Software Update: Audacious 3.7 Beta 1

The first beta release of Audacious version 3.7 has been released. Audacious is a lightweight and open source music player and in a way the successor of xmms. The program can play audio CDs or music files on the computer, as well as stream directly from the Internet. It has an equalizer on board and can handle Winamp skins. Downloads are available for Windows and various Linux distributions. The changelog for this release can be found below.

New features

• Playlists can be shuffled by whole albums rather than single tracks.
• Internet streams can be recorded while playing via a simple record button (GTK+ only).
• The playlist export window displays supported formats in a drop-down list (GTK+ only).
• A new, unified window has been added for managing equalizer presets (GTK+ only).
• The user interface automatically adjusts to be more usable on high-resolution screens (GTK+ only).
• An “Edit Lyrics” option has been added to the LyricWiki plugin, which opens the edit page for the current song.
• Guessing of missing tag fields can be disabled (#513).
• Decoding and playback of standard input is possible with eg echo file.mp3 | audacious –

Qt interface improvements

The Qt interface can be customized with several new appearance settings. Many other small fixes and improvements have been made, such as a visualizer in the info bar, to bring the interface closer to feature-parity with the GTK+ interface.

In addition, the following plugins have been ported to Qt:

• Winamp Classic Interface
• Playlist Manager
• Search Tool
• Status Icon

Bugs fixed since Audacious 3.6.2

• Replay Gain information is read correctly from ID3v2.3 tags (#280).
• “Open Containing Folder” works on Microsoft Windows (#540).
• Internet streams no longer show a negative remaining time (#546).
• With JACK output, monaural streams are played to both speakers (#549).
• Older Winamp skins without eq_ex.bmp are loaded correctly (#555).
• Absolute file paths using legacy character sets are loaded correctly from M3U playlists (#568).
• Winamp skins with undersized bitmaps are displayed correctly (no more gray blocks).

Other changes

• The latest version of libguess is included to allow character set detection on all systems.
• In dual GTK and Qt builds, incompatible plugins are hidden to avoid confusion.
• AdPlug has been updated to version 2.2.1 (#70). libbinio 1.4 is also included.
• Most audtool commands now apply to the playlist which is playing, even if it is in the background (#557).
• The crossfade effect handles songs of different sample rates more gracefully (no warning message). However, resampling is still recommended to avoid clicks between songs.