Audacious 4.6-beta1 released

May 10, 2026

Download links:

audacious-4.6-beta1.tar.bz2 (507 KB)
audacious-plugins-4.6-beta1.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)

New plugins and features:

Add file browser plugin
Add macOS Now Playing plugin
Port Playback History plugin to GTK (#1596)
Enable Xwayland only for Winamp interface (#1754, #1656)
Add a configuration setting for Xwayland (#1664)
Allow sorting playlist entries by bitrate (#1356)
Support exporting playlists on CLI with audtool (#1659)
Allow playing Musepack SV8 files (#1674)
Support all AIFF extensions and MIME types (#1690)
Add support for file creation/modification dates (#1701)
Allow to bring back playlist deletion confirmation (#1724)
Allow wrapping to last track in playlist with Previous button (#1726)
Add support for reading lyrics tag from Opus, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files
Allow to configure previous/next album global hotkeys (#1737)
Read ReplayGain tags with FFmpeg plugin for more file types (#1793)
Load companion .m3u/.m3u8 with Game Console Music Decoder for subsong metadata
Handle Delete and F2 key press events in Playlist Manager
Use localized music directory for Search Tool
Accept dropped files on main window of Qt Winamp interface

Bugs fixed since 4.5.1:

Fix corner case of Qt-only build with use_qt=FALSE in config
Escape brackets in file path URLs (#1649)
Work around broken drop indicator in Qt interface with Qt 6.8+ (#1667)
Fix help output for --pause command (#1678)
Prevent buffer overflow in PSF metadata parser (#1713)
Support more shortcuts in GTK/Qt interface to switch playlist tabs (#1730)
Fix encoding issue with lyrics on Windows (#1731)
Prevent undefined behavior for integer conversions (#1796)
Plug memory leaks in LIRC plugin
Prevent infinite loop with "Next album" and enabled shuffle mode

Other changes:

Remove deprecated Audacious code and APIs
Remove Mac Media Keys plugin (#1653)
Remove ChartLyrics support (#1728)
Drop autotools support in favor of Meson
Allow disabling any plugin with Meson
Enable -fvisibility-inlines-hidden (#1683)
Support version 3.0 of libsidplayfp (#1706)
Require newer versions for dependencies like GTK, Qt, FFmpeg, etc.
Install AppStream metainfo file by default
Various code cleanups

Thanks to all the contributors and bug reporters.