Audacious
Audacious is a free and advanced audio player based on GTK+. It's focused on audio quality and supports a wide variety of audio codecs, and is easily extensible through third-party plugins.
Contents
Installation
Install the audacious package. If you want audio CD support, install libcdio.
Configuration
Interfaces
Audacious currently provides two interfaces:
- Winamp classic interface
- GTK+ interface.
One may switch between two interfaces in Audacious.
Adding Winamp skins
Adding Winamp skins to Audacious is very simple. Just copy your skin file (.zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2 file) to either ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins
(affect your user only) or /usr/share/audacious/Skins
(affects every user), and then you can browse and select it from Skinned Interface tab in Preferences. Another way is dragging the skin file directly into the list view of available skins.
Tips and tricks
Audtool
Audacious is shipped with a powerful management tool called Audtool. Audtool could be used to retrieve information or to control the player.
For example, to retrieve current song title or artist, issue the following command:
$ audtool current-song $ audtool current-song-tuple-data artist
There are also functions to control playback, manipulate the playlist, equalizer and main window. For the whole option list, see:
$ audtool --help
MP3 problems
Install mpg123.
Troubleshooting
Audacious sets itself as the default file manager
See File manager functionality#Directories are not opened in the file manager.