Audacious (software)

Audacious (English " bold " for ) and Audacious Media Player ( " audacious media player " ) is a free audio player. The software is primarily developed for Unix-like operating systems, but since version 2.5, there is also a port for Windows.

History of development

The software was split in 2005 by William " nenolod " Pitcock from version 0.9.7.1 of Beep Media Player (BMP), whose development came to a standstill. BMP in turn was a spin-off of the X Multimedia System ( XMMS ), which was also no longer maintained by its developers, but in the meantime continue with XMMS2 in a new version. The Audacious development team was able to with the priorities set for XMMS2 not arrange, and therefore decided to develop its own audio player. Originally motto was, " the highest -quality audio reproduction allow, similar to the Windows software foobar2000, but with the look of Winamp ".

Objectives

Like its predecessor, Audacious is based primarily on the media player Winamp, which found widespread use in the Windows world. Only the add Come in later versions of Winamp support for videos is rigorously excluded from the developers, because they wanted to focus on a resource -friendly audio player.

Audacious has two GUIs. The classic version was acquired by BMP and is ultimately a clone of Winamp. This is also a "Classic skins " of Winamp can be loaded. The second surface is implemented with GTK and places less emphasis on design than on the functionality. Was the BMP surface for a long time the standard of Audacious, the developers focus on the GTK version since version 2.4.0.

Technical

Audacious has a plug- in interface, which makes the program modular. There are four visible for the user plug-in categories:

Many of the available plug-ins are on the official website summarized in a separate package available, its use is recommended. Since then, a large share of the functionality of Audacious on plug-ins, it is possible for the user to quickly adapt the program to their personal needs. Native of the software from the house in a position different sound architectures ( ALSA, PulseAudio, OSS ... ) is to use. Other typical features such as streaming capability (eg Internet radio), creating playlists or the subsequent fine-tuning of the sound with the equalizer are also available. Audacious can be found in the repositories of most Linux distributions.