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Audacious is a free and advanced audio player. It is focused on audio quality and supports a wide variety of audio codecs, and is easily extensible through third-party plugins.

Installation

Install the audacious package.

Configuration

Plugins

AMIDI-Plug (MIDI Player)

To play MIDI and RMI files, it is required to install the fluidsynth package, and also install the sound font files, both freepats-general-midi and soundfont-fluid. No further configuration is required on the fluidsynth package, but for additional functionality check the FluidSynth instructions.

Afterwards, the plugin will be enabled, and in the plugin configuration panel (File, Settings ..., Plugins pane, Input tab, select AMIDI-Plug (MIDI Player)) add the installed sound font files one at a time (Extension .sf2) to the SoundFont dialog, they are located at /usr/share/soundfonts/.

Tips and tricks

Audtool

Audacious is shipped with a powerful management tool called Audtool which could be used to retrieve information or to control the player.

For example, to retrieve the current song's title or artist, issue the following commands:

$ audtool current-song
$ audtool current-song-tuple-data artist

There are also functions to control playback, manipulate the playlist, equalizer and main window. See audtool(1) for the whole list of options.

Winamp

To add classic Winamp skins to Audacious, just copy them to either ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins/ (user only) or /usr/share/audacious/Skins/ (system wide), then select them from the Skinned Interface tab in Preferences. Alternatively drag the skin file directly into the list view of available skins.

Troubleshooting

Audacious starts instead of file manager

See File manager functionality#Directories are not opened in the file manager.

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+[https://audacious-media-player.org/ Audacious] is a free and advanced audio player. It is focused on audio quality and supports a wide variety of audio codecs, and is easily extensible through third-party plugins.
-[http://audacious-media-player.org/ 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.
 == Installation ==
-[[Install]] the {{Pkg|audacious}} package. If you want audio CD support, install {{Pkg|libcdio}}.
+[[Install]] the {{Pkg|audacious}} package.
 == Configuration ==
-=== Interfaces ===
+=== Plugins ===
-{{Note|GTK+ is now the default interface in Audacious 2.4 and above.}}
+==== AMIDI-Plug (MIDI Player) ====
-Audacious currently provides two interfaces:
-* Winamp classic interface
-* GTK+ interface.
-One may switch between two interfaces in Audacious.
-==== Adding Winamp skins ====
+To play MIDI and RMI files, it is required to install the {{Pkg|fluidsynth}} package, and also install the sound font files, both {{Pkg|freepats-general-midi}} and {{Pkg|soundfont-fluid}}. No further configuration is required on the fluidsynth package, but for additional functionality check the [[FluidSynth]] instructions.
-Adding Winamp skins to Audacious is very simple. Just copy your skin file (.zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2 file) to either {{ic|~/.local/share/audacious/Skins}} (affect your user only) or {{ic|/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.
+Afterwards, the plugin will be enabled, and in the plugin configuration panel (File, Settings ..., Plugins pane, Input tab, select AMIDI-Plug (MIDI Player)) add the installed sound font files one at a time (Extension {{ic|.sf2}}) to the SoundFont dialog, they are located at {{ic|/usr/share/soundfonts/}}.
 == Tips and tricks ==
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 === Audtool ===
-Audacious is shipped with a powerful management tool called Audtool. Audtool could be used to retrieve information or to control the player.
+Audacious is shipped with a powerful management tool called Audtool which could be used to retrieve information or to control the player.
+For example, to retrieve the current song's title or artist, issue the following commands:
-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 ===
+There are also functions to control playback, manipulate the playlist, equalizer and main window. See {{man|1|audtool}} for the whole list of options.
+=== Winamp ===
-Install {{Pkg|mpg123}}.
+To add classic Winamp skins to Audacious, just copy them to either {{ic|~/.local/share/audacious/Skins/}} (user only) or {{ic|/usr/share/audacious/Skins/}} (system wide), then select them from the ''Skinned Interface'' tab in ''Preferences''. Alternatively drag the skin file directly into the list view of available skins.
 == Troubleshooting ==
-=== Audacious sets itself as the default file manager ===
+=== Audacious starts instead of file manager ===
 See [[File manager functionality#Directories are not opened in the file manager]].
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 == See also ==
-* [http://audacious-media-player.org/ Audacious official site]
+* [https://audacious-media-player.org/ Audacious official site]