Software update: Audacious 4.3

Version 4.3 of Audacious has been released. Audacious is a lightweight and open source music player and in a way the successor to xmms. The program can play audio CDs or music files on the computer, as well as stream them directly from the Internet. It has an equalizer on board and can handle Winamp skins. Downloads are available for Windows and several Linux distributions. The release notes for this release look like this:

New plugins and features:

• Add PipeWire output plugin
• Add native Opus decoder plugin
• Support GTK3 again (optional, default is GTK2)
• Support of Qt 6 is mature (optional, default is Qt 5)
• Meson support is feature complete now and tested on all main platforms, so consider switching to this build system (Autotools is still supported though)
• Allow copying file path in song info dialog (#1174)
• Support Ogg FLAC audio streams (#1176)
• Support reading embedded lyrics tags (#1192)
• Account for album artist in Search Tool (#1193)
• Support new song length database format in SID plugin
• Support Publisher and Catalog Number tags
• Add file filter to Export Playlist file dialog

Bugs fixed since 4.2:

• Show correct song length for audio streams (#1179)
• Correctly handle libflac built without Ogg FLAC support (#1181)
• Increased M3U file size limit from 16 MB to 256 MB (#1194)
• Preserve existing FLAC Vorbis comments (#1202)

Improvements since 4.3-beta1:

• Updated translations, with Romanian as new supported language
• Ctrl+F in the Qt interface now also searches in file names (#1204)
• Prevent warning by FFmpeg about discarded samples when opening files

Other changes:

• Removed alarm plugin due to serious bugs (#793)