Exaile
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Description
Exaile is a music player written in python that uses the GTK+ toolkit. Exaile is released under the GPL license. Features include:
- Retrieval of album art, lyrics, artist/album information (via Wikipedia), and guitar tabs (via fretplay.com)
- Tabbed playlists
- iPod Support
- Last.fm support
- SHOUTcast directory browser
- Track blacklisting
Installation
Exaile is available in Arch's community repository. To enable the community repository, it must be uncommented in /etc/pacman.conf:
[community] # Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/community
Exaile can then be installed using Pacman:
pacman -Sy exaile
If You use alsa and want to use alsasink instead of the default one, install gstreamer-alsa also:
pacman -S gstreamer0.10-alsa
This may solve problem if no sound is heard after installation and also when trying to play several sources simultaneously.
Enabling cover art, lyrics, and guitar tablature
While installing Exaile via Pacman will also install any needed runtime dependencies, two additional packages (gnome-python-extras & libgtkhtml) will be needed to enable the cover art, lyrics, guitar tablature, and wiki features of Exaile.
pacman -Sy gnome-python-extras libgtkhtml
Playing audio CDs
Exaile requires 'python-cddb' to play audio cd's. The correct package for this is cddb-py.
Troubleshooting
Progress bar stuck at 0:00
First, make sure there are no problems with your sound architecture (ALSA, OSS, etc.). And your playback sink in Exaile is set correctly. Try setting it to automatic first.
If you're trying to listen to an MP3 file, try playing an audio file encoded in a different format, such as .ogg or .flac. If these play correctly then try installing gstreamer-ugly.
pacman -S gstreamer0.10-ugly gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins