Audacious 4.5-beta1 released
June 01, 2025Download links:
- audacious-4.5-beta1.tar.bz2 (626 KB)
- audacious-plugins-4.5-beta1.tar.bz2 (1.8 MB)
New plugins and features:
- Provide VU Meter plugin also for GTK build
- Add new Playback History plugin (Qt only for now)
- Achieve feature parity for Jump to Song dialog (Qt vs. GTK)
- Read color scheme from settings portal (#1469)
- Support Album Artist tag in APE header (#1428)
- Improve probing of small audio files (#1581)
- Support outdated ReplayGain tags again in Opus files (#1500)
- Improve PipeWire output plugin (#1401)
- Allow fetching lyrics from lrclib.net (#1558)
- Render Clutterbar in several Winamp skins (#1513)
- Distribute additional skins by default: Glare, Winamp 2.9
- Add setting for middle click action in Status Icon plugin (#1228)
Bugs fixed since 4.4:
- Plug massive memory leaks in Jump to Song dialog (Qt)
- Make Blur Scope GTK plugin work on Wayland
- Prevent buffer overflow (#1541)
- Work around Qt 6 icon search path bug (#1533)
- Prefer OpenMPT plugin for S3M files (#1566)
- Remove .m4v from supported file extensions (#1545)
- Remove dual play icon in default skin (#1349)
- Fix build with MacPorts (#1528)
- Fix build on Cygwin
Other changes:
- Remove unmaintained and experimental Moonstone plugin (#1550)
- Pad track number with leading zero in FileWriter plugin (#1222)
- Create new playlist when importing one (#1508)
- Declare support for AAC files in FFmpeg plugin (#1583)
- Update build files for Autotools (#1458)
- Provide info dialog for MPRIS plugin (#1595)
- Prefer PipeWire plugin over PulseAudio if available
- Support also SDL3 for SDL output plugin, drop SDL1 support
- Specify supported MIME type for SID files
- Handle dock activation on macOS
- Change icons in preferences window
Thanks to all the contributors and bug reporters.