New release: Audacious 3.4

June 28, 2013

Audacious 3.4 is an incremental improvement, adding a number of requested features while retaining binary API compatibility with plugins built for version 3.3.

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audacious-3.4.tar.bz2 (460 KB)
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Changes since 3.4-beta1

For lovers of eye candy, there is a new 3D frequency spectrum visualizer, ported from XMMS by Christophe Budé.
Desktop notifications can be customized to include action buttons and/or remain visible for the length of the song.
The new scrobbler plugin will now send "now playing" information to Last.fm.
The FFmpeg decoding backend has been updated to fix an "unsupported audio format" error.

Changes since 3.4-alpha1

When search terms are too generic, the search tool now shows the first 100 results instead of showing no results as in previous versions.
The old scrobbler plugin is no longer included. Should you encounter a problem with the new scrobbler, please report it.
The ModPlug plugin has a new preferences window, based on a contribution by Vladimir Strakh.
The SID plugin now requires libsidplayfp. The older sidplay1 and sidplay2 libraries are no longer supported.
An alternative sample rate converter plugin, using libsoxr, has been added.

General changes since 3.3

A new scrobbler plugin, using Last.fm’s Scrobbling 2.0 API, has been contributed by “Pitxyoki.”
audtool can seek with sub-second precision (#95).
Album art fetching is done in the background so that it will not make the UI unresponsive. URI schemes other than file:// are no longer blacklisted (#177).
A new command-line option (--quit-after-play) makes the player exit automatically when finished playing (#230).
A global hotkey can be configured to enable/disable the “stop after current song” option (#232).

New commands available in the GTK interface

Automatically remove duplicate entries from a playlist (#210)
Repeat only a portion of a song (“A-to-B repeat”) (#220)
Show remaining instead of elapsed time (#237)
Sort playlist entries by song length (#244)
Sort, randomize, and reverse the order of selected playlist entries only

Other GTK interface improvements

Playlist columns can be resized (#19). This has been one of the most frequently (and vehemently) requested features. However, it requires GTK+ 3.8 or later to work 100% correctly.

Keyboard focus in the playlist is handled differently, fixing some cases where it was not updated correctly when the playlist was edited (#191).

The info bar visualization is automatically disabled when the player is minimized to the system tray in order to reduce CPU usage.