Audacious 4.5 released

July 16, 2025

Download links:

audacious-4.5.tar.bz2 (627 KB)
audacious-plugins-4.5.tar.bz2 (1.8 MB)

New plugins and features:

Provide VU Meter plugin also for GTK build
Add new Playback History plugin (Qt only for now)
Achieve feature parity for Jump to Song dialog (Qt vs. GTK)
Read color scheme from settings portal (#1469)
Support Album Artist tag in APE header (#1428)
Improve probing of small audio files (#1581)
Support outdated ReplayGain tags again in Opus files (#1500)
Improve PipeWire output plugin (#1401)
Allow fetching lyrics from lrclib.net (#1558)
Render Clutterbar in several Winamp skins (#1513)
Distribute additional skins by default: Glare, Winamp 2.9
Add setting for middle click action in Status Icon plugin (#1228)

Bugs fixed since 4.4:

Plug massive memory leaks in Jump to Song dialog (Qt)
Make Blur Scope GTK plugin work on Wayland
Prevent buffer overflow (#1541)
Work around Qt 6 icon search path bug (#1533)
Prefer OpenMPT plugin for S3M files (#1566)
Remove .m4v from supported file extensions (#1545)
Remove dual play icon in default skin (#1349)
Fix build with MacPorts (#1528)
Fix build on Cygwin

Changes since 4.5-beta1:

Include extension in file name playlist column (#1610)
Use endianness macros consistently (#1614)
Do not set an empty title for MOD files (#1615)
Support shifting entries in Qt queue manager
Update translations

Other changes:

Remove unmaintained and experimental Moonstone plugin (#1550)
Pad track number with leading zero in FileWriter plugin (#1222)
Create new playlist when importing one (#1508)
Declare support for AAC files in FFmpeg plugin (#1583)
Update build files for Autotools (#1458)
Provide info dialog for MPRIS plugin (#1595)
Prefer PipeWire plugin over PulseAudio if available
Support also SDL3 for SDL output plugin, drop SDL1 support
Specify supported MIME type for SID files
Handle dock activation on macOS
Change icons in preferences window

Thanks to all the contributors and bug reporters.