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Exaile:The best Media player!

7 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/exaile-the-best-media-player.65413/

Dark Star
Dark Star Original post #1
Aug 13, 2007 at 9:52 AM
*www.imgx.org/pfiles/1382/exaile-logo.jpgExaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.

In addition, Exaile also includes a built-in SHOUTcast directory browser, tabbed playlists (so you can have more than one playlist open at a time), blacklisting of tracks (so they don't get scanned into your library), downloading of guitar tablature from fretplay.com, and submitting played tracks on your iPod to Last.fm.

*www.imgx.org/pthumbs/large/1381/exaile_large.jpg​

Exaile 0.2.10

  • Plugin Manager improvements – you can now install plugins from within the plugin manager
  • Scriptable Radio Panel – People will be able to write plugins for your favorite streaming service. (currently shoutcast is available)
  • Lots of new translations
  • New music sharing plugin – you can share your music with people using iTunes or other people using Exaile

See whole Changelog - ChangeLog - Exaile - Trac

Installation : - 2 Installation methods as usual :)

  • Open Terminal and type this :-
Code:
sudo apt-get install exaile
  • 2 Installation Step
Open Terminal and type following : -

Code:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add these lines at the bottom and save

Code:
deb *download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 feisty exaile

and then type the following in terminal : make sure you have saved above step ;)
Code:
wget *download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/8434D43A.gpg
sudo apt-key add 8434D43A.gpg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exaile

For Fedora users : -

Code:
yum install exaile

Enjoyy the best player for Gnome :hap2:

*www.imgx.org/pthumbs/large/1383/rating_large.png​

Home Page : Exaile | Music Player for GTK+
Plugins : Exaile | Music Player for GTK+: Plugin List
The Outsider
Aug 13, 2007 at 10:00 AM
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37436
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45977
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64553

someone should pin one of the topic to avoid further exaile adds :lol:
[xubz]
[xubz] #3
Aug 13, 2007 at 11:14 AM
Banshee is tad better than Exaile, Its based on GTK too.

Its in the Official Repositories, So you can just add it through Add/Remove (OR apt-get install banshee)
T
Aug 13, 2007 at 11:39 AM
i am using banshee too.
should i switch to exaile?
which is better?
Vivek788
Aug 14, 2007 at 7:28 AM
c'mon there are loads of s/w for various distros....many are similar and some have extra features....newbies reading all these can get confused.....I suggest newbies shud just try the one that is default installed,and then try others after some time....
Gigacore
Aug 14, 2007 at 7:29 AM
looks nice. no thanks i'm happy with XMMS
praka123
Aug 14, 2007 at 10:12 PM
xmms brings the old devil-gtk1.2 as dependency.get urself beepmedia palyer or bmpx or audacious or... based on gtk2(the base for Gnome).