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The Audacious source is split into two packages. The “audacious” package needs to be installed before “audacious-plugins”. In each package, there is a file named INSTALL with further instructions for compiling and installing. (These instructions are not very helpful at the moment but will be improved as we have time.)

Most users should download the current stable release. Testing releases are likely to have problems and may not work at all. If you do install a testing release, please report any problems you find.

Current stable release: 3.2 (January 20, 2012)

Current legacy release: 3.1.2 (January 4, 2012)

Older releases are available here.

Linux

Most Linux distributions provide Audacious in their package repositories. Please note that these packages may be out of date.

Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint

Users of Debian and its derivatives can install Audacious with apt-get:

# apt-get install audacious

At present (December 2011), the versions of Audacious available in Debian are quite out of date: 2.3 in stable, 2.4.4 in unstable. Newer packages are available from Web Upd8.

Fedora

Fedora users can install Audacious using yum:

# yum install audacious

However, the “audacious-plugins” package distributed by Fedora is lacking important plugins; most notably, the MP3 decoder plugin. The missing plugins can be installed by enabling the RPM Fusion repositories and running:

# yum install audacious-plugins-freeworld

Gentoo

Gentoo includes Audacious in its portage tree, as media-sound/audacious. You can install the Gentoo ebuilds using emerge:

# emerge media-sound/audacious

Please note that you may need to use the testing branch to get the latest packaging. Have a look at the Gentoo documentation for more details.

Arch Linux

Audacious can be installed in Arch Linux using pacman:

# pacman -S audacious

Some plugins may fail to load unless all optional dependencies of the “audacious” package are satisfied. The ArchWiki has additional information about running Audacious on Arch Linux.

Microsoft Windows

Instructions for installing Audacious in Windows (XP and later) can be found in the “audacious” source package under contrib/win32/. Installation is a time-consuming process because of the number of third-party libraries that must first be downloaded and installed. For your convenience, we provide .zip files containing Audacious and its plugins along with these libraries:

audacious.exe can be found in the “bin” folder within these .zip files.

Licensing notice

These .zip files contain binaries of third-party software (listed in the file README.txt) whose source code is freely available on the Internet. Our intent in distributing these binaries is in no way to restrict access to the source code but simply to make life easier for those wishing to run Audacious on Microsoft Windows. If any of the authors of this software do not wish their work distributed in this way, please contact John Lindgren at the email address listed in README.txt.