Hi thane
Is it possible you're supposed to install audacious-plugins.tcz to play media files or streams (mp3, m3u)? From
the audacious-plugins.tcz.info file:
Comments: Requires alsa or pulseaudio sound
can optionally use the neon, libmms, wavpack, libvorbis, libsndfile, flac,
libcdio, lame, libsamplerate, libnotify curl, mpg123, faad and libsamplerate extensions
The list in the comments section looks very similar to what you reported. If that's the case, maybe a notation in the
comments section of audacious.tcz.info file should be added.