Audacious (software)
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Audacious 3.2-devel in Fedora 16
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| Initial release | October 24, 2005 |
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| Stable release | 3.8.2 (January 20, 2017) |
| Preview release | 3.4 (June 28, 2013) |
| Repository | github |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++11 (qt and GTK+ v2) |
| Operating system | Linux, Windows |
| Type | Audio player |
| License | 2-clause BSD license |
| Website | audacious-media-player |
Audacious is a free and open source audio player with a focus on low resource use, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats. It is designed primarily for use on POSIX-compatible systems such as Linux, with limited support for Microsoft Windows. Audacious is the default audio player in Lubuntu and in Ubuntu Studio.
Audacious began as a fork of Beep Media Player, which itself is a fork of XMMS. William "nenolod" Pitcock decided to fork Beep Media Player after the original development team announced that they were stopping development in order to create a next-generation version called BMPx. According to the Audacious home page, Pitcock and others "had [their] own ideas about how a player should be designed, which [they] wanted to try in a production environment."
Since version 2.1, Audacious includes both the Winamp-like interface known from previous versions and a new, GTK+-based interface known as GTKUI, which resembles foobar2000 to some extent. GTKUI became the default interface in Audacious 2.4.
Before version 3.0, Audacious used the GTK+ 2.x toolkit by default. Partial support for GTK+ 3.x was added in version 2.5, while version 3.0 has full support for GTK+ 3.x and uses it by default. However, dissatisfied with the evolution of GTK+ 3.x, the Audacious team chose to revert to GTK+ 2 starting with the 3.6 release, with long term plans of porting to Qt.
Audacious contains built-in gapless playback.
Audacious owes a large portion of its functionality to plugins, including all codecs. More features are available via third-party plugins.
Current versions of the Audacious core classify plugins as follows (some are low level and not user-visible at this time):
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