Name
About Audacious. Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks.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. Audacious has full support for Winamp 2 skins, and as of version 1.2, some free-form skinning is possible. Winamp.wsz skin files, a type of Zip archive, can be used directly, or can be unarchived to individual directories. Audacious is a free advanced audio player for Linux and many other UNIX-compatible systems. It focuses on low resource usage, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats. You can use Winamp plugin also Winamp skin to be installed on Audacious so the Winamp looks and effect can be functioned well on Audacious. Here you will be guided for how to install Winamp skin on Audacious, follow these steps: Close Audacious if running; Copy or download any Winamp skin, for this tutorial you can download Winamp skin here.
Audacious - an audio player for X.
Audacious Media Player
Synopsis
audacious [-h] [--help] [-r] [--rew] [-p] [--play] [-u] [--pause] [-s] [--stop] [-f] [--fwd] [-e] [--enqueue] [-m] [--show-main-window] [-v][--version] [--headless] [filename]...
Description
Audacious is a media player, based on Beep Media Player, which is in turn based on the X Multimedia System. It is used to play audio and other kindsof media files. By default Audacious can play MPEG audio, Ogg Vorbis, RIFF wav, most module formats, and a few other formats. Audacious can be extended throughplugins to play a number of other audio and video formats.
Options
Audacious accepts the following options:
- -m, --show-main-window
- Show the main window.
- -v, --version
- Print version number and exit.
- -H, --headless
- Starts Audacious in headless mode.
Skins
Audacious supports Winamp Classic style skins. Skins may be stored in either archived (.zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, or.tar.bz2) or unarchived format. Audacious looks for skinfiles in ${prefix}/share/audacious/Skins, ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, and locationsspecified by the SKINSDIR variable.
Keybindings
Global keybindings for Audacious:
Play
c
Pause
v
Stop
b
Next song
l
Play file
j
Jump to file
r
Toggle Repeat
s
Toggle Shuffle
Shift + l
Play directory
Control + l
Play location
Skins For Audacious
Control + p
Preferences dialog
Control + v
Visualization plugin dialog
Control + r
Time remaining
Control + a
Always on top
Control + w
Winshade mode
Control + d
Doublesize mode
Control + e
Easy move
Control + j
Jump to time
Control + z
Start of list
Control + n
No Playlist Advance
Control + 3
File info dialog
Control + Alt + w
Toggle Equalizer winshade mode
Shift + Control + w
Playlist winshade mode
Alt + w
Hide/show mainwindow
Alt + e
Hide/show playlistwindow
Alt + g
Hide/show Equalizer
Alt + s
Skin selecting window
Volume up 2%
Audacious Software
Arrow key down
Volume down 2%
Arrow key right
Skip 5 seconds forward in song
Arrow key left
Skip 5 seconds back in song
Up one step in playlist
Arrow key down
Down one step in playlist
Delete
Remove selected songs from playlist
Page Up
Move one page up
Page Down
Move one page down
Home
First page in playlist
End
Last page in playlist
Enter
Play selected song
Insert
Add file dialog
Shift + Insert
Add directory dialog
Alt + Insert
Add url dialog
Volume up 2%
Arrow key down
Volume down 2%
Arrow key right
Balance 4% to right
Arrow key left
Balance 4% to left
Headless Operation
Audacious supports a headless operation mode, where Audacious does not use X11 and instead operates as a daemon. You should note that you cannot switchbetween daemonized mode and X11 mode, and that if you wish to switch back and forth, that you need to do so when starting the program.
Audacious For Windows
When using Audacious in headless mode, you will need a client. Clients compatible with Audacious are listed on the Audacious website.
Files
~/.config/audacious/config
- ~/.config/audacious/playlist.xspf
- Default playlist usually loaded on startup.
- ~/.config/audacious/gtkrc
- User's set of Audacious-specific GTK config settings. Options such as widget color and fonts sizes can be set here.
- ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins, ${prefix}/share/audacious/Skins
- Default location(s) where Audacious should look for skinfiles.
- ~/.local/share/audacious/Plugins
- Location of user-installed plugins.
Environment
SKINSDIRColon separated list of paths where Audacious should look for skinfiles.
TARCMD
Tar command supporting GNU tar style decompression. Used for unpacking gzip and bzip2 compressed skins. Default is tar.
UNZIPCMD
Command for decompressing zip files (skins). Default is unzip.
Other Info
The webpage for Audacious is at http://www.audacious-media-player.org. Here you can find info about Audacious, download the latest version, plugins, andskins.
Ways to Install Audacious MP3 Player With Winamp Skin on Linux Mint. Audacious is the best equivalent program to Winamp to play music files. This article will guide you how to install Audacious on Linux also install Winamp skin on Audacious.
What is Audacious Media Player ?
Audacious is an advanced media player which can play many supported audio files. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you desire it, without stealing away your computer system ‘s resources from other jobs.
Audacious support drag and drop folders and individual song files, look for artists and cds in your whole music library, or develop and customize your personal custom-made playlists. Pay attention to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Customize the sound with the visual equalizer or experiment with LADSPA impacts.
Enjoy the contemporary GTK-themed user interface or modify things up with Winamp Classic skins. Make use of the plugins consisted of with Adventurous to bring lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the early morning, and more.
How to Install Audacious on Linux Mint
Fortunately, the Audacious audio player is available at the Software Center so you can Open your Terminal (press Ctrl + Alt + T) then type command below:
Now you can open Audacious after install by clicking Start Menu >> Audio & Video >> Audacious
Also you can run Audacious from the Sound icon on the Linux Panel.
Audacious have two interface: GTK and Winamp classic.
Please note that you will see an Audacious native window which is using GTK interface like this:
How to Activate Winamp Classic Skin on Audacious
If you want to activate Winamp classic skin for Audacious, you have to click Audacious menu: View >> Interface >> Winamp Classic Interface, and you will see an Audacious default window for Winamp classic like this:
To revert back the Audacious theme into GTK Interface: click on the “a” for Audacious symbol (see top corner Audacious window) then you will see View menu, select Interface, continue with choosing GTK Interface.
How to Install Winamp Skin to Audacious on Linux
You can use Winamp plugin also Winamp skin to be installed on Audacious so the Winamp looks and effect can be functioned well on Audacious. Here you will be guided for how to install Winamp skin on Audacious, follow these steps:
- Close Audacious if running
- Copy or download any Winamp skin, for this tutorial you can download Winamp skin here.
- Extract downloaded file, and you will see a folder called winamp_standar
- Open your file manager (Nemo) as root! Do that by opening your Terminal and type sudo nemo, then enter your password. You will see file manager with red line “Elevated Privileges”
- Go to this path: /usr/share/audacious/Skins
- Copy winamp_standar folder into that path. Next step you need to configure Audacious theme
- Open Audacious, go to View >> Interface >> Winamp Classic Interface
- Continue with View >> Interface Preferences
- Choose the Winamp Standard, then click Close button. See picture below
Now you have your Winamp on Linux natively after practicing this tutorial about Ways to Install Audacious MP3 Player With Winamp Skin on Linux.