Audacious
Lightweight open-source audio player for Unix-like platforms focused on high sound quality, extensive codec support, playlist handling, Internet radio, plugins, Winamp-style skins, cue sheets, metadata display, effects, equalizer, and efficient resource usage.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- Xfce
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Create Playlist
- Windows Compatible
- Music Library
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Playlists management
- 3D visualization
- Ad-free
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler- Dark Mode
- Supports audio media keys
- Internet Radio
- No Tracking
- Global hotkey
- Queued Operations
- Works Offline
- Lossless Audio
- Portable
- Gapless Playback
- Crossfading
- Skinnable
- Dynamic Range Compressor
- Parametric Equalizer
- Automatic Lyrics Finder
- Drag and Drop
- Integrated Codecs
Audacious News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- Creative_joe liked Audacious
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What is Audacious?
Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. There is also support for several visual styles from Winamp. Its advanced audio playback engine is considerably more powerful than GStreamer. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS.
Audacious information
Developed by
Audacious teamLicensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.7Alternatives
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- Spanish
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- Galician
- Hungarian
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Audio & Music, Video & MoviesGitHub repository
- 1,099 Stars
- 135 Forks
- 144 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
I've been using Audacious as a replacement for Winamp for a couple of months now since i moved from Windows 7 to Fedora 16 and i must say i like it. It plays every MP3, OGG or XM file i throw at it (non-free MP3 codecs required) and can be fully skinned to look exactly like Winamp. Don't be fooled though, it's not Winamp! Some of the plugins are good extensions to Audacious of which i couldn't find for Winamp.
I've used Amarok, Totem and even VLC in the past but -being used to Winamp and all- Audacious has my vote for best audio player on GNU/Linux systems.
It's a good player with sane default interface and good amount of extra features. On Windows there may be better options since it still uses WaveOut instead of DirectSound or WASAPI for output. It's an old method that is less stable and more CPU-intensive.
I tried to rekindle my love for Winamp, for it's simple UI and lightweight install, but I just couldn't given all the recent noise with its code.
Anyway. For me, Audacious is the spiritual successor.
What I like about it:
My wishlist for improvements:
Otherwise, this is my favourite audio player on Windows.
so easy to use, and support many kind of format, very much easy to use. very very friendly . hope you can give a try.
I like this app low resource needed, can play all audio files perfectly and simple interface a good alternative for winamp, aimp and foobar
For me the best, -1 not in appStore
I have used Audacious for a long time on my GNU/Linux computers, but shortly I installed it under Windows, and it works just fine there, too.