Audacious 4.4-beta1 released

May 04, 2024

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New plugins and features:

Add Background Music plugin which makes the sound equally loud within and between tracks, contributed by Michel Fleur
Restore Lyrics plugin for GTK
Add Disc Number support (#739)
Read ReplayGain values in Opus files from R128 tags (#1138)
Allow to disable column header sorting (#1273)
Mute/unmute with middle mouse click on volume button (#1353)
Add new lyrics provider for chartlyrics.com (#1357)
Use a linear volume scale for PipeWire (#1358)
Handle Shift-Enter shortcut to queue track in Jump-to-Song dialog
Offer more configuration options for the Crossfade effect plugin
Show a tooltip for the Qt status icon plugin
Support the Scrobbler (Last.fm) plugin also on macOS and Windows
Allow to run custom commands with the Song Change plugin when a song is stopped
Support building Audacious on Cygwin with Meson

Bugs fixed since 4.3:

Make use of Windows' root certificate store to validate HTTPS certificates (#1248)
Provide the full range for libopenmpt's stereo separation (#1359)
Handle MP3 files with multiple image tags correctly (#1360)
Remove French prefix which lyrics.ovh embeds into all their lyrics
Avoid needless resampling in the PipeWire output plugin
Fix loading of local or cached lyrics, stored as .lrc files
Make Scrobbler plugin work again by parsing Last.fm responses properly
Don't treat MPG123_NEW_FORMAT as error when seeking in MP3 files
Avoid crash when opening corrupted AAC files
Fix build with C++20 standard

Other changes:

Qt 6 and GTK 3 are now used by default, Qt 5 and GTK 2 support can still be enabled at build time though
GTK support is no longer considered legacy
Switch to x86-64 for Windows build
Various minor UI improvements
Our forum and bug tracker were migrated from Redmine to GitHub (see also the announcement)
Releases are published on GitHub now, based on the corresponding Git tag. Tarballs created by us will still be available via https://distfiles.audacious-media-player.org, as before.

Known issues:

When building Audacious with autotools on macOS, plugins are not found or loaded (#1364). Please use Meson instead as solution.
Using the Winamp interface on Wayland is not supported due to limitations in Wayland regarding application-side window positioning (see also #common problems). We suggest to run Audacious via XWayland therefore.