotkey. It's convenient to mouse wheel to change volume. Mind you, I also have a knob on my keyboard, but I don't always remember to use it.
  • Plugin home page
  • I also wanted to edit /usr/share/pixmaps/audacious.png so that the icon isn't so visible. But it doesn't seem to get recognized. Sigh.

Plugins - Effects

• Extra Stereo

  • I kindof like it. Audiophiles are probably cringing..
  • It heightens some of the bass, which I hate, so I'm not using it.

SID playback

• Need to modify misc and have sub-songs added. Who the fuck would have that disabled by default?

2009-04-11 - 1.5.1 [4581:dbddef699892] ∞

• Now only one instance is run.

• For some reason, it's always on top.

  • Oh wow, they hid the options behind that tiny little 'o' in the design of the skin, at the top left.

• There is no feature to start minimized. I want to auto-start it, and use the tray plugin it has, so that it gets out of my way right away. BUT.. if you exit audacious while it's trayed, it'll start trayed next time. That's not a bad compromise.

2009-03-26 - 1.5.1 ∞

• audacious filename.ext plays the previously-selected file!

  • Fixed with a preference.

• Seems to launch multiple instances now. Boo. Using a file manager, if I click to open one instance, and then click elsewhere to start a different song, it starts a second session of audacious. WHAT THE HELL.

  • ~/.config/audacious/config has allow_multiple_instances=FALSE already!

• enqueue bug

  • Might not be the official bug tracker..

• Refuses to even launch when being given a 0-byte file to play.

  • It should launch, give a notice and without waiting it should skip to play the next song if available.
  • Multiple errors would then be an issue, just queue them up in a nice list.
  • I wonder if the same thing happens with an unreadable file or a non-file.

A still different round of attempts ∞

Attempted with 1.5.1 2009-03-26 .. dammit, it's completely busted.

• I can't start it up and have it actually play the file I tell it to.
• I cannot figure out how to clear the playlist and add a file and play that.

• dammit, this is so stupid, it's ridiculous.

fail fail fail:

The commandline doesn't properly work

audacious -H filename.ext &
audacious -H filename.ext &
audtool playlist-display
audtool playback-play
audtool playlist-addurl-to-new-playlist filename.ext
audtool playqueue-add 1 filename.ext
audtool playlist-advance
audtool playlist-addurl filename.ext

A different round of attempts ∞

An earlier test of 1.5.1 - but since there were so many other oddities, I wonder if I had a bad build or something. Very strange.

I failed at this. I just use the tray plugin, it works perfectly.

props: to the olive docs

You can run Audacious with -H flag, which will make it run headless. Then you can control it using audtool. Admitedly, this is not the most comfortable way, but clients for Audacious are being developed.

2007-09-17 - 1.3.2 ∞

• Can't play SID files if they are misnamed as .dat

• Can't skip to next/previous tracks if playing a SID.

  • This can probably be fixed by disabling extension checking. I'm not sure.

• Has the same annoyances of XMMS

  • Stupid secondary playlist that's not attached, which can't be resized using normal window manager alt-rightclick-drag .. but at least it looks a whole lot better.
  • control-3 can't be exited with escape. Sigh.

• It has a really annoying habit of having the not-wanted mouseover popup on the alt-e playlist list.. this popup STICKS there even after I close it. Argh!

Last updated 2022-06-05 at 18:50:31