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Install Audacious 3.4 In Ubuntu Via PPA

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhVA1Sg2-NfHPszqN4yeNovywlN81wekuo-2LFhh82A7CO8n5wyhMSE_PyE3l_27giem1RefNeU7Z4iweuqH-EqkzwWPgxcPkHV635kTQkUpH5GmJXajeK-mfLWgnRarFPipA-d_djrs/s915/audacious-3-4-screenshot_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Audacious Media Player GTK" border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhVA1Sg2-NfHPszqN4yeNovywlN81wekuo-2LFhh82A7CO8n5wyhMSE_PyE3l_27giem1RefNeU7Z4iweuqH-EqkzwWPgxcPkHV635kTQkUpH5GmJXajeK-mfLWgnRarFPipA-d_djrs/s320/audacious-3-4-screenshot_1.png" title="Audacious Media Player GTK" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Audacious 3.4</b> has been released recently and is now available in the main WebUpd8 PPA for Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04. The new version doesn't come with major changes, but there are many small new features and tweaks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/">Audacious</a> is an open source audio player for Linux and Windows, that ships with numerous plugins and can use either a GTK or a Winamp2-like interface, supporting Winamp Classic skins.</i></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in Audacious 3.4 since 3.3:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Added a new scrobbler plugin which uses the Last.fm Scrobbling API 2.0;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added a new 3D frequency spectrum visualizer, ported from XMMS;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Album art fetching is now done in the background so that it will not make the UI unresponsive;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added a new command-line option (--quit-after-play) has been added to allow the player to exit automatically when finished playing;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">A global hotkey can be configured to enable/disable the "stop after current song" option;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">The ModPlug plugin has a new preferences window;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">An alternative sample rate converter plugin, using libsoxr, has been added;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">When search terms are too generic, the search tool now shows the first 100 results instead of showing no results as in previous versions.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GTK interface changes in Audacious 3.4:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Playlist columns can now be resized, however, according to the changelog, this requires GTK 3.8 to work properly;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New option to automatically remove duplicate entries from a playlist;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New option to repeat only a portion of a song ("A-to-B repeat");</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New option to show remaining instead of elapsed time;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Playlist entries can now be sorted by song length;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New option to sort, randomize, and reverse the order of selected playlist entries only.</li></ul><br />Here are a few more Audacious screenshots:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKcaYB8OvE3lO2TXvmuplMkAifW5w9kN_e_Dh6vItfP-Nmcl2MPh2EoF8yeL6T9K9ULAFC0ughW8ysQ68RSHDGxIBUdhSxJWQC_IcR80pXFHUc4o5VxcvJONXrzf6Llonf2vbu78fp0w/s563/audacious-3.4-screenshot_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Audacious Media Player Winamp2 interface" border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKcaYB8OvE3lO2TXvmuplMkAifW5w9kN_e_Dh6vItfP-Nmcl2MPh2EoF8yeL6T9K9ULAFC0ughW8ysQ68RSHDGxIBUdhSxJWQC_IcR80pXFHUc4o5VxcvJONXrzf6Llonf2vbu78fp0w/s320/audacious-3.4-screenshot_2.png" title="Audacious Media Player Winamp2 interface" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audacious Winamp2 interface</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdK7WD06tgPlH6oxOLpgfxd-cyeo3jN6J-qdfe7jZdAQzK6nD0qOaKVv6faUnGYBSJG6xV6z9fnLy6rgEmpNdwdNFzt3DeKA62jGzDzgXFQGpPTgAovkcxalQGdjxvDgitAuQ1wdwpbLE/s639/audacious-3.4-screenshot_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdK7WD06tgPlH6oxOLpgfxd-cyeo3jN6J-qdfe7jZdAQzK6nD0qOaKVv6faUnGYBSJG6xV6z9fnLy6rgEmpNdwdNFzt3DeKA62jGzDzgXFQGpPTgAovkcxalQGdjxvDgitAuQ1wdwpbLE/s320/audacious-3.4-screenshot_3.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audacious Winamp2 interface</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXgXB2oezsa_JzfN4eD5PKr7vsuWbvBeUEwQm1IStLa6yaFerZgyWVQJOFIgIg697hgtRNC5B0TRjbWjOdM8q9HIKGu-J5aL5G78yXWR4ER5tCqKNvpp8rnWB_DmWZ1vs8eFWajGoLHkM/s1019/audacious-3.4-screenshot_4.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Audacious Media Player GTK" border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXgXB2oezsa_JzfN4eD5PKr7vsuWbvBeUEwQm1IStLa6yaFerZgyWVQJOFIgIg697hgtRNC5B0TRjbWjOdM8q9HIKGu-J5aL5G78yXWR4ER5tCqKNvpp8rnWB_DmWZ1vs8eFWajGoLHkM/s320/audacious-3.4-screenshot_4.png" title="Audacious Media Player GTK" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audacious GTK interface with docked plugins - see how to dock plugins <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfe5WAFmgZg">HERE</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h2>Install Audacious 3.4 in Ubuntu</h2><b><br /></b> <br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the main WebUpd8 PPA</b> (note: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8">the PPA</a> has multiple packages so take a look at the package list before using it) <b>and install Audacious in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins</code></pre><br />For other Linux distributions and Windows, see the Audacious <a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/download">downloads page</a>.

