{"id":4729,"date":"2015-03-02T09:03:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4729"},"modified":"2015-03-02T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:04:52","slug":"install-audacious-3-6-qt-ubuntu-1404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/install-audacious-3-6-qt-ubuntu-1404\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Audacious 3.6 (New Qt UI) in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/audacious-icon1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/audacious-icon1.png\" alt=\"Audacious Audio Player\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/audacious-icon1.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/audacious-icon1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Audacious player, a descendant of XMMS, has reached the 3.6 release at the end of February, which brings the new Qt-based user interface.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This Qt 5 based UI can be installed alongside the existing GTK+ and Winamp Classic interfaces. But is not yet as feature-rich as the existing interfaces, it will be the basis of a Mac OS X port of Audacious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/audacious-3.6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/audacious-3.6.jpg\" alt=\"audacious 3.6 Qt and\/or GTK2 interface\" width=\"580\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/audacious-3.6.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/audacious-3.6-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/audacious-winamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/audacious-winamp.jpg\" alt=\"Audacious 3.6 Winamp interface\" width=\"580\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/audacious-winamp.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/audacious-winamp-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audacious 3.6 switches back to GTK2 by default. It can still be built with GTK3 if desired, but GTK2 is recommended for any desktop environment other than GNOME 3.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some other (requested) features in the 3.6 release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The source code has been converted from C99 to C++11.<\/li>\n<li>Audacious can now be built as a headless music player \u201cdaemon\u201d with no GTK+ dependency.<\/li>\n<li>playback now resumes in a paused state upon startup, so that you can press play to continue from where you left off. If desired<\/li>\n<li>It is now possible to sort a playlist by genre.<\/li>\n<li>A new \u201cOpen Containing Folder\u201d command has been added to the GTK+ interface.<\/li>\n<li>new effect plugin to remove leading and trailing silence in any song file.<\/li>\n<li>New controls in the song information dialog<\/li>\n<li>Support for the SID song lengths database has been restored.<\/li>\n<li>Double-size scaling of Winamp skins<\/li>\n<li>Searching by genre in the search tool plugin<\/li>\n<li>Support for \u201calbum artist\u201d in song tags<\/li>\n<li>Adjustable HTTP buffer size<\/li>\n<li>See <a href=\"http:\/\/audacious-media-player.org\/news\/32-audacious-3-6-released\" title=\"Audacious 3.6 release note\" target=\"_blank\">the release note<\/a> for more features as well as bug fixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><u>How to Install Audacious 3.6 in Ubuntu:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Webupd8 Team is maintaining a PPA with audacious packages for Ubuntu users, but the 3.6 release is not included at the moment (Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~nilarimogard\/+archive\/ubuntu\/webupd8\" title=\"Webupd8 PPA\" target=\"_blank\">PPA page<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Once it&#8217;s available in the PPA, <u>open terminal<\/u> from the Dash\/Menu or by hitting <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard. When it opens, run below commands one by one to add PPA, update system cache, and install\/upgrade Audacious:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard\/webupd8\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins<\/pre>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait? For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Linux Mint 17.1, you can install my personal Qt build of Audacious 3.6 as well as plugins via below commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins<\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>(Optional) If for some reasons you want to remove this audio player (installed from my personal ppa), run below commands in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove audacious audacious-plugins\n\nsudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps && sudo apt-get update<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audacious player, a descendant of XMMS, has reached the 3.6 release at the end of February, which brings the new Qt-based user interface. This Qt 5 based UI can be installed alongside the existing GTK+ and Winamp Classic interfaces. 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