Transport plug-ins, which are lowlevel and implemented by the VFS layer.

Decoder plug-ins, which contain the actual codecs used for decoding content.

More features are available via third-party plug-ins.Ĭurrent versions of the Audacious core classify plug-ins as follows (some are low level and not user-visible at this time):

MIDI via native OS synthesizer control or FluidSynth.Īudacious owes a large portion of its functionality to plug-ins, including all codecs.

WAV formats provided by libsndfile plug-in.

PlayStation Audio: Portable Sound Format (PSF and PSF2).

Several chiptune formats: AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, NSFE, SAP, SPC, VGM, VGZ, VTX.

GTKUI became the default interface in Audacious 2.4.Īudacious contains built-in gapless playback. Since version 2.1, Audacious includes both the Winamp-like interface known from previous versions and a new, GTK-based interface known as GTKUI, which resembles foobar2000 to some extent. According to the Audacious home page, Conill and others 'had own ideas about how a player should be designed, which wanted to try in a production environment.' Ariadne 'kaniini' Conill decided to fork Beep Media Player after the original development team announced that they were stopping development in order to create a next-generation version called BMPx. History Īudacious began as a fork of Beep Media Player, which itself is a fork of XMMS. Audacious was the default audio player in Ubuntu Studio in 2011-12, and was the default music player in Lubuntu until October 2018, when it was replaced with VLC. It is designed primarily for use on POSIX-compatible Unix-like operating systems, with limited support for Microsoft Windows. Originally in C99 and GTK, rewritten in C++11 and Qt at v3.6 Īudacious is a free and open-source audio player software with a focus on low resource use, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats.