diff -Naur audacious-plugins-3.9-orig/src/qtui/info_bar.cc audacious-plugins-3.9-qt5/src/qtui/info_bar.cc
--- audacious-plugins-3.9-orig/src/qtui/info_bar.cc	2017-08-20 03:20:10.000000000 +0200
+++ audacious-plugins-3.9-qt5/src/qtui/info_bar.cc	2018-01-25 14:57:25.801669912 +0100
@@ -255,8 +255,8 @@
         if (d.title.text ().isNull () && ! d.orig_title.isNull ())
         {
             QFontMetrics metrics = p.fontMetrics ();
-            d.title = metrics.elidedText (d.orig_title, Qt::ElideRight,
-             width () - ps.VisWidth - ps.Height - ps.Spacing);
+            d.title = QStaticText(metrics.elidedText (d.orig_title, Qt::ElideRight,
+                                                      width () - ps.VisWidth - ps.Height - ps.Spacing));
         }
 
         p.setPen (QColor (255, 255, 255));