Audacious 3.10 released

August 08, 2018

Well, here we are nearly a year later, and Audacious 4.0 (with a fully feature-complete Qt UI) still isn't a reality. Never fear, we haven't been totally idle. With the usual smattering of new features and a longer-than-usual list of bug fixes, we are proud to present Audacious 3.10, code-named "Not Quite There Yet".

Download it here.

You may also notice that we finally have HTTPS enabled site-wide. Many thanks to Michał Lipski for getting this working!

New features (general)

Shuffle history is remembered at exit to avoid repeating songs (#611)
Exported M3U and PLS playlists now use relative paths by default (#647)
Recursively adding subfolders to the playlist is now optional (#732)
The URL history shown in the Add/Open URL dialogs can be cleared (#733)
Toolbar buttons in the GTK UI now show tooltip hints (#750)
The adplug input plugin has a new settings window (#759)
The Search Tool can be configured to scan for new files at startup (#796)
The number of results shown in the Search Tool is now configurable
The Delete Files plugin is clearer about which files will be deleted
Icons from the desktop theme are used more consistently
Scalable icons are now used on Windows for better high-DPI support
The bottom info bar now matches the color tone of dark themes
The soxr resampler has some new, more detailed settings

Qt UI improvements (new/ported features and bug fixes)

"audacious -m" now raises the main window as expected (#767)
The number pad Enter key now starts playback as expected (#771)
The Escape key can be used to return to the currently playing playlist (#778)
Fixed the row height of the playlist view changing unexpectedly (#792)
Volume can be changed using the mouse wheel on the system tray icon (#803)
Added Playlist Import/Export dialog windows
Added a song info tooltip to the playlist and system tray icon
Added a "Play" icon to the tab of the currently playing playlist
Added a label showing file path/URI to the song info window
URI and tag values in the song info window can be copied to the clipboard
Added missing "Search Library" command in the Winamp UI (Qt version)
Added font formatting to improve readability in the Search Tool
Fixed a build error (QStaticText-related) with Qt 5.10
Fixed Audacious exiting when the settings window is closed
Fixed font preferences not being respected in a couple of places
Fixed playlist position sometimes not updating when the song changes
The info bar correctly changes color when the theme changes

New contributer René Bertin helped out with a few of these. (Thanks!)

Bugs fixed since Audacious 3.9

Non-existent files are no longer skipped when loading a playlist (#746)
Fixed an issue when trying to seek beyond the end of a WAV file (#756)
The default ReplayGain amplification for untagged files works again (#762)
Fixed a crash when changing UI with the Ampache plugin enabled (#763)
Fixed a crash on exit when using the Winamp UI and the Ampache plugin (#764)
Fixed a warning about --datarootdir when running ./configure (#770)
Reduced excessive file I/O when loading playlists (#774)
Fixed repeated error messages when playing a short playlist on repeat (#776)
PulseAudio users can now change the volume without a song playing (#783)
Fixed an error preventing FLAC tags from being updated (#789)
Added .m4v extension to the whitelist so that audio can be played (#791)
Several fixes to CoreAudio output on Mac OS (contributed by René Bertin)
Fixed a crash at exit when running under Mac OS
Fixed the WM_CLASS property not being set correctly on FreeBSD
Fixed a rare crash triggered by a specific sequence of playlist edits
Fixed incorrect "Recording On/Off" notifications in the Winamp UI
Fixed an error in the MPRIS 2 server affecting the playerctl client

Bugs fixed since Audacious 3.10-beta1

Fixed a freeze when saving the tag of the currently playing song while paused (#806)
Fixed a crash when loading a cuesheet with an unsupported character encoding (#810)

Other changes

The GNOME Shortcuts plugin, which has been broken since GNOME 3.26, is gone (#808)
The system version of the AdPlug library is now used (if installed)
Audacious no longer registers as an inode/directory MIME type handler

GTK+ 3.x support is also gone for real in this release. A -gtk3 branch still exists in GitHub, but it's not regularly updated. We barely have the resources to maintain support for two different toolkits, let alone three. Use Qt 5 if GTK+ 2.x is too "outdated" (i.e. reliable) for your liking.