Audacious - OLD, PLEASE USE GITHUB DISCUSSIONS/ISSUES

Does Audacious' config file contain "show_interface=FALSE"?
Maybe this bug report is related: http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/512

The config file doesnt contain anything like that at all. In fact now audacious isnt playing anything even though its the default program for music files. Double click and nothing even in the process list

What is the output if you start Audacious from the command line? To get more output use "audacious -V".

Also what happens with a clean configuration?

mv ~/.config/audacious ~/.config/audacious.old

from command line

ade@ade-G41D3C:/media/Downloads$ audacious
ERROR plugin-init.cc:132 [start_single]: No output plugin found.
(Did you forget to install audacious-plugins?)
Aborted

Also
ade@ade-G41D3C:/media/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install audacious-plugins
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
audacious-plugins is already the newest version.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.

Tried uninstalling and reinstalling too.

Moving config file does the same

ade@ade-G41D3C:/media/Downloads$ mv ~/.config/audacious ~/.config/audacious.old
ade@ade-G41D3C:/media/Downloads$ audacious
ERROR plugin-init.cc:132 [start_single]: No output plugin found.
(Did you forget to install audacious-plugins?)
Aborted

Meant to add..

ade@ade-G41D3C:/media/Downloads$ audacious -V
INFO dbus-server.cc:739 [name_acquired]: Owned D-Bus name (org.atheme.audacious) on session bus.
INFO main.cc:353 [main]: No remote session; starting up.
INFO plugin-init.cc:111 [start_single]: Probing for output plugin.
ERROR plugin-init.cc:132 [start_single]: No output plugin found.
(Did you forget to install audacious-plugins?)
Aborted

Do the versions of audacious and audacious-plugins match? And from where did you get version 3.6?
We cannot help if you do not provide enough information.

I got audacious from the webupd8 ppa. i have since removed audacious from that ppa and installed audacious from the software center and still i get the same error

Sorry meant to add this is the error:

ERROR plugin-load.cc:61 [plugin_load]: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/tonegen.so could not be loaded: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/tonegen.so: file too short
ERROR plugin-load.cc:61 [plugin_load]: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/metronom.so could not be loaded: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/metronom.so: file too short
ERROR plugin-init.cc:132 [start_single]: No output plugin found.
(Did you forget to install audacious-plugins?)
Aborted

audacious -V gives me this:

INFO dbus-server.cc:739 [name_acquired]: Owned D-Bus name (org.atheme.audacious) on session bus.
INFO main.cc:353 [main]: No remote session; starting up.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/flacng.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/flacng.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/modplug.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/modplug.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/console.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/console.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/xsf.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/xsf.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/madplug.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/madplug.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/psf2.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/psf2.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/tonegen.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/tonegen.so.
ERROR plugin-load.cc:61 [plugin_load]: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/tonegen.so could not be loaded: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/tonegen.so: file too short
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/vorbis.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/vorbis.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/wavpack.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/wavpack.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/aac-raw.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/aac-raw.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/sndfile.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/sndfile.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/adplug.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/adplug.so.
INFO plugin-registry.cc:492 [plugin_register]: New plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/metronom.so
INFO plugin-load.cc:55 [plugin_load]: Loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/metronom.so.
ERROR plugin-load.cc:61 [plugin_load]: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/metronom.so could not be loaded: /usr/local/lib/audacious/Input/metronom.so: file too short
INFO plugin-init.cc:111 [start_single]: Probing for output plugin.
ERROR plugin-init.cc:132 [start_single]: No output plugin found.
(Did you forget to install audacious-plugins?)
Aborted

The path "/usr/local/lib/" implies that you compiled Audacious from source.
But you forgot to remove it before installing the packages from the PPA or Ubuntu repository.

Remove the files with "make uninstall" and then make sure Audacious is installed together with audacious-plugins.

Thanks, that worked great!