Audacious - audio player

Post details of freeware that are found to be not portable here. Posts in the submissions forum relating to freeware found to be not portable should also be moved here.
Post Reply
Message
Author
User avatar
I am Baas
Posts: 4150
Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:51 am

Audacious - audio player

#1 Post by I am Baas »

Audacious is an advanced audio player.
http://audacious-media-player.org/

Dl @ http://distfiles.audacious-media-player ... -win32.zip

Settings, Playlists, etc. in AppData\Local\audacious

Tested: Not Portable

User avatar
Napiophelios
Posts: 610
Joined: Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:48 pm

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#2 Post by Napiophelios »

Not a bad audio player tho.
It uses way less memory than my current default player (Xion)

MnX
Posts: 6
Joined: Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:18 pm

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#3 Post by MnX »

Being that it is now 3 years later, you might consider revisiting this as a portable option. I've been running Audacious 3.5.2 portable on XP and Win 8 for a few months now. Their current stable portable version is 3.7. More info at the bottom of this Audacious page for Windows: http://audacious-media-player.org/download

I've been running Audacious on Linux for years, and this portable version works great for me on Windows. There may be some details of what makes an app "portable" that I'm not aware of, but it might be worth a second look as a PF possibility.

lautrepay
Posts: 715
Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:31 am

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#4 Post by lautrepay »

MnX wrote:Being that it is now 3 years later, you might consider revisiting this as a portable option. I've been running Audacious 3.5.2 portable on XP and Win 8 for a few months now. Their current stable portable version is 3.7. More info at the bottom of this Audacious page for Windows: http://audacious-media-player.org/download

I've been running Audacious on Linux for years, and this portable version works great for me on Windows. There may be some details of what makes an app "portable" that I'm not aware of, but it might be worth a second look as a PF possibility.
Nice player, but still not portable. Configuration files are still stored in AppData\Local\audacious.
The minimum requirement to consider an application portable is that it saves its configuration files (or at least the main ones) within its own folder. Among other advantages, this allow you to run the program on different machines without losing your preferences.
Perhaps you can reach the developer and request a truly portable version...

MnX
Posts: 6
Joined: Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:18 pm

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#5 Post by MnX »

Hi lauterpay. Thanks for the info. I overlooked the need to save config files within its own folder. When I get time, I'll address the idea on the Audacious forum.

I know there are plenty of good media players here on PF, but it's always fun to have one more toy in the toy box.

EDIT ---------------

I've got a post on their forum now to see if it can be "fixed".

http://redmine.audacious-media-player.o ... opics/1764

lautrepay
Posts: 715
Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:31 am

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#6 Post by lautrepay »

MnX wrote:I've got a post on their forum now to see if it can be "fixed".

http://redmine.audacious-media-player.o ... opics/1764
Thanks!

MnX
Posts: 6
Joined: Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:18 pm

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#7 Post by MnX »

I got a reply today.

Code: Select all

Not currently.

Edit: Though you can just copy AppData/Local/audacious to another computer if you do want to transfer the settings. That's assuming all your music files are in the same locations on the new computer ...
http://redmine.audacious-media-player.o ... opics/1764

Oh well, it was worth a try. It never hurts to ask.

User avatar
tproli
Posts: 1172
Joined: Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:14 am
Location: Hungary
Contact:

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#8 Post by tproli »

you can just copy AppData/Local/audacious to another computer if you do want to transfer the settings
Or let automatize it with a yaP launcher.

freakazoid
Posts: 1212
Joined: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#9 Post by freakazoid »

Just tried the yaP launcher. Works great!

Some notes:
- Uses about 11MB RAM.
- Uncompressed filesize is 34.7MB excluding the /locales/ directory. Pretty large for an audio player, but it's because this was originally a Linux player.
- Multiple playlist support is nice, but if you're using Winamp mode, you have to use another window to switch playlists.
- If you're using yaP and you want to try custom skins, put them in the Settings/Skins/ folder.
- Zipped Winamp skins crashes Audacious. (Don't know if this is a Windows-only problem.) In order to get Winamp skins to work, you must unzip them and put each skin in a subfolder (Settings/Skins/[name_of_skin_here]).
- Using a Winamp skin and attempting to toggle the player or playlist to windowshade mode via double-click doesn't work all the time.
- No hotkey support. Hotkeys only work in Linux:
http://redmine.audacious-media-player.o ... opics/1595

XMPlay is still my favorite player though.
is it stealth? ;)

User avatar
webfork
Posts: 10818
Joined: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:06 pm
Location: US, Texas
Contact:

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#10 Post by webfork »

MnX wrote:Being that it is now 3 years later, you might consider revisiting this as a portable option.
I can't find anything addressing portability on the bugtraq. From experience, it's unlikely unless someone's ask for it that the devs have added something in.

User avatar
smaragdus
Posts: 2120
Joined: Sat Jun 22, 2013 3:24 am
Location: Aeaea

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#11 Post by smaragdus »

I have just tested the latest version of Audacious (3.7.1), excellent Cue Sheets support, too bad the player is not portable.

User avatar
webfork
Posts: 10818
Joined: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:06 pm
Location: US, Texas
Contact:

Re: Audacious V3.2.1

#12 Post by webfork »

Old(ish) thread update: An update was posted back in March but not much happening with the portable request:
http://redmine.audacious-media-player.o ... ssage-1800

Sigh.

Also, a screenshot:

---

Image

User avatar
Midas
Posts: 6710
Joined: Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:09 am
Location: Sol3

Re: Audacious - audio player

#13 Post by Midas »

Topic update: Audacious v4.0.4 released 2020-06-01 (changelog at audacious-media-player.org/news/49-audacious-4-0-4-released).

User avatar
Midas
Posts: 6710
Joined: Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:09 am
Location: Sol3

Re: Audacious - audio player

#14 Post by Midas »

Audacious v4.1 released (changelog at audacious-media-player.org/news/51-audacious-4-1-released).

As webfork noted above, there's an old portability discussion at redmine.audacious-media-player.org/boards/1/topics/1764.

Post Reply