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Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK2, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs.
Its advanced audio playback engine is considerably more powerful than GStreamer. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS
Codec Support
MP3
AAC, AAC+
Vorbis
FLAC
Wavpack
Musepack
TTA
WMA
ALAC
150 different module formats
Several chiptune formats: AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, NSFE, SAP, SPC, VGM, VGZ, VTX
Playstation Audio: PSF1, MiniPSF1
Ad-lib chiptunes via AdPlug library
Microsoft ADPCM, RIFF .wav data, 18+ different other WAV formats provided by sndfile plugin.
MIDI via native OS synthesizer control or TiMidity.
CD Audio
Output system support
OSS (most UNIXes, Linux)
ALSA (Linux)
4.2BSD/SunOS audio system (Solaris)
CoreAudio (MacOS)
ESound support
PulseAudio support
JACK support
Transcoding support
WAV
FLAC
Vorbis
MP3
Effect Processing
Can function as a LADSPA host (as far as we know, we're the only player that can do this out of the box)
Audio Compression plugin (AudioCompressor AGC) to keep volume normalized at a specific level
Echo enhancing plugin
Stereo separation plugin
Voice Removal plugin
Sound stretching plugin
Visualization
Paranormal Visualization Studio -- a plugin like AVS
ProjectM -- a plugin like Milkdrop
Blur Scope
Spectrum Analyzer
RockLight -- a stroboscope for Thinkpad and Macintosh lights
Extra Plugins
Scrobbler Plugin -- a plugin that enables you to listen to Last.FM streams and submit tracks to Last.FM
Song Change -- a plugin that executes scripts at the beginning, end of songs and the end of a playlist
EvDev-Plug -- a plugin that allows you to control Audacious with a gamepad or joystick
Status Icon -- a plugin that allows you to shrink Audacious down to the system tray
Audacious OSD -- a plugin that announces songs for you
Alarm -- a plugin that can schedule playback at a given time each day (like an Alarm Clock)
Streaming support
MP3, Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, AAC+ via IceCast/ShoutCast
Any format supported via normal HTTP
Its advanced audio playback engine is considerably more powerful than GStreamer. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS
Codec Support
MP3
AAC, AAC+
Vorbis
FLAC
Wavpack
Musepack
TTA
WMA
ALAC
150 different module formats
Several chiptune formats: AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, NSFE, SAP, SPC, VGM, VGZ, VTX
Playstation Audio: PSF1, MiniPSF1
Ad-lib chiptunes via AdPlug library
Microsoft ADPCM, RIFF .wav data, 18+ different other WAV formats provided by sndfile plugin.
MIDI via native OS synthesizer control or TiMidity.
CD Audio
Output system support
OSS (most UNIXes, Linux)
ALSA (Linux)
4.2BSD/SunOS audio system (Solaris)
CoreAudio (MacOS)
ESound support
PulseAudio support
JACK support
Transcoding support
WAV
FLAC
Vorbis
MP3
Effect Processing
Can function as a LADSPA host (as far as we know, we're the only player that can do this out of the box)
Audio Compression plugin (AudioCompressor AGC) to keep volume normalized at a specific level
Echo enhancing plugin
Stereo separation plugin
Voice Removal plugin
Sound stretching plugin
Visualization
Paranormal Visualization Studio -- a plugin like AVS
ProjectM -- a plugin like Milkdrop
Blur Scope
Spectrum Analyzer
RockLight -- a stroboscope for Thinkpad and Macintosh lights
Extra Plugins
Scrobbler Plugin -- a plugin that enables you to listen to Last.FM streams and submit tracks to Last.FM
Song Change -- a plugin that executes scripts at the beginning, end of songs and the end of a playlist
EvDev-Plug -- a plugin that allows you to control Audacious with a gamepad or joystick
Status Icon -- a plugin that allows you to shrink Audacious down to the system tray
Audacious OSD -- a plugin that announces songs for you
Alarm -- a plugin that can schedule playback at a given time each day (like an Alarm Clock)
Streaming support
MP3, Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, AAC+ via IceCast/ShoutCast
Any format supported via normal HTTP
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