Introduction to Audacious
Audacious is an audio player.
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Package Information
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Audacious Dependencies
Required
GTK-3.24.52 and Qt-6.11.1
Recommended
libarchive-3.8.7
Optional
Valgrind-3.27.1
Recommended (for Plugins)
mpg123-1.33.5, FFmpeg-8.1.1, and neon-0.37.1 (for online mp3 and ogg radio)
Optional (for Plugins)
alsa-lib-1.2.16, cURL-8.20.0,
FAAD2-2.11.2, FLAC-1.5.0, LAME-3.100, libxml2-2.15.3, libcdio-2.1.0 (to identify
and play CDs), libnotify-0.8.8, libsndfile-1.2.2,
libvorbis-1.3.7, Opus-1.6.1, pipewire-1.6.6,
PulseAudio-17.0, SDL3-3.4.10, ampache-browser, adplug, The Bauer
stereophonic-to-binaural DSP (bs2b) library, FluidSynth,
JACK (requires
libsamplerate-0.2.2), libcue,
libmodplug,
libmms, libopenmpt,
libsidplayfp,
LIRC, sndio, SoX, and WavPack
Installation of Audacious
Installation of the Main Audacious Program
Install Audacious by running the
following commands (you may wish to change the buildstamp to
another string):
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup .. \
--prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-D gtk=true \
-D qt=true \
-D buildstamp=BLFS \
-D libarchive=true &&
ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
Installation of Audacious Plugins
Install the required plugins package by issuing the following
commands:
tar -xf ../../audacious-plugins-4.6.tar.bz2 &&
cd audacious-plugins-4.6 &&
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup .. \
--prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-D gtk=true \
-D qt=true \
-D opus=false \
-D wavpack=false &&
ninja
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
Command Explanations
-D buildstamp=BLFS: This
switch appends the given text to the version string.
-D gtk=true: This option
enables GTK support for the graphical user interface.
-D qt=true: This option
enables Qt support for the graphical user interface.
-D libarchive=true: This
adds libarchive support, for reading compressed module sets or
skins.
-D valgrind=true: The option enables
Valgrind analysis support.