Audacious 3.9 released
August 19, 2017Audacious 3.9 has been released. Download it here.
Development has slowed during the summer months, and as a result this release is a little overdue. Many of the new features, such as the much-needed updates to the Qt UI, have been ripening in Git for a few months now.
A summary of the new features is given below:
Qt UI enhancements
- More configurable main window, with new View menu and additional options in Settings (#657)
- Full drag-and-drop capability for playlist entries
- Configurable playlist columns (add, remove, resize, and rearrange)
- New controls for stream recording
- Improved playlist search bar, which hides until Control+F is pressed, matches results more intelligently, and even mimics the keyboard controls of the old 'Jump to Song' dialog
- Integrated menu items and keyboard shortcuts for the Playlist Manager and Search Tool
- More detailed yet unobtrusive reporting of errors via the status bar
- Visual indication when 'Stop After This Song' is active, by making the stop button a toggle
- Better high-DPI support and many other cosmetic fixes
Usability improvements
- A Comments column can be displayed in the playlist, and used to sort it (#560)
- Bold, italics, and capitals highlight different types of results in the GTK+ version of the Search Tool (#701)
- The Record button is hidden to prevent accidental usage until recording is enabled in Settings (#703)
- Recording settings can be changed without immediately starting to record the currently playing stream
- The unhelpful "Unknown playback error" message has been removed
Advanced features
audtoolgains better support for multiple playlists with the--select-displayedand--select-playingcommands (#609)- Recursive adding of folders specified in M3U playlists (#731)
- Direct output to ALSA devices that require packed 24-bit audio
- Automatic switching between track and album ReplayGain modes when shuffle is enabled/disabled
- Option in Speed and Pitch effect to adjust both parameters in lockstep, thereby preventing distortion
Under the hood
- Conversion of a substantial amount of C-like code to safer C++ practices
- For the Windows build, an update to the newer MinGW-w64 toolchain (still 32-bit)
Bugs fixed since 3.8.2
- 'Critical error' message dialogs displayed by Windows are inhibited (#712)
- Scrobbler URLs are no longer presented in a useless shortened form (#716)
album-artistwas missing from the list of available custom title formats and has been added (#722)- Error and progress dialogs were missing and have been added in the Qt version of the skinned UI
- A startup notification is now sent when Audacious is started with only the status icon visible
