Audacious 4.3 Beta 1: A first test version available
A little over a year ago, we announced the nWhat's New in Audacious 4.2, since we are often on the lookout for this useful open source audio player. And a few days ago the official announcement of the first test version (beta 1) of its future stable version 4.3.
Therefore, without hesitation, we will present in this small publication the news of the launch of "Audacious 4.3 Beta 1". Which, as usual, integrates interesting improvements, changes and fixesTherefore, very surely, it will continue to be a good alternative for those users who implement it for free on GNU/Linux and Windows.
But, before starting this post about the announcement of the launch of "Audacious 4.3 Beta 1", we recommend that you then explore the previous related post with said app:
Audacious 4.3 Beta 1: The new audio player
What's New in Audacious 4.3 Beta 1
According to his official launch announcement, this first test version (beta 1) includes the following:
Improvements in terms of plugins and features:
- Added an output plugin for PipeWire, another for the Opus decoder, and the display of the album artist count in the search tool.
- Support for G was integratedTK3 again, albeit optionally, as the default will still be GTK2. Also, support for Qt 6, although the default is still Qt 5, yel Meson support, fully and highly tested.
- Now allows you to copy the file path in the song info dialog (#1174). In addition to, yessupports Ogg FLAC audio streams (#1176) andsupport reading embedded letter tags (#1192).
- Finally, the following improvements were added: Support of the new song duration database format in the SID plugin, Admission of publisher labels and catalog number, a new file filter to dialog, and the ability to export a playlist file.
Bug fixes from version 4.2
- Fixed issue with being able to display the correct song length for streaming audio (#1179).
- Fixed power difficulty correctly handle compiled libflac without Ogg FLAC support (#1181)
- Fixed various issues, using the following fixes: Increasing the M3U file size limit from 16MB to 256MB (#1194), the pReservation of existing FLAC Vorbis comments (#1202) and the ealarm plugin removed due to fatal bugs (#793).
Y for more information, as usual, we leave the link of your Official website and his official section on GitHub.
Summary
In short, from this first test release (Beta 1), the users of said multimedia app and those who like to try innovative things, can already start testing what will be the next version of Audacious in the near future, that is, "Audacious 4.3". Most likely this year it will be available as a stable version, but if you are already a user of this beta version or the current stable version (4.2) it will be a pleasure to meet via comments What do you think and how are you using it?
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