Today we are going to talk about a new app that has just been updated ... Well, I'm not kidding anymore because it was going to be discovered soon. And it is that the new version of which I speak is that of a software whose first version was launched in 1997, but it did so under the name of XMMS. It was a free alternative to the famous Windows WinAmp and was later renamed Audacious. Over the weekend, its developers have released Audacious 4.0, with the main novelty that it has become based on Qt 5 default.
As we read in the release note, who are "The Qt UI has gotten pretty polished by now. It will be quite familiar to users of the GTK2 UI, but it also brings some cool enhancements, such as a playlist view that is easier to navigate and sort.«. Below you have the News list that has arrived this weekend together with Audacious 4.0.
What's new in Audacious 4.0
- Clicking the column headings in the playlist sorts the playlist.
- Dragging the column headings in the playlist changes the order of the columns.
- Application-wide configuration for volume and time step sizes.
- New option to hide playlist tabs.
- Sort Playlist By Path now sorts folders after files.
- Implemented additional MPRIS calls for compatibility with KDE 5.16+.
- New OpenMPT based tracker module plugin.
- New VU meter display plugin.
- Added option to use a SOCKS network proxy.
- The Song Change plugin now works on Windows.
- New commands «Next album» and «Previous album».
- The tag editor in Qt UI can now edit multiple files at once.
- Equalizer presets window implemented for Qt UI.
- The lyrics plugin gained the ability to save and load lyrics locally.
- Blur Scope and Spectrum Analyzer visualizations ported to Qt.
- Sound source selection of the MIDI plug-in ported to Qt.
- The JACK output plugin got some new options.
- Added option for infinite loop of PSF files.
- Fixed the blurry icon in Windows.
- CUE sheet entries in an .m3u list are now added correctly.
- Minor fixes in the management of the output stream.
- Experimental support to build with Meson.
Your tarball now available
As of this writing, Audacious 4.0 it is only available as a "tarball", which we can download from the link of the release note. In the next few days it should appear in the software centers of the different Linux distributions.
I don't see apps going from Qt to Gtk and I wonder if this fact is simply due to backwards compatibility breaks or is there something else, a commercial issue.