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# Audacious

From ArchWiki

Audacious is a free and advanced audio player based on GTK+. It's focused on audio quality and supports a wide variety of audio codecs, and is easily extensible through third-party plugins.

## Installation

audacious is available from official repositories. Install it with pacman. If you want audio CD support, install libcdio.

## Configuration

### Interfaces

Note: GTK+ is now the default interface in Audacious 2.4 and above.

Audacious currently provides two interfaces:

- Winamp classic interface
- GTK+ interface.

One may switch between two interfaces in Audacious.

#### Adding winamp skins

Adding Winamp skins to Audacious is very simple. Just copy your skin file (.zip, .wsz, .tgz, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2 file) to either `~/.local/share/audacious/Skins` (affect your user only) or `/usr/share/audacious/Skins` (affects every user), and then you can browse and select it from Skinned Interface tab in Preferences.

## Tips and tricks

### Audtool

Audacious is shipped with a powerful management tool called Audtool. Audtool could be used to retrieve information or to control the player.

For example, to retrieve current song title or artist, issue the following command:

    $ audtool current-song
    $ audtool current-song-tuple-data artist

There are also functions to control playback, manipulate the playlist, equalizer and main window. For the whole option list, see:

    $ audtool --help

### MP3 problems

Try to install mpg123.

## See also

- Audacious official site

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