Audacious 4.4.1 released

September 26, 2024

Download links:

audacious-4.4.1.tar.bz2 (624 KB)
audacious-plugins-4.4.1.tar.bz2 (1.8 MB)

New features and improvements:

Support titlebar dimming for Winamp skins also with GTK
Allow to never show playlist tabs also in GTK interface (#1409)
Improve controls responsiveness with the Sndio output plugin
Add Qt 6 support for the Qt Multimedia output plugin
Support many more MPRIS metadata fields
Include .adx as file extension for the FFmpeg plugin (#1466)

Bugs fixed:

Include patch version in SONAMEs again (#1408)
Fix writing tags into audio files on Windows (#1421)
Make drag and drop work with GTK on Wayland (#1423)
Fix build with GCC and Meson on macOS
Handle big-endian systems correctly with Meson
Fix excessive CPU usage with the Qt Multimedia output plugin
Enable scroll buttons for playlist tabs on macOS (#1455)

Other changes:

Lower GTK 3 version requirement from 3.22 to 3.18
Offer SHA256 checksum files for our release tarballs (#1432)
Make CDDB support optional for the Audio CD plugin (#1437)
Allow minimum speed of 0.25 for the Speed and Pitch plugin (#1447)
Prefer PulseAudio plugin over PipeWire plugin for better backwards compatibility
Specify application ID and icon name for PulseAudio
Update translations

Thanks to all the contributors and bug reporters.