Install Audacious Player 3.8.1 in Ubuntu / LinuxMint

Audacious is an open source audio player , it  will run on Linux , BSD derivatives and windows This comes with many features including...

Audacious is an open source audio player , it  will run on Linux , BSD derivatives and windows

This comes with many features including drag and drop folders, individual song files, search for artists and albums in entire music library and inbuilt tweaking using the graphical equalizer 

Audacious having the modern GTK interface and more plugins.

In this tutorial i will show you how to install the latest version for Audacious 3.8.1 in Ubuntu  16.04 LTS / LinuxMint.

Changelog in 3.8.1

Fixed the random freeze in windows
Time value can become larger that the track length
Do not load metadata for songs until played option appears twice in the QT interface preferences

New features

New Arabic translation

Installation steps:

Webupd8 team providing the latest version via PPA

Step 1 : Add the PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

Step 2 : Update the repository

sudo apt-get update

Step 3 : Install Audacious

sudo apt-get install audacious