Audacious 4.4.2

New features and improvements:

• Trim whitespace in URL opener

Bugs fixed:

• Parse font names containing digits correctly
• Avoid overly large info popup on secondary screen
• Hide info area text containing emoji properly

Other changes:

• Fix deprecation warnings from Qt and libsidplayfp
• Update translations

Audacious 4.4.1

New features and improvements:

• Support titlebar dimming for Winamp skins also with GTK
• Allow to never show playlist tabs also in GTK interface
• Improve controls responsiveness with the Sndio output plugin
• Add Qt 6 support for the Qt Multimedia output plugin
• Support many more MPRIS metadata fields
• Include .adx as file extension for the FFmpeg plugin

Bugs fixed:

• Include patch version in SONAMEs again
• Fix writing tags into audio files on Windows
• Make drag and drop work with GTK on Wayland
• Fix build with GCC and Meson on macOS
• Handle big-endian systems correctly with Meson
• Fix excessive CPU usage with the Qt Multimedia output plugin
• Enable scroll buttons for playlist tabs on macOS

Other changes:

• Lower GTK 3 version requirement from 3.22 to 3.18
• Offer SHA256 checksum files for our release tarballs
• Make CDDB support optional for the Audio CD plugin
• Allow minimum speed of 0.25 for the Speed and Pitch plugin
• Prefer PulseAudio plugin over PipeWire plugin for better backwards compatibility
• Specify application ID and icon name for PulseAudio
• Update translations

Audacious 4.4

New plugins and features:

• Add Background Music plugin which makes the sound equally loud within and between tracks
• Restore Lyrics plugin for GTK
• Add Disc Number support
• Read ReplayGain values in Opus files from R128 tags
• Allow to disable column header sorting
• Mute/unmute with middle mouse click on volume button
• Add new lyrics provider for chartlyrics.com
• Use a linear volume scale for PipeWire
• Handle Shift-Enter shortcut to queue track in Jump-to-Song dialog
• Offer more configuration options for the Crossfade effect plugin
• Show a tooltip for the Qt status icon plugin
• Support the Scrobbler (Last.fm) plugin also on macOS and Windows
• Allow to run custom commands with the Song Change plugin when a song is stopped
• Support building Audacious on Cygwin with Meson

Bugs fixed since 4.3:

• Make use of Windows' root certificate store to validate HTTPS certificates
• Provide the full range for libopenmpt's stereo separation
• Handle MP3 files with multiple image tags correctly
• Remove French prefix which lyrics.ovh embeds into all their lyrics
• Avoid needless resampling in the PipeWire output plugin
• Fix loading of local or cached lyrics, stored as .lrc files
• Make Scrobbler plugin work again by parsing Last.fm responses properly
• Don't treat MPG123_NEW_FORMAT as error when seeking in MP3 files
• Avoid crash when opening corrupted AAC files
• Fix build with C++20 standard

Changes since 4.4-beta1:

• Use X11/XWayland by default if available
• Prevent using Winamp interface on Wayland
• Install plugins on macOS as file instead of bundle
• Improve Wayland support for GTK interface
• Fix build with Qt 6.7.1
• Fix crash after a Qt interface could not be loaded
• Plug memory leak for Opus files with embedded images
• Check for Qt SVG module at build time
• Include developer name in appdata file
• Update translations

Other changes:

• Qt 6 and GTK 3 are now used by default, Qt 5 and GTK 2 support can still be enabled at build time though
• GTK support is no longer considered legacy
• Meson is now the preferred way to build Audacious, so consider switching from Autotools
• Switch to x86-64 for Windows build
• Various minor UI improvements
• Upstream forum and bug tracker were migrated from Redmine to GitHub (see also the announcement)
• Releases are published on GitHub now, based on the corresponding Git tag. Tarballs created by upstream will still be available via https://distfiles.audacious-media-player.org, as before.

Known issues:

• Using the Winamp interface on Wayland is not supported due to limitations in Wayland regarding application-side window positioning (see also common problems). Upstream suggests to run Audacious via XWayland therefore.