wildstar84
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2 years ago Thank you for the kind words and (documenation) support (we programmers have a reputation of sucking at documentation)! I am working on the README at the moment spurred on by the apparent travails of the creator of "Issue 9" and want to make this as accurate and painless for new users as possible. Looking at your list and comparing it to my current one and Audacious's list (https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/boards/1/topics/788), I discovered that libguess-dev isn't (any longer?) needed and doesn't currently exist (I'm using a distro based on latest Debian "Testing"). Fauxdacious, unlike Audacious requires libsdl2 (for video/DVD play) and does not require libsdl1.2. I keep the Qt lib requiremens separate, since one can build the GTK version without them. I'm assuming you're successfully using Fauxdacious though development has been very active as of late, so hope you've compiled the latest GIT commits and hope everything's working well for you. Keep in mind though that unlike Audacious, this is just a one-man (me) operation and my programming background is in Perl (not C++). Be sure to read up on the FAQ for how to best take advantage of the differences between us and Audacious.
Regards,
Jim
serrebi
Hello, I am a new user to fauxdacious. I came across your project via a back redirect while Google searching some troubleshooting steps that Audacious was unable to fix. Things like streams buffering for mp3 and AAC audio. Its being unable to support https or flac streams due to keys not being generated and a lack of metadata support respectively. Quite literally a search for '.lrc crashing Audacious' in Google led me to your project's FAQ. In case you come across any other people saying they can't build Audacious, I have narrowed down the issue to a poorly built installation tutorial. As I am a fairly advanced Linux user myself, I have rewritten it so that it is compatible with copy paste in terminal. Some areas of it (see below) I am still figuring out. Though I figured I'd help you out in progressing this project further as to me it is the best damn player Linux will ever see. As a side note, I should let you know that a friend of mine, who tried to install this on Windows, reported that it is inaccessible to screen reading users. Due to a programming language issue that regular Audacious code samples are still in the process of fixing. Here's what I've been able to decode into a workable basic documentation based on my understanding. Feel free to correct/update
(New: Basic Intro) Here is a simpler, updated, modern way to install the best fork of Audacious media player. Transforming your premium audio experience into a pro video media center. (To see the original documentation, click here.) https://github.com/wildstar84/fauxdacious (added) Steps:
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(largely unchanged from the default accept for when referencing git, has to be https now otherwise git alone will time out when behind a firewall) cd /tmp mkdir fauxdacious mkdir fauxdacious-plugins
git clone --single-branch https://github.com/wildstar84/fauxdacious.git fauxdacious git clone --single-branch https://github.com/wildstar84/fauxdacious-plugins.git fauxdacious-plugins
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(This section has some syntax complications that have been fixed) cd fauxdacious ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-qt --with-buildstamp=Fauxdacious make sudo make install sudo ldconfig cd ../fauxdacious-plugins ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-qt make sudo make install sudo update-desktop-database sudo update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/hicolor
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(this part of the install also errors out...unsure if it is due to wrong paths or syntax) cd ~/.config; mkdir fauxdacious; cp -R audacious/. fauxdacious
(added final note) Enjoy.
Not sure if this could be more useful for you in gaining more users for this media player. But I myself see the huge potential of it and wanted to let you know of its many major improvements I have seen you be able to code directly into it. Thank you sincerely.