Install Audacious 3.4 In Ubuntu Via PPA

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Audacious 3.4 Beta 1 Released [Ubuntu PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The first <a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/">Audacious</a> 3.4 beta version is available for download. Audacious is a fast, lightweight music player which comes with numerous plugins and two interfaces: a Winamp-like interface (it even supports Winamp 2.x skins) and a GTK interface.</b></div><br />Audacious GTK interface:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/audacious-3.4.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Audacious 3.4 gtk interface" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6JyVgF1Kd4EmKUcu6JJVVr4GQPS8js2PwuaFWG_YGAxhxaBzunxFBtiRZRuwB1i_DxddQSzhOfsaiMt0rc8Qcy3mfjLbfyVLe3AxsaA64CTS9Kx-KIY7H92iDcykR5VWQulnJ4vL18Nk/s320/audacious-3.4.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Audacious Winamp Classic interface:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/audacious-3.4-winamp-interface.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Audacious 3.4 beta 1 winamp classic interface" src="http://img.netupd8.com/audacious-3.4-winamp-interface_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><b>Changes in Audacious 3.4 beta 1:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">The old scrobbler plugin has been replaced by a new one that uses the latest Last.fm Scrobbling 2.0 API;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">The ModPlug plugin has a new preferences window;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">An alternate sample rate converter plugin has been added;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">When search terms are too generic, the search tool now shows the first 100 results instead of showing no results as in previous versions;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Audtool can now seek with sub-second precision;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Album art fetching is done in the background so it doesn't make the UI unresponsive;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New command line option: "--quit-after-play";</li><li style="text-align: justify;">You can configure a global hotkey to enable/disable "stop after current song";</li><li style="text-align: justify;">You can now automatically remove duplicate entries from a playlist;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Repeat only a portion of a song;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">The playlist columns can now be resized - according to the official changelog, this requires a patched version of GTK3 and will work with GTK3.8 without any patches. In my test, this did work in Ubuntu 13.04 (which has GTK 3.6.4);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Other changes and fixes.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install Audacious 3.4 Beta 1 in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The latest Audacious 3.4 beta 1 is available in our <a href="https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/unstable/+packages">Unstable PPA</a>. Since this is beta quality software, you might find bugs (and so are all the packages in this PPA), so use it at your own risk.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To add the WebUpd8 Unstable PPA and install Audacious 3.4 beta 1 (with patched ffaudio so it works with the ffmpeg / libav version available in the Ubuntu repositories) in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install audacious</code></pre><br /><i>Audacious 3.4 will only be available in our Unstable PPA while in beta. The final release will be available in the main WebUpd8 PPA.</i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions, download the Audacious 3.4 beta 1 source code from its <a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/download">download page</a>.</div>

