Release of the lightweight music player Audacious 4.5 has been announced, which branched off from the Beep Media Player (BMP) project, a fork of the classic XMMS player. The release comes with two user interfaces: based on GTK and Qt. Ready builds will soon be prepared for various Linux distributions (snap, flatpak, PPA) and for Windows.
Key features of Audacious 4.5:
- The GTK-based builds include a plugin for visualizing volume (VU Meter).
- A plugin for viewing playback history has been added (currently available only in the Qt version).
- Functionality parity of the 'Jump to Song' dialog has been ensured in both Qt and GTK versions.
- Support for loading album artist tags from APEv2 format metadata has been added.
- For Opus format files, support for tags with information for volume normalization (ReplayGain) has been restored.
- The multimedia output plugin has been improved. server PipeWire.
- Support for extracting lyrics from the service lrclib.net has been added.
- A dark theme mode is now available based on the corresponding GNOME settings.
- Winamp skins now feature the rendering of toggle switch states.
- Additional skins Glare and Winamp 2.9 have been included.
- A setting for the action when clicking the middle mouse button on the status icon has been added.
- The unsupported experimental Moonstone plugin has been removed.
- When importing a playlist, a new list is created in a separate tab instead of overwriting the current one.
- AAC file support has been announced in the FFmpeg plugin.
- An information dialog has been implemented in the MPRIS plugin.
- On systems with PipeWire and PulseAudio support, the PipeWire plugin is enabled by default.
- The SDL plugin has added output support through the SDL3 library. Support for SDL1 has been discontinued.
- Icons in the configurator have been changed.
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