Audacious
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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 typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- Xfce
Features
Highlights All activities
Audacious News & Activities
Recent News
- Paul published news article about Audacious
Recent activities
- dimchkin added Winamp-like as a feature to Audacious
- dimchkin added Support for MIDI as a feature to Audacious
- dimchkin liked Audacious
Eric Soltys added Audacious as alternative to Luminous Music Player
Azrul added Audacious as alternative to Aideo Music Player
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Lastly, the Linux operating systems (or distros) are at the end of the list because no matter which you choose, the majority of these apps can be installed on Windows, and can certainly be installed on any of the distros.
Linux
Daily used app by me.
Debian Elementary XFCE: Best Apps for a balanced system
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Official Links
Install from the command line
brew install audaciousflatpak install flathub org.atheme.audacious
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Audacious teamLicensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
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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.