Install Audacious 3.7.2 (Music Player) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2
 

Audacious is an open source and cross-platform project that provides users with a unique audio player application derived from the well known XMMS and Beep Media Player software. It is compatible with the GNU/Linux, BSD, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for a wide range of audio file formats, support for dragging and dropping of individual song files and entire music folders, ability to search for albums or artists in your entire music collection, edit or create playlists, as well as to listen to Audio-CDs or Internet streams.

In addition, it features a graphical equalizer that lets users to tweak the sound, supports LADSPA effects, a complex plugin architecture (a collection of plugins is available for download separately), and support for Winamp Classic skins.

The plugins that are distributed along with the Audacious audio player will extend its default functionality, allowing users to fetch lyrics for songs, set alarms, add support for even more audio file formats, add tray icon support, Last.fm scrobbler, and much more.

Among other useful features, we can mention a queue manager, shuffle mode, repeat mode, “stop after this song” and “no playlist advance” functionality, detailed song information, removal of duplicate files, and renaming of files.

Audacious 3.7.2 Changes:

• fixed ‘Album Title’, Year and Genre missing in playlist when adding songs from cue files
• fixed crash on missing .wvc files for hybrid wavpack files
• fixed audacious -j does not open jump-to-file dialog
• fixed scrobbler complaining of network problem when checking permission
• GCC 6 fix for JACK plugin
• fixed Network connection dropped then resumed, but Audacious does not refresh status

How to : Install Audacious 3.7.2 on  Ubuntu / Linux Mint / elementary OS :

To install Audacious 3.7.2 Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install audacious

After installation is completed, search on dashboard like this :


The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity