-like interface running on
Ubuntu 8.04 11.10 Audacious contains built-in
gapless playback.
Default codec support •
MP3 using
libmpg123 •
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC and AAC+) •
Vorbis •
FLAC •
Opus •
Wavpack •
Shorten (SHN) •
Musepack • TTA (codec) •
Windows Media Audio (WMA) •
Apple Lossless (ALAC) • 150 different
module formats via
libopenmpt and
libmodplug • Several chiptune formats: AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, NSFE, SAP, SPC,
VGM, VGZ, VTX •
PlayStation Audio:
Portable Sound Format (PSF and PSF2) • Nintendo DS Sound Format: 2SF • Ad-lib chiptunes via AdPlug library • WAV formats provided by
libsndfile plug-in. •
MIDI via native OS synthesizer control or
FluidSynth. • CD Audio
Plug-ins Audacious owes a large portion of its functionality to
plug-ins, including all
codecs. More features are available via third-party plug-ins. Current versions of the Audacious core classify plug-ins as follows (some are low level and not user-visible at this time): •
Decoder plug-ins, which contain the actual codecs used for decoding content. •
Transport plug-ins, which are lowlevel and implemented by the VFS layer. •
General plug-ins, which provide user-added services to the player (such as sending tracks with
AudioScrobbler) •
Output plug-ins, which provide the audio system backend of the player. •
Visualization plug-ins, which provide visualizations based on
fast Fourier transforms of the wave data. •
Effect plug-ins, which provide various sound processing on the decoded audio stream •
Container plug-ins, which provide support for playlists and other similar structures. •
Lowlevel plug-ins, which provide miscellaneous services to the player core and are not categorized into any of the other plug-ins. • Output plug-ins: • •
PulseAudio output •
OSS4 output •
ALSA output • Sndio output •
SDL output • FileWriter plug-in – no sound is played, the output is instead redirected into a new file: this plug-in supports the output file formats:
WAV,
mp3,
Ogg Vorbis and
FLAC, it can be used to transcode a file and also to
rip a CD •
JACK output •
PipeWire output
Skins Audacious has full support for
Winamp 2 skins, and as of version 1.2, some free-form skinning is possible. Winamp .wsz skin files, a type of Zip archive, can be used directly, or can be unarchived to individual directories. The program can use Windows Bitmap (.bmp) graphics from the Winamp archive, although native skins for Linux are usually rendered in
Portable Network Graphics (.png) format. Audacious 1.x allows the user to adjust the RGB color balance of any skin, effectively making a basic white skin equivalent to a host of colorized skins without editing them manually.
Clients Audacious is intended to be a standalone media player not a server (unlike XMMS2), though it accepts connections from client software, such as
Conky. Connection to Audacious for remote control can be done over plain
DBus, by using an
MPRIS-compatible client, or using the official Audtool utility created just for this purpose. == See also ==