Exaile:Faq
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Exaile Frequently Asked Questions
When will version X come out?
When it's ready. There is no fixed development schedule, we just release new versions once we feel we have accomplished everything we want to for that release.
Will Exaile ever support skins?
Short answer: probably not anytime in the near future. It's written in PyGTK, so it follows your current GTK+ theme.
Can Exaile handle large libraries?
We've heard of good and bad results coming from people with huge libraries (>20,000 tracks). In some cases, people report that it works, where Amarok doesn't, and in other cases it doesn't perform as well. If you have any information regarding this, you should contact us.
Will Exaile ever have MySQL support?
No. As of 0.3 we are moving to a custom format for our database. We feel that this provides a degree of flexibility we would never be able to achieve with an SQL-based system, and also avoids the threading and encoding issues inherent in SQLite which plagued us in the 0.2 series.
Can I import my database from <insert player here>?
Not at this time. However, take a look at the User Scripts Section for a meta-data synchronization script.
Can Exaile share my music over a networking using Zeroconf/avahi, similarly to Rhythmbox or iTunes?
No, but it can view DAAP shares using the daapshare plugin. Note that due to changes in iTunes we cannot support iTunes 7 and later shares, however all shares from FOSS servers (such as Tangerine) should be compatible.
Does Exaile run on Windows? on Mac OS X?
Yes, if you do some work yourself. Note that this is currently unsupported, and assistance in improving the support for these platforms would be very welcome. (contact us via IRC or the exaile-devel list if you want to help)
Instructions:
Exaile says I don't have the needed decoder, or i might need plugins to play this file. What does that mean?
Due to licensing restrictions, several common formats such as MP3 and AAC are not natively supported by Exaile's media backend, gstreamer. You can remedy the situation by finding and installing the appropriate gstreamer plugins to handle your formats. Common open-source gstreamer plugin sets are known as "-bad", "-ugly", and "-ffmpeg", or for a closed-source (but more legally stable) alternative, the fluendo plugins can be used. Most linux distros include some if not all of these plugins in their software repositories, so check what your distribution has available before trying to obtain these via other means.
Are there any scripts to ease the user experience?
Yes, we have a User Scripts Section, feel free to take a look, and/or contribute with it.
