See File manager functionality#Directories are not opened in the file manager. Troubleshooting Audacious starts instead of file manager Alternatively drag the skin file directly into the list view of available skins. To add classic Winamp skins to Audacious, just copy them to either ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins/ (user only) or /usr/share/audacious/Skins/ (system wide), then select them from the Skinned Interface tab in Preferences. See audtool(1) for the whole list of options. There are also functions to control playback, manipulate the playlist, equalizer and main window. sf2) to the SoundFont dialog, they are located at /usr/share/soundfonts/.Īudacious is shipped with a powerful management tool called Audtool which could be used to retrieve information or to control the player.įor example, to retrieve the current song's title or artist, issue the following commands: , Plugins pane, Input tab, select AMIDI-Plug (MIDI Player)) add the installed sound font files one at a time (Extension. No further configuration is required on the fluidsynth package, but for additional functionality check the FluidSynth instructions.Īfterwards, the plugin will be enabled, and in the plugin configuration panel (File, Settings. To play MIDI and RMI files, it is required to install the fluidsynth package, and also install the sound font files, both freepats-general-midi and soundfont-fluid. 4.1 Audacious starts instead of file managerĬonfiguration Plugins AMIDI-Plug (MIDI Player).Since version 2 it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014. The optional Playlist view removes the file tree and bottom controls, while the Mini view drops everything but the play controls. Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for 80 million. The user interface in Full view is pretty simple: menu bar on top, left-hand pane holds a file tree-style browser, upper-right pane contains play controls, lower-right pane is the playlist, and shuffle/clear/repeat buttons along the bottom. Removable features include: audio CD playback, Last.fm scrobbler, album covers, desktop notification messages, EQ, IM status update, tags, volume normalizer, text file status output, and a Twitter client. The developers wanted to make a light and fast audio player that sticks to the core functionality of playing music, and they've posted some benchmark numbers versus other popular Linux audio apps to prove it. Instead of simply hiding unwanted capabilities by switching to a different view layout, Decibel claims that disabled functions are truly shut off, no longer using any CPU cycles or memory.

Decibel is a modular audio player that allows the user to completely turn off any functionality they feel is extraneous.

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