Audacious 4.4 released
June 12, 2024Download links:
- audacious-4.4.tar.bz2 (621 KB)
- audacious-plugins-4.4.tar.bz2 (1.8 MB)
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
Changes since 4.4-beta1:
- Use X11/XWayland by default if available
- Prevent using Winamp interface on Wayland
- Install plugins on macOS as file instead of bundle (#1364)
- Improve Wayland support for GTK interface (#1369, #1388)
- Fix build with Qt 6.7.1 (#1393)
- Fix crash after a Qt interface could not be loaded (#1396)
- Plug memory leak for Opus files with embedded images
- Check for Qt SVG module at build time
- Include developer name in appdata file
- Update translations
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
- Meson is now the preferred way to build Audacious, so consider switching from Autotools
- 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:
- 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.
Thanks to all the contributors and bug reporters.
