Music player Audacious 4.6 adds built-in file browser, Xwayland improvements, and more

Audacious 4.6 has been released as the latest version of this open source and lightweight audio player. This update introduces a new file browser plugin, a “Now Playing” plugin for macOS, and a “Port playback history” plugin targeting GTK users. These additions expand how users can manage and interact with media across platforms.

Addressing display configurations, Xwayland is now enabled solely for the Winamp interface, with users able to manage this via a new setting. Following this, playlist management sees useful changes: playlists can now be sorted by bitrate, and users have the option to reenact deletion confirmations for greater control.

Expanding audio format support, Audacious 4.6 can play Musepack SV8 files and now recognizes all AIFF extensions and corresponding MIME types. Users working from the terminal will appreciate new playlist export capabilities via the command-line tool audtool.

Building on metadata improvements, the player now reads file creation and modification dates and can extract ReplayGain information through the FFmpeg plugin for a wider range of audio files. Lyrics tags are supported for Opus, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC media files, reflecting the focus on music enrichment.

Additional enhancements include more shortcuts in the GTK and Qt interfaces for playlist navigation, support for album-switching hotkeys, and loading companion .m3u or .m3u8 playlists for subsong metadata with the Game Console Music Decoder.