Audacious and the phantom window

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Hi everyone,
I just installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS default selection in a Lenovo V15 G4 IRU notebook.
One of the first applications I installed was Audacious media player. First I tried the snap package via App Center, however I noticed that it did not recognize my USB stick, where I keep my mp3s, so I uninstalled it and tried the deb package, always via App Center. At first everything seemed fine, my USB stick was finally recognized and I could start playing some music.

Then I noticed two red dots besides the Audacious logo in the sidebar, as if there were two windows open instead of just one, and, what was most annoying, the popup information sticks to the upper left corner of my screen, without following the Audacious window. Since I enabled the auto-hide function of the sidebar, every time I move the mouse on a mp3 track, the popup hides the sidebar.

Is anyone of you having an idea of how can I solve this issue? I thought that maybe the snap package I installed for first was not properly uninstalled and is somehow interfering. For the moment I disabled the popup information.

Moreover, I also noticed that the graphic equalizer is frozen, does not move.
Music is playing fine.

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Just a:

sudo snap connect audacious:removable-media

Would have helped here (or simply allowing removable media access through the security options in the app settings of your desktop settings)…

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Can I still fix it or are you suggesting to remove the deb package and reinstall the snap package? I know, before uninstalling the snap package I should have tried to find a solution like yours, but I was looking forward to listening some mp3…

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No, I didn’t mean to suggest anything you should do.

I just wanted to point out a solution for the snap side in case others run into the same and come here through a Google search or some such…

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There will be two dots if the Playlist Manager is open, since it’s a separate window.

The popup information can be disabled in the Audacious settings, under “Song Info”.

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Yes, I disabled the popup information for the moment.
I never used the playlist manager so far. With the playlist manager open there are three dots.

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Well then, that is a bit of mystery. On mine, with the Playlist manager closed, there is just one dot.

If you had the snap and .deb version both running, that could cause the two dots, but you uninstalled the snap, right?

There is an explanation, but besides the above, none comes to mind at the moment. At least the player works normally.

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