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Is there any chance we'll see the newer version of Audacious (2.4.2) in -current, or is it too late in the day? If I get time, I may try building it on my -current install.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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A new version would be nice as it stopped working sometime ago.
I don't remember at when, but the several times I've tried to use it, it reports
it can't find the codec for whatever audio file I'm trying to play.
A new version would be nice as it stopped working sometime ago.
I don't remember at when, but the several times I've tried to use it, it reports
it can't find the codec for whatever audio file I'm trying to play.
A new version would be nice as it stopped working sometime ago.
I don't remember at when, but the several times I've tried to use it, it reports
it can't find the codec for whatever audio file I'm trying to play.
Also, which version of Slackware? I haven't had problems in 13.1 or -current, but then again, I've only been trying to play MP3s.
I believe the problem above was my own stupid fault . You need to install Audacious installed before you build the plugins - I had Audacious 2.4.0 installed and was trying to build the plugins against that, rather than 2.4.2. Oops..
If it's OK with people, I'm just going to keep this thread updated with any problems I have with building/using Audacious 2.4.2 on -current. That way, at least the team know the package is being worked on for the next release .
There should be no problems building audacious-2.4.2 and audacious-plugins-2.4.2 under -current. Another reason to roll your own packages is to enable some of the plugins that require deps like faad and faac.
Both packages built successfully and Audacious works OK, though I get a warning about a broken timer with ALSA (I'll post the full message another time)..
I had never used Audacious before today. I still have 2.4.0 on 64-current fully updated. It seems to work just fine, playing anything I throw at it so far.
Allright - I take that back. It can't seem to play .wav.
I had never used Audacious before today. I still have 2.4.0 on 64-current fully updated. It seems to work just fine, playing anything I throw at it so far.
Allright - I take that back. It can't seem to play .wav.
The main reason I wanted to use the newer version was that in 2.4.0 there was a problem with track shuffling and the GTK+ 2 interface. Basically, if you have shuffling on and the next track is out of the field of view (so you have to scroll to see it in the playlist), when that track is played, the list doesn't automatically scroll. This works in version 2.4.0 with the other interface, but I prefer the GTK+ 2 one. This bug seems to be fixed in 2.4.2, I'm glad to say .
I have compiled 2.4.2 on -current in despite being an MPlayer man through and through . Works very nicely under xfce and looks great with the gtk interface.
@mlangdn:I can play wav files wih no problem though, perhaps it is the FFaudio plugin courtesy of compiling the plugins in the presence of FFmpeg/libavcodec?
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. You need to install Audacious installed before you build the plugins - I had Audacious 2.4.0 installed and was trying to build the plugins against that, rather than 2.4.2. Oops..
