Audacious 3.1 released
November 08, 2011Audacious 3.1 final has been released today:
Changes between 3.0 and 3.1-alpha1:
- New LADSPA host plugin
- Alarm plugin has been ported to GTK 3 and restored
- New "queue manager" window which shows the songs queued in the current playlist
- New plugin to convert from mono to stereo and vice versa
- Audacious can now run in "headless" mode, controlled by DBus clients such as audtool
- audtool can now query and set "stop after this song" option
- New option to delay loading song information until a song is played, reducing I/O
- Audio CD plugin now reads mixed data and audio CD's correctly
- Dockable plugin windows such as LyricWiki now have a sane default window size
- New configuration system, which does fewer disk writes and has a cleaner API
- Compiling Audacious on Windows now embeds an icon in the .exe file automatically
- Running Audacious on Windows no longer creates an "audacious" folder in My Documents
- PATH_MAX constant is no longer used in the code for compatibility with GNU Hurd
Changes between 3.1-alpha1 and 3.1-beta1:
- Visualization subsystem has been reworked to be more efficient and more accurate
- M3U playlists with the .m3u8 extension are now supported
Changes between 3.1-beta1 and 3.1-beta2:
- Two unmaintained plugins (moodbar and rocklight) are removed
- The OSS 4 output plugin now supports the FreeBSD implementation of OSS
- The OSS 3 output plugin is obsolete and no longer built by default
Changes between 3.1-beta2 and 3.1-beta3:
- Audacious does better at remaining responsive while connecting to internet streams
- The BS2B effect plugin now has some settings that the user can change
- The channel mixer plugin can now downmix some surround formats to stereo
