High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Audacious is a GUI-based free software media player for POSIX systems, such as Linux. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player 0.9.7.1, which is a fork of XMMS. William "nenolod" Pitcock decided to fork Beep Media Player after the original development team announced that they were stopping development, in order to create a next-generation version, BMPx. Audacious is a free media player for Linux or Linux-based systems. It exposes a large portion of its features to plugins, including all codecs. With Audacious, on most systems, a useful set of plugins is installed by default, providing the ability to play MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files.