Quest 3: The Audacious Review!
Today, scrolling through the aimless and vast number of software present on ubuntu repositories, i came across audacious..Checking out there website, www.audacious-media-player.org ,i came to realize that this project was most likely discontinued. since the most lastest news bulletin on the site was an year ago.
But regardless of all that, i decided to try it out, since it reminded me of the classic winamp 2.x that i used to use and love..Installation went along smoothly, load of audacious was pretty fast, using only 2-5% of cpu resources… No hassle!!
Although it doesn’t have a media library, like exaile,Amarok etc..its simplicity is its greatest asset.
Although audacious comes with a very basic skin just like winamp 2.x did, downloading some skins off
www.winamp.com
www.deviantart.com
www.gnome-look.org
makes audicious quite presentable…
For those who require a simple player, without any playlist management then audacious is it!
* Screenshots of some skins for audacious*
May 23, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Hmm…Audacious has great looks and plugins as it can play video as well if you install the plugin for that, but I do prefer Exaile to Audacious. Exaile doesn’t lag on me as I don’t have too many songs like you and I like to manage my songs. Compared to Amarok even, I prefer Exaile Music Player. I guess it depends on individual. By the way, nice blog, keep ot going!!!
December 2, 2008 at 6:51 am
i like this player
January 12, 2009 at 1:38 pm
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