On September 26, three months after the release of version 4.4.0 (which by default transitioned to Qt 6 and GTK 4, added the Background Music plugin, restored the Lyrics plugin for displaying song texts in the GTK interface, included support for the Disc Number tag, and the PipeWire linear volume slider), the corrective release 4.4.1 of the music player took place. Audacious, continuing the development of XMMS, with support for a plugin system and Winamp-compatible skins.
A graphical interface is available on GTK and Qt; it can also operate without a GUI (headless mode). The application is available on GNU/Linux, *BSD, macOS, and Windows platforms.

You can join the development of the player at GitHub. Currently, the code is provided under the BSD-2-Clauselicense. The project is written in C++ (C++17 standard).

New features and improvements:

• the support for fading the window title for Winamp skins is now also implemented for GTK;
• a setting to disable the display of playlist tabs has been implemented for the GTK interface (#1409);
• improved responsiveness of controls for the audio output plugin using the Sndio library;
• added support for Qt 6 for the audio output plugin using Qt Multimedia;
• support for more MPRIS metadata fields;
• support for the .adx file extension has been added for the FFmpeg plugin (#1466).

Fixed bugs:

• patch versions are again included in shared file names (SONAMEs), for example, libaudcore.so.5.5.0 instead of libaudcore.so.5.5. (#1408);
• fixed tag writing to audio files in Windows (#1421);
• drag-and-drop has been implemented for GTK on Wayland (#1423);
• fixed build issues with GCC and Meson on macOS;
• improved detection of big-endian systems when using Meson;
• fixed increased CPU usage by the audio output plugin (Qt Multimedia);
• scroll buttons have been added for playlist tabs on macOS (#1455).

Other changes:

• the required version of GTK has been lowered from 3.22 to 3.18;
• SHA256 checksums have been published for the official release tarballs (#1432);
• CDDB support has been made optional in the 'Audio CD' plugin (#1437);
• the minimum playback speed has been lowered to 0.25 for the 'Speed and Pitch' plugin (#1447);
• the PulseAudio plugin will be preferred over PipeWire for better backward compatibility;
• 'application ID' and icon have been assigned for PulseAudio;
• translations have been updated.

Source: linux.org.ru