Audacious - An Advanced Audio Player

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Audacious 4.2 released

July 09, 2022

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New and improved features:

  • Add a built-in dark theme using Qt's Fusion style (default on Windows)
  • Add a dark theme-friendly variant of the built-in fallback icons, and make both built-in icon sets user-selectable
  • Add partial support for Ogg FLAC streams (#1075, thanks Jim Turner)
  • Preselect the filename of an imported playlist when exporting it again (#1128)
  • Automatically set the title of an imported playlist based on the filename (#1129)
  • Add a Search and Select dialog to the Winamp interface in Qt mode (#1138)
  • Add a Jump to Song dialog to the Winamp interface in Qt mode (thanks Steve Storey)
  • Add formatter syntax to allow truncating title strings (thanks iDarkTemplar)

Bugs fixed since 4.1:

  • Fix some fluidsynth settings not working (#1083)
  • Add checks to prevent Open Containing Folder from being abused to open other types of file (#1090)
  • Fix a crash in the bundled Game_Music_Emu library's SNES emulation (#1135)
  • Fix the Winamp interface not minimizing from the Windows taskbar (#1136)
  • Fix .mkv files being skipped when opening a folder (#1137)
  • Prevent the Qt interface from popping up multiple error dialogs (#1147)

Bugs fixed since 4.2-beta1:

  • Don't switch to FileWriter output when no other outputs are available (#1149)
  • Update for compatibility with FFmpeg 5.0 (#1159)
  • Fix hang when reaching the end of some files using FFmpeg (#1156)
  • Fix playlist unexpectedly scrolling in Winamp interface (#1157)
  • Prevent crash in 3rd-party QtPBFImagePlugin when using Winamp interface (#1166)