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The Audacious source is split into two packages. The “audacious” package needs to be installed before “audacious-plugins”. In each package, there is a file named INSTALL with further instructions for compiling and installing. (These instructions are not very helpful at the moment but will be improved as we have time.)

Most users should download the current stable release. Users of older systems without GTK+ 3.x installed should download the legacy 3.2.4 release.

Testing releases are likely to have problems and may not work at all. If you do install a testing release, please report any problems you find.

Current stable release: 3.3.4 (February 3, 2013)

Current testing release: 3.4-beta2 (May 31, 2013)

Legacy release: 3.2.4 (June 29, 2012)

Older releases are available here.

Linux

Most Linux distributions provide Audacious in their package repositories. Please note that these packages may be out of date.

Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint

Users of Debian and its derivatives can install Audacious with apt-get:

# apt-get install audacious

Note that the versions of Audacious available in Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS releases tend to be rather out of date. Web Upd8 maintains a PPA with newer versions for Ubuntu users.

Fedora

Fedora users can install Audacious using yum:

# yum install audacious

However, the “audacious-plugins” package distributed by Fedora is lacking important plugins; most notably, the MP3 decoder plugin. The missing plugins can be installed by enabling the RPM Fusion repositories and running:

# yum install audacious-plugins-freeworld

Arch Linux

Audacious can be installed in Arch Linux using pacman:

# pacman -S audacious

Some plugins may fail to load unless all optional dependencies of the “audacious” package are satisfied. The ArchWiki has additional information about running Audacious on Arch Linux.

Gentoo

Gentoo includes Audacious in its portage tree, as media-sound/audacious. You can install the Gentoo ebuilds using emerge:

# emerge media-sound/audacious

Please note that you may need to use the testing branch to get the latest packaging. Have a look at the Gentoo documentation for more details.

Microsoft Windows

Instructions for installing Audacious from source in Windows (XP and later) can be found in the “audacious” source package under contrib/win32/. However, installation from source is a time-consuming process because of the number of third-party libraries that must first be downloaded and installed. For your convenience, we provide a .zip file containing binaries of Audacious and its plugins along with these libraries:

After unzipping this file, simply navigate to the newly created “bin” folder and run audacious.exe. No other installation steps are required.

Note: An updated version of audacious-3.3.4-win32.zip has been uploaded as of June 1, 2013. The previous version of the .zip file contained a preliminary build of Audacious 3.3.4 in which the version number had not been updated (the “About” window still showed “Audacious 3.3.3”).

Licensing notice

This .zip file contains binaries of third-party software (listed in the file README.txt) whose source code is freely available on the Internet. Our intent in distributing these binaries is in no way to restrict access to the source code but simply to make life easier for those wishing to run Audacious on Microsoft Windows. If any of the authors of this software do not wish their work distributed in this way, please contact John Lindgren at the email address listed in README.txt.