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How to Install Audacious Music Player 3.8.2 on Ubuntu 16.04

To Install Audacious Music Player 3.8.2 on Ubuntu 16.04

Audacious is a free, open source and high quality audio player. It is known for its low resource usage and it supports a wide range of audio formats. It is the default audio player in Lubuntu and in Ubuntu Studio. This article sheds light on the installation process involved with Audacious.

Plugin Features

  • Decoder plugins, which contain the actual codecs used for decoding content.
  • Transport plugins, which are lowlevel and implemented by the VFS layer.
  • Output plugins, which provide the audio system backend of the player.
  • Visualization plugins, which provide visualizations based on fast Fourier transforms of the wave data.
  • Effect plugins, which provide various sound processing on the decoded audio stream
  • Container plugins, which provide support for playlists and other similar structures.
  • Audacious owes a large portion of its functionality to plugins, including all codecs. More features are available via third-party plugins.


Initiate the installation of Audacious by adding the audacious package into repository via ppa.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpq_sg4jt_/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpq_sg4jt_/pubring.gpg'  created
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gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Once it is done, update the machine by running the following command.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
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Get:17 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,516 B]
Get:18 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [3,328 B]
Fetched 3,038 kB in 19s (157 kB/s)                                                             
Reading package lists... Done

Now is the time to install the Audacious package, use the following command to install Audacious with plugins.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpango1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0
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Setting up va-driver-all:amd64 (1.7.0-1) ...
Setting up vdpau-driver-all:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ...


Audacious is now installed, launch the Audacious music player from Ubuntu dashboard.

Select and play your favorite songs.

Tag : Audio Player
FAQ
Q
What are the alternate free music player for Mac?
A
Try the following apps Elmedia Music Player, 5K Music Player, Fidelia Music Player, Vox Music Player, VLC, Tomahawk, Clementine
Q
How to create a own playlist in Audacious?
A
Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists.
Q
Does the Audacious has a graphical equalizer?
A
Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects.
Q
what is the latest stable release of this tool?
A
3.9 is stable and latest 3.10 available for beta.
Q
Its is possible to set the alarm in Audacious?
A
Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.