Lately it has come to my attention that because there hasn’t been a release in a few months and that there is little activity in the 0.2 branch, people think that Exaile is dying. I just want to clear this up :)

Exaile 0.3 is under very active development. This is a complete (almost) rewrite of the entire Exaile codebase. The reason that you’re not seeing any activity in the 0.2 branch is because we’ve moved all of our effort to bringing a quick beta release to 0.3. There is still a LOT to do, so it might be a while. Currently there is a GUI and a backend that work, and Aren and I both use it as our main music player. Things like preferences and etc are still all done manually from the command line.

This rewrite will most likely speed things up usability wise, but to you it will mean better and faster releases.

More information can be found on my blog (http://www.vimtips.org).

Today, April 1 2008, Amazon discontinued their ECS version 3.0 in favor of 4.0. This caused album art to stop being collected correctly. Exaile 0.2.13 is an emergency release aimed to fix this problem.

Grab it from the downloads page.

To fix the crashes people are getting on Gutsy (Ubuntu 7.10) when using the information tab, I’ve updated the binary files for i386 and amd64 on the downloads page to include a fix that will set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to the correct location.

If you are using our Ubuntu repository and 0.2.12b (noted on the downloads page), you may not receive any indication that there is an update for 0.2.12. This is because of a problem with our package naming scheme and will be fixed with the next version.

To update Exaile, it is safe to run “apt-get remove exaile && apt-get install exaile”.

NOTE: This is only for users of our PPA archive.