Welcome to the Exaile project


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Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, Last.fm scrobbling, support for many portable media players, internet radio such as shoutcast, and tabbed playlists.

Exaile 0.3.2 released!
2010-06-25 18:37

No new features since the rc, just a smattering of minor bugfixes.

Get it from our downloads page.

Exaile 0.3.2-rc1 released
2010-06-15 15:59

This is a release candidate for 0.3.2. It should be stable enough for normal use, and we’ll follow it with the final version shortly.

A quick look at what’s new in the 0.3.2 series:

  • Improved support for covers embedded in ogg and flac files
  • Gapless playback by default (via playbin2)
  • Many dialogs replaced with gtk InfoBars
  • Preference items that require a restart now prompt for it
  • Vastly improved lyricsviewer plugin
  • Drag and drop on the main cover display to set and retrieve covers
  • Track counts in collection panel
  • New tooltip for tray icon and minimode that displays cover and progress
  • Custom playback sink support
  • Display cover art when dragging from side panels
  • Read-only support for Matroska tags

...and of course, the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor enhancements.

Packagers please note the version upgrades for PyGTK and PyGObject this release, 2.17 and 2.18 respectively are now mandatory.

You can download the release candidate from our Launchpad downloads page. Please report any bugs you find and help us make this a great release!

Exaile 0.3.1.2 released
2010-05-31 14:17

Exaile 0.3.1.2 is the second bugfix release for 0.3.1. A short list of notable fixes:

  • Full python2.5 compatibility was restored
  • A bug resulting in unexpected duplicate playlist entries was fixed
  • Several stability and interface issues were resolved

Get it from our downloads page.

Exaile 0.3.1.1 released!
2010-04-07 15:24

Exaile 0.3.1.1 is a bugfix release for 0.3.1. A short list of notable fixes:

  • an issue that could cause exaile to be unable to run without installing was fixed
  • the tagger now only writes to changed files, not all selected files
  • an edge case that could result in new playlists not being saved was resolved
  • album shuffle now properly respects discnumber tags and double-digit tracknumber tags
  • arguments passed to the installed exaile script are now properly quoted, resolving issues with using filenames that had spaces or unusual characters in them.
  • a number of additional minor issues were resolved