Audacious an open-source with Qt-themed interface and a lightweight audio player, Audacious runs on Linux, BSD derivatives and Microsoft Windows
This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to install audacious audio player 4.0.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04 & LinuxMint
This release contains many bugfixes and Qt tweaks
Audacious 4.0.2 Changelog
- Seek bar changing width as the time counter increments
- Title bar getting stuck showing Buffering
- Added a workaround to ensure that the toolbar is not hidden on startup4
- Fixed a regression where the Enter key did not work in the playlist
- Fixed the Composer field not being saved when updating ID3v2 tags
Installation Steps for Ubuntu / LinuxMint
Audacious doesn’t have official PPA for installing the player, Unofficial PPA contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10 & Ubuntu 20.04
Step 1: Add the PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
Step 2: Update the repository
sudo apt update
Step 3: Install / Upgrade the audacious player
sudo apt install audacious audacious-plugins
Uninstall audacious 4.0.2
To remove the audacious 4.0.2 use the system package manager or run the below command
sudo apt remove –autoremove audacious audacious plugins