Audacious 3.4 Beta 1 Released [Ubuntu PPA]

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Audacious Media Player 3.3.3 Available To Install In Ubuntu 12.10 Or 12.04 (PPA)

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/">Audacious</a> is a fast, lightweight music player that focuses on high audio quality. The application comes with a huge list of plugins and with two interfaces: a GTK interface (used by default) and a Winamp 2.x like interface (to which you can switch from the menu: <i>View > Interface > Winamp Classic Interface</i>).</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/audacious.png" rel="image_group" title="Audacious 3.3.3"><img alt="Audacious 3.3.3 GTK3" src="http://img.netupd8.com/audacious_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Audacious has been updated to version 3.3.3</b> recently and is now available, as usual, in the <b>main WebUpd8 PPA, for Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10</b>. There are no new features in this release, only bug fixes:</div><ul><li>Export more metadata information through MPRIS2</li><li>"Close to tray icon" doesn't work when using Winamp interface</li><li>Mixed stereo/mono OGG streaming don't play properly</li><li>Fixed fsync() error which was returned for files on read-only mediums such as a CD-ROM</li><li>PSF plugin skips silences even when they are in the middle of a song</li><li>Ogg vorbis tags do not update</li><li>"Close Playlist" dialog ignores GTK dialog button order</li><li>Cannot find decoder for certain urls</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Audacious media player package in our PPA uses a patch to get ffaudio (vma / wav files) to work with the FFMpeg version available in the official Ubuntu repositories and with this release, I've had to add yet another patch to get everything to work on Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10. Hopefully everything will work properly (I didn't encounter any issues in my tests).</div><br /><br />Here are a few more Audacious 3.3.3 screenshots:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/audacious-3.3.3-gtk3.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Audacious 3.3.3 - GTK interface with the search tool on the left"><img alt="Audacious 3.3.3" src="http://img.netupd8.com/audacious-3.3.3-gtk3_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GTK3 interface<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/audacious-3.3.3-winamp.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Audacious - Winamp2-like interface"><img alt="Audacious 3.3.3 Winamp interface" src="http://img.netupd8.com/audacious-3.3.3-winamp_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winamp 2 like interface</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/audacicous-3.3.3-winamp_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Audacious - Winamp2-like interface"><img alt="Audacious 3.3.3" src="http://img.netupd8.com/audacicous-3.3.3-winamp_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The interface is as customizable as Winamp 2 and it even supports Winamp 2 skins</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Audacious 3.3.3 in Ubuntu 12.10 or 12.04</h2><br /><b>To add the main WebUpd8 PPA and install Audacious Media Player in Ubuntu 12.10 or 12.04, use the commands below:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install audacious</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're upgrading from an older version, make sure you upgrade all the Audacious packages (use "sudo apt-get upgrade" or Software Updater / Synaptic).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions and Windows, get Audacious from its <a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/download">download page</a>.</div>

Audacious Media Player 3.3.3 Available To Install In Ubuntu 12.10 Or 12.04 (PPA)

