Versie 3.8 van Audacious is uitgekomen. Audacious is een lichtgewicht en opensource-muziekspeler en in zekere zin de opvolger van xmms. Het programma kan audio-cd's afspelen of muziekbestanden op de computer, maar ook direct streamen van internet. Het heeft een equalizer aan boord en kan overweg met Winamp-skins. Downloads zijn beschikbaar voor Windows en verschillende Linux-distributies. De belangrijkste verbeteringen die in versie 3.8 zijn aangebracht zijn hieronder voor je op een rijtje gezet.
What’s new
With this version, it is finally possible to run multiple instances of Audacious (#635). Instances are numbered and can be started withaudacious -2
,audacious -3
, and so on; once running, they can be controlled withaudtool -2 <command>
,audtool -3 <command>
, and so on. Each instance remembers its own configuration.
Support for Windows has been improved:New audtool commands have been added:
- There is a new installer using NSIS, based on work by Carlo Bramini (#342).
- The user interface handles high-resolution displays better and no longer appears blurred due to scaling.
- Audio output now uses the native waveOut API, allowing higher bit depths, lower latency, and better integration with the system volume control.
Cuesheet support is more seamless, with the following fixes:
- Enable/disable stream recording (#594)
- Enable/disable any plugin: effects, visualizations, etc. (#638)
Róbert Cernanský contributed a new plugin to browse music on an Ampache server. Most of the implementation resides in a separate support library, available here.
- More robust logic to prevent adding duplicate entries (#630)
- Display artist correctly for cuesheets with only a single
PERFORMER
line (#644)- Add audio files normally if cuesheet support is disabled (#650)
- Track lengths correctly account for pregap with libcue 2.0 or later (#651)
Other new features:Existing features ported to the Qt interface:
- Folders can be added from various URI protocols (
ftp
,mtp
, etc.) via GIO (#503)- Audio effects and equalization can optionally be applied to a stream recording (#592)
- Search results can be added to the playlist using drag and drop (#621)
- Option to display MMM:SS instead of H:MM:SS (#631)
- Automatic selection of the best available output bit depth
- Album artist support for FLAC and Vorbis files (read-write)
- Support for the freedesktop.org startup notification protocol
- Scrobbler setup dialog (#656)
- Context (right-click) menu in the playlist
- Copy-and-paste of playlist entries
- “Open Containing Folder” command
- Desktop notifications and file deletion (via the appropriate plugins)
- Access to the full set of FileWriter options
