Install Audacious Player 3.9 in Ubuntu 17.04 / 16.04 and LinuxMint

Audacious is an open source audio player runs on Linux, BSD derivatives, and windows.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the audacious player on Ubuntu 17.04 / 16.04 LTS and LinuxMint 18.x

This version comes with new features and needed updates to the Qt UI and better support for multiple playlists with the --select-displayed and --select-playing commands

Audacious having the modern GTK interface and more plugins and they are having Winamp classic skins.

Changelog in 3.9

New features:

• Recursive adding of folders specified in M3U playlists
• Direct output to ALSA devices that require packed 24-bit audio
• Automatic switching between track and album ReplayGain modes when shuffle is enabled/disabled
• Option in Speed and Pitch effect to adjust both parameters in lockstep, thereby preventing distortion

BugFixes:

• 'Critical error' message dialogs displayed by Windows are inhibited.
• Scrobbler URLs are no longer presented in a useless shortened form.
• album-artist was missing from the list of available custom title formats and has been added.
• Error and progress dialogs were missing and have been added in the Qt version of the skinned UI
• A startup notification is now sent when Audacious is started with only the status icon visible

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