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Install Audacious 3.3 In Ubuntu 12.04 Or 12.10 [PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/">Audacious</a> is an audio player that focuses on high audio quality and low resource usage which comes with a pretty large plugin list as well as two interfaces: a GTK interface and a Winamp 2.x like interface.</i><br /><br />With a bit of a delay, <b>Audacious 3.3 stable is now available in the main WebUpd8 PPA, for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and 12.10 Quantal Quetzal</b>. The new version brings GTK interface improvements, partially re-written core output which now supports to vary the playback speed without restarting playback (there's a new plugin that takes advantage of this), a more intelligent search that lets you search by artist, album and song title in the same time and more.</div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Changes in Audacious 3.3:</b><br /><ul><li>the playback toolbar has been styled as a "primary toolbar" to make it look better in GNOME 3 and indeed, Audacious 3.3 looks a lot better with Ambiance / Adwaita themes</li><li>a new genre column</li><li>Audacious now saves the current position within a song when you start playing a different playlist</li><li>more intelligent search - it now searches for the artist, album and song title simultaneously and more information is displayed</li><li>partially re-written core output which now supports to vary the playback speed without restarting playback</li><li>the LIRC plugin, which was up till now missing in the Audacious 3.x series, has been made to support GTK+ 3.x and is back</li><li>the GIO transport plugin is now enabled by default, supporting ftp://, sftp://, and smb:// URI protocols</li><li>the MPRIS2 plugin (used by GNOME Shell's Media Player indicator) now supports seeking and getting/setting the volume</li><li>changed/improved various parts of the preferences UI</li><li>the FLAC plugin now supports higher quality files (24-bit and surround)</li><li>over-amplified audio can be made to sound better by the use of a new “soft clipping” option</li><li><a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/news/16-audacious-3-3-released">more</a></li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNifBlnHtCqhogTx2n4OSfgvT2bLq0og7qEvj66ahPKmtnYrOAMvLIWSnmP3ESYaPqkYoPfr-gYr6onWpIBjN-dGUJ9B1JaN2hJL2H9H0lLrAUCWNNIsyVw9TD91KFSsIzth4YGut7dzBb/s1600/audacious-3-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="audacious media player 3.3" border="0" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNifBlnHtCqhogTx2n4OSfgvT2bLq0og7qEvj66ahPKmtnYrOAMvLIWSnmP3ESYaPqkYoPfr-gYr6onWpIBjN-dGUJ9B1JaN2hJL2H9H0lLrAUCWNNIsyVw9TD91KFSsIzth4YGut7dzBb/s320/audacious-3-3.png" title="audacious media player 3.3" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audacious 3.3 - GTK interface</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0A2zy9ASGg1ZZOH0DeIskVIbEzdlg3-5oDKdoiSt5z_TT9i95rRkWvZGAz75ZA9xLx9eJZOZxIpSVUt_LphvB3V44YjmKYmyVFWaUqIcLTfZsFusRqNrJ_jlFhHXcyOv04EgUWDHG7-l/s1600/audacious-3.3_winamp.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="audacious media player 3.3" border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0A2zy9ASGg1ZZOH0DeIskVIbEzdlg3-5oDKdoiSt5z_TT9i95rRkWvZGAz75ZA9xLx9eJZOZxIpSVUt_LphvB3V44YjmKYmyVFWaUqIcLTfZsFusRqNrJ_jlFhHXcyOv04EgUWDHG7-l/s320/audacious-3.3_winamp.png" title="audacious media player 3.3" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audacious 3.3 Winamp interface</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h2>Install Audacious 3.3 in Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10</h2><br /><b>To add the main WebUpd8 PPA and install Audacious 3.3 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin or 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install audacious</code></pre><br />For other Linux distributions and Windows, get Audacious from its <a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/download">download page</a>.

Install Audacious 3.3 In Ubuntu 12.04 Or 12.10 [PPA]

