Audacious
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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.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- Xfce
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Audio & Music, Video & MoviesGitHub repository
- 978 Stars
- 122 Forks
- 113 Open Issues
- Updated Apr 4, 2025
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.
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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.