{"id":7084,"date":"2017-08-22T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T15:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7084"},"modified":"2017-08-22T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T15:52:04","slug":"audacious-3-9-released-how-to-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/audacious-3-9-released-how-to-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Audacious 3.9 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/audacious-icon245.png\" alt=\"Audacious music player\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Audacious audio player reached 3.9 release a few days ago with many new features, Qt UI enhancements, usability improvements, and various bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Audacious 3.9 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New &#8216;View&#8217; menu and additional options in Settings.<\/li>\n<li>Full drag-and-drop capability for playlist entries<\/li>\n<li>Configurable playlist columns (add, remove, resize, and rearrange)<\/li>\n<li>New controls for stream recording<\/li>\n<li>Improved playlist search bar, which hides until Control+F is pressed.<\/li>\n<li>Integrated menu items and keyboard shortcuts for the Playlist Manager and Search Tool<\/li>\n<li>Better high-DPI support and many other cosmetic fixes<\/li>\n<li>audtool gains better support for multiple playlists with the <code>--select-displayed<\/code> and <code>--select-playing<\/code> commands<\/li>\n<li>Recursive adding of folders specified in M3U playlists<\/li>\n<li>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/audacious-media-player.org\/news\/42-audacious-3-9-released\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a> for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_6420\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6420\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/audacious-gtk-winamp-interface-600x353.jpg\" alt=\"Audacious GTK and Winamp like interface\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/audacious-gtk-winamp-interface-600x353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/audacious-gtk-winamp-interface-450x265.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/audacious-gtk-winamp-interface.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audacious GTK and Winamp like interface<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>How to Install Audacious 3.9 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~nilarimogard\/+archive\/ubuntu\/webupd8\" target=\"_blank\">Webupd8Team PPA<\/a> has made the packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Linux Mint 18.x, and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching it from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard\/webupd8<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password (no visual feedback while typing due to security reason) when it asks and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/webupd8ppa-600x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/webupd8ppa-600x94.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/webupd8ppa-450x70.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/webupd8ppa.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Upgrade Audacious via Software Updater (Update Manager) if you have a previous release installed:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-audacious-600x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-audacious-600x394.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-audacious-450x295.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/upgrade-audacious.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or run following commands one by one to check updates and install the audio player:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins<\/pre>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>You can restore the Audacious music player to its stock version in your Ubuntu by puring the PPA via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:nilarimogard\/webupd8<\/pre>\n<p>You can then remove the audio player as you want via Ubuntu Software utility.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audacious audio player reached 3.9 release a few days ago with many new features, Qt UI enhancements, usability improvements, and various bug-fixes. Audacious 3.9 release highlights: New &#8216;View&#8217; menu and additional options in Settings. Full drag-and-drop capability for playlist entries Configurable playlist columns (add, remove, resize, and rearrange) New controls for stream recording Improved playlist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[569,1253],"class_list":["post-7084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-audacious","tag-music-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}