Audacious Media Player - outdated package (3 years old)

[kepler1]

Hi all!

Is there any possibility that we can receive a newer version of Audacious? This is my daily driver for playing mp3 / online radio streams and i recommend it to everyone. It is low on resources, works perfectly and integrates accordingly with XFCE.

https://audacious-media-player.org/

Current version is from 2016... : 3.7.2 - March 2016

Latest version is 3.10.1 - December 2018

Best regards

[JayM]

That version's already in the MX Test repo. Use MX Package Installer and click on that tab and you'll find it.

[kepler1]

That version's already in the MX Test repo. Use MX Package Installer and click on that tab and you'll find it.

Hi and thanks!

If i'm not too bold, can I ask why older packages like this are not updated in the Main Repo?

I mean the Audacious packages from Test seems to work just fine, in this case.

[asqwerth]

Usually there is a proper thread for each application that is backported or packaged for MX by the Packaging Team, found here:
viewforum.php?f=134

The packages are kept in MX Test Repo - in case of bugs or mistakes in packaging - until enough users report in the specific thread that the Test Repo package is working fine, after which it can be moved to main repo.

In the case of Audacious, I can't find a thread of its own.

Probably means no one ever reported that it was working well so it was never moved out of Test.

[kepler1]

Thanks for the info.

Well... As I am the only user using Audacious, I guess it can be moved to Main repo :).

I didn't encounter any problem while using the test version.

[Antediluvian]

I have a conventional Dell computer. I only tested the basic functions. Audacious 3.10-0.1~mx17+1 works well for me so far.

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System:    Host: Dell7010 Kernel: 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.3_x64 Continuum March 14  2018 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 7010 v: 01 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0GY6Y8 v: A03 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A16 date: 09/09/2013 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-3470 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge 
           rev: 9 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 25541 
           Speed: 1669 MHz min/max: 1600/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1687 2: 1674 3: 1596 
           4: 1596 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Dell 
           driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Desktop v: 4.2 Mesa 18.2.6 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-1-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k 
           port: f080 bus ID: 00:19.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.52 GiB used: 247.82 GiB (26.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500DM002-1BD142 size: 465.76 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKS-00A7B2 size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 455.26 GiB used: 247.69 GiB (54.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 136.2 MiB (6.6%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch/ stretch main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list 
           1: deb http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list 
           1: deb https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free #Opera Browser (final releases)
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list 
           1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
           1: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/ stretch contrib
Info:      Processes: 209 Uptime: 6d 1h 56m Memory: 7.71 GiB used: 2.16 GiB (28.0%) 
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.33 

[kepler1]

That's a nice PC there :). Now this is a basic pc:

Audacious works fine.

CPU: Dual Core Intel Core2 Duo E4600 (-MCP-) speed: 1819 MHz Kernel: 4.19.0-5-amd64 x86_64
Up: 1m Mem: 915.3/3000.4 MiB (30.5%) Storage: 223.57 GiB (46.1% used) Procs: 178
Shell: bash 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.33

Graphics: Device-1: AMD Caicos XT [Radeon HD 7470/8470 / R5 235/310 OEM] driver: radeon
v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: radeon resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-5-amd64 LLVM 7.0.0)
v: 3.3 Mesa 18.2.6

Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-5-amd64

[Stevo]

I've asked Tim to move it and audacious-plugins to main for MX 15-18.

[kepler1]

I've asked Tim to move it and audacious-plugins to main for MX 15-18.

Thanks!

Just upgraded, everything is smooth.

Cheers

[colin_b]

Audacious 3.3 released

https://audacious-media-player.org/news ... 3-released

Audacious now saves the current position within a song when you start playing a different playlist. To resume from where you left off in a playlist, simply double-click on the tab for that playlist.

Various improvements have been made to the GTK+ interface, such as the addition of a genre column and the use of a slight gradient to make the info bar a little prettier. For users who find it annoying or want to save some CPU cycles, the visualization in the info bar can now be disabled. The playback toolbar is now styled as a “primary toolbar” so that it looks better in e.g. GNOME 3.

Several improvements have also been made to the search tool plugin. Searching is more intelligent, so that you can search by artist, album, and song title simultaneously, and more information is displayed about the search results. There is new keyboard shortcut (control Y) to activate the search tool within the GTK+ interface, and the escape key can be used to return the keyboard focus back to the playlist.

The core output code, which had become rather disorderly as new features were added, has been partially rewritten. One of the goals of the rewrite was to make it possible for effect plugins to vary the playback speed without restarting playback; there is a new “speed and pitch” plugin (replacing SndStretch) that takes advantage of this capability.

Audio format conversions have been fixed so that bit-perfect playback is now possible for 16-bit and 24-bit audio files (as it already was for floating-point). In addition, the FileWriter plugin can now save 24-bit and floating-point .wav files.