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Audacious 3.3 Alpha 1 Released With Improved UI, More [PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Audacious is a lightweight music player that comes with a clean GTK interface as well as a Winamp-like interface which supports Winamp 2.x skins.</i><br /><br /><b><a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/">Audacious</a> 3.3 alpha 1 has been released recently with user interface improvements, a more intelligent search tool, improved MPRIS2 plugin and other important changes.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>User interface improvements in Audacious 3.3 alpha 1:</b><br /><ul><li>a slight gradient is now used for the info bar to make it prettier</li><li>the info bar visualization can now be disabled</li><li>the playback toolbar has been styled as a "primary toolbar" to make it look better in GNOME 3 and indeed, Audacious 3.3 looks a lot better with Ambiance / Adwaita themes</li><li>a new genre column</li><li>changed/improved various parts of the preferences UI</li></ul><br />Audacious 3.3 alpha 1:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcJQjBIH2K1TIvgyXJ0Wu-QrayDBetUVyN_a9i-V8RU2ugdzqfYUKJvgGXb4HqG8TUUVSCeq5q4ox4oexBJjITQRr9X27S9BxFnhVhZUwJI-2j5KFA6gfgyDx9V7dch3I75eTK5-SSHMc/s1600/audacious-3.3-alpha1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="audacious 3.3" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcJQjBIH2K1TIvgyXJ0Wu-QrayDBetUVyN_a9i-V8RU2ugdzqfYUKJvgGXb4HqG8TUUVSCeq5q4ox4oexBJjITQRr9X27S9BxFnhVhZUwJI-2j5KFA6gfgyDx9V7dch3I75eTK5-SSHMc/s320/audacious-3.3-alpha1.png" title="audacious 3.3" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />And here's how the stable Audacious (3.2.3) looks like:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpoqIn4Lws5iZr4h6Zl790n41tvFvr7OdBYmpQipl_wyAtBCMR2r6ohl6oQDcykiYxuGTvkHVZL4EAFW6yO3QgZfmQxNR6wpM3lP9XX_OoIDeM2Jhkvn-TM1702zppeoEffLfMTOvBWw28/s1600/audacious-3.2.png"><img alt="Audacious 3.2.3" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpoqIn4Lws5iZr4h6Zl790n41tvFvr7OdBYmpQipl_wyAtBCMR2r6ohl6oQDcykiYxuGTvkHVZL4EAFW6yO3QgZfmQxNR6wpM3lP9XX_OoIDeM2Jhkvn-TM1702zppeoEffLfMTOvBWw28/s320/audacious-3.2.png" title="Audacious 3.2.3" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Other changes in Audacious 3.3 alpha 1:</b><br /><ul><li>the MPRIS2 plugin (used by GNOME Shell's Media Player indicator) now supports seeking and getting/setting the volume</li><li>the search tool plugin is more intelligent and lets you search by artist, album and song title simultaneously and also, more info is displayed when searching</li><li>new keyboard shortcut (CTRL + Y) to activate the search tool when using the GTK interface (escape brings the focus back to the playlist)</li><li>partially re-written core output code</li><li>new "speed and pitch" plugin (replacing SndStretch)</li><li>fixed audio conversions so that bit-perfect playback is now possible for 16-bit and 24-bit audio files</li><li>the GIO transport plugin is now enabled by default, supporting ftp://, sftp://, and smb:// URI protocols</li><li>the LIRC plugin has been re-added to Audacious</li><li>a new output plugin has been added for OpenBSD’s sndio audio system</li><li>the OSSv3 output plugin has been removed</li><li>a global hotkey can be assigned to raise/focus Audacious</li><li>Audacious now only supports GTK3; the 3.2.x branch with GTK2 support will be maintained for a while though</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install Audacious 3.3 alpha 1 in Ubuntu 12.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To <b>test</b> Audacious 3.3 alpha 1 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, you can use the Unstable WebUpd8 PPA. <b>Add the PPA and install Audacious 3.3 alpha 1 using the commands below:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install audacious</code></pre><br />For other Linux distributions, you can download Audacious 3.3 alpha 1 from <a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/download">HERE</a>.<br /><br />Remember, Audacious 3.3 is still in alpha so you might find bugs! Report the bugs @ <a href="http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/projects/audacious/issues">Audacious bug tracker</a>.

Audacious 3.3 Alpha 1 Released With Improved UI, More [PPA]

Audacious is a lightweight music player that comes with a clean GTK interface as well as a Winamp-like interface which supports Winamp 2.x s...

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