Software Update: Audacious 4.2

Version 4.2 of Audacious has been released. Audacious is a lightweight and open source music player and, in a sense, its successor 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 release notes for this release are as follows:

New and improved features:

• Add a built-in dark theme using Qt’s Fusion style (default on Windows)
• Add a dark theme-friendly variant of the built-in fallback icons, and make both built-in icon sets user-selectable
• Add partial support for Ogg FLAC streams (#1075thanks Jim Turner)
• Preselect the filename of an imported playlist when exporting it again (#1128)
• Automatically set the title of an imported playlist based on the filename (#1129)
• Add a Search and Select dialog to the Winamp interface in Qt mode (#1138)
• Add a Jump to Song dialog to the Winamp interface in Qt mode (thanks Steve Storey)
• Add formatter syntax to allow truncating title strings (thanks iDarkTemplar)

Bug fixed since 4.1:

• Fix some fluid synth settings not working (#1083)
• Add checks to prevent Open Containing Folder from being abused to open other types of file (#1090)
• Fix a crash in the bundled Game_Music_Emu libraries SNES emulation (#1135)
• Fix the Winamp interface not minimizing from the Windows taskbar (#1136)
• Fix .mkv files being skipped when opening a folder (#1137)
• Prevent the Qt interface from popping up multiple error dialogs (#1147)

Bugs fixed since 4.2-beta1:

• Don’t switch to FileWriter output when no other outputs are available (#1149)
• Update for compatibility with FFmpeg 5.0 (#1159)
• Fix hang when reaching the end of some files using FFmpeg (#1156)
• Fix playlist scrolling unexpectedly in Winamp interface (#1157)
• Prevent crash in 3rd-party QtPBFImagePlugin when using Winamp interface (#1166)