Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player which supports winamp skins and many codecs.

in the default install, the following codecs are supported:

* mp3
* ogg vorbis / theora
* aac and aac+
* flac
* alac
* windows media (wma)
* wave
additionally, audacious is extendable through plugins, and contains other useful features like lirc support. support for many more codecs can also be added through plugins.

this package contains a library which provides core functionality of audacious.