Audacious - Install Howto

Audacious

If you are looking for alternative linux music player besides from XMMS and Amarok, here's another music player that is making it from linux world as well.

Audacious site:
Audacious is a free software media player for POSIX standards compliant based systems. It is a fork of Beep Media Player 0.9.7.1. William "nenolod" Pitcock decided to fork BMP after the original development team announced that they were stopping development, in order to create a next-gen version, BMPx.

The reasons for the fork were purely technical. There were some quirks in Beep Media Player that had annoyed users, such as the ID3v2 tag handling, which had been reported as "buggy" by some users. The developers also had their own ideas about how a player should be designed, which they wanted to try in a production environment. Besides, Beep Media Player allegedly lacked functionalities that were considered useful for people who did streaming, such as support for an XMMS-like "songchange plugin".

Audacious has a lot of features, you can check them out here.

Audacious supports several plugins named below:

* Decoder plugins, which contain the actual codecs used for decoding content.
* Transport plugins, which are lowlevel and implemented by the VFS layer.
* General plugins, which provide user-added services to the player (such as sending tracks with AudioScrobbler)
* Output plugins, which provide the audio system backend of the player.
* Visualization plugins, which provide visualizations based on FFT fourier transforms of the wave data.
* Effect plugins, which provide various sound processing on the decoded audio stream
* Container plugins, which provide support for playlists and other similar structures.
* Lowlevel plugins, which provide miscellaneous services to the player core and are not categorized into any of the other plugins.

The long list of audacious music player plugins are listed here.


Here's how to install Audacious music player
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# yum install audacious audacious-plugins-nonfree-*
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Binary Launch
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Alt+F2, audacious


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