Audacious Media Player
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Audacious is a media player for Linux or Linux based systems. It is a fork of Beep Media Player 0.9.7.1. William "nenolod" Pitcock decided to fork BMP after the original development team announced that they were stopping development, in order to create a next-gen version, BMPx.
The reasons for the fork were purely technical. There were some quirks in Beep Media Player that had annoyed users, such as the ID3v2 tag handling, which had been reported as "buggy" by some users. The developers also had their own ideas about how a player should be designed, which they wanted to try in a production environment. Besides, Beep Media Player allegedly lacked functionalities that were considered useful for people who did streaming, such as support for a XMMS-like "songchange plugin".
Audacious has full support for Winamp 2 skins, or "classic skins" as they are now called. There may perhaps be future support added for modern skins, probably as a separate module.
Audacious as a multimedia API
The internals of Audacious are presently being reengineered to be reusable as a multimedia API, somewhat like GStreamer. Documentation about this is still sparse, but is available on [the audacious site].Clients
Audacious supports the concept of other clients connecting to it, much like XMMS2, BMPx and MPD. The only known clients at this time however, are:
- audtool
- audtty
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