Install Audacious 3.2 beta in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04

Audacious is a highly configurable music player for GNOME that has a very low memory footprint and comes with many plugins as well as two interfaces: a GTK and a Winamp2-like interface

Audacious 3.2 beta has been released recently, featuring a new music library plugin which lets you search your whole music collection and easily create playlists.

Changes in Audacious 3.2 beta since 3.1.x:

•  GTK interface improvements: a new button to toggle the new quick search on/off, buttons to close and add new playlist tabs, a drop-down menu to enable and disable visualization plugins, and a menu item to remove unavailable files from the playlist.
• Many changes related to handling large playlists (tens of thousands of entries) efficiently.
• Startup time, memory usage, and disk writes reduced signigicantly.

Install Audacious 3.2 beta in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04

The latest Audacious 3.2 beta is available in the WebUpd8 Unstable PPA, for Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 - add it and install Audacious 3.2 beta using the commands below:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable 
• sudo apt-get update 
• sudo apt-get install audacious

To use Audacious with GNOME Shell Mediaplayer, you need to edit the extension metadata file (until the extension is updated to support it) called “metadata.json” which is located under:

• /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/mediaplayer@patapon.info if you’ve installed it from source / PPA

• ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/mediaplayer@patapon.info if you’ve installed it via the GNOME Shell extensions website.