New music player - Exaile!

[Dirty Ole]

Check out this site here, hopefully you will find it useful.

Cheers.

Cheers Mate. I don't have problems playing the files, but that Exaile doesn't add mentioned files to its library while other audio players do. And those of which it adds they appear to be inappropriately tagged but actually they are.

Thanks for the reply anyways.

[merlyn]

That's most bizarre indeed, mp3's appear in my library no dramas.

I use 'easytag' to modify my mp3 tags, you might like to try that, (perhaps you already do).

[reacocard]

If the mp3s' tags have Unicode characters in them, that could be the problem. Exaile still has some issues with Unicode.

[Dirty Ole]

If the mp3s' tags have Unicode characters in them, that could be the problem. Exaile still has some issues with Unicode.

They were tagged using iTunes which uses Unicode. So does that mean I'll have to wait?

[klep]

hello all,

i'm trying out exaile as a possible replacement to amarok (which i absolutely love, but the startup time is horrible on gnome). I have a few issues:

I'm using .29. I note a few pages back someone saying about double albums getting ordered wrongly (1,1,2,2,..) and that this was supposed to be fixed. Presumably it hasnt? Or am i missing a setting somewhere.

Second is just a suggestion. It seems tiny, but the X clear search button in amarok is really useful. In exaile if ive searched for Pearl Jam for example, I dont know if there's any other way to see the rest of my collection again without selecting the search term and deleting it manually.
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Cheers

[reacocard]

They were tagged using iTunes which uses Unicode. So does that mean I'll have to wait?

Well, you could use something like easytag or cowbell to remove the Unicode charachers from the tags, but aside from that, yes.

hello all,

i'm trying out exaile as a possible replacement to amarok (which i absolutely love, but the startup time is horrible on gnome). I have a few issues:

I'm using .29. I note a few pages back someone saying about double albums getting ordered wrongly (1,1,2,2,..) and that this was supposed to be fixed. Presumably it hasnt? Or am i missing a setting somewhere.

Second is just a suggestion. It seems tiny, but the X clear search button in amarok is really useful. In exaile if ive searched for Pearl Jam for example, I dont know if there's any other way to see the rest of my collection again without selecting the search term and deleting it manually.
.

Cheers

I don't think the two-disc issue has been resolved. In the meantime, you could just edit the album tag to add disc 1 or disc 2 to the end, alleviating the problem.

If you install sexy-python it'll add a clear button to the search fields.

[klep]

thanks for the tip about sexy-python. Works a treat!

[merlyn]

I don't think the two-disc issue has been resolved. In the meantime, you could just edit the album tag to add disc 1 or disc 2 to the end, alleviating the problem.

I made the earlier post regarding the 'double' album problem.

A bit of background on this; I made a post on the 'official' Exaile forums regarding this before the site underwent it's transformation. The response that I recieved was that it was being looked into and ought to be fixed in the 'next' release.

This was some time ago, and I'm sorry but I cannot remember the actual release number at the time.

My query on this thread, was intended to get an update on the progress of the problem.

Also to determine why Rhythmbox interpret, (perhaps 'parse' is a better term), the tag data correctly and Exaile not.

As far as editing the album tag data, I've attached an Easytag screen showing how I've entered the 'data' into the 'field' in question.

Perhaps there is another 'format' I could use, as suggested above.

Cheers.

[reacocard]

I made the earlier post regarding the 'double' album problem.

A bit of background on this; I made a post on the 'official' Exaile forums regarding this before the site underwent it's transformation. The response that I recieved was that it was being looked into and ought to be fixed in the 'next' release.

This was some time ago, and I'm sorry but I cannot remember the actual release number at the time.

My query on this thread, was intended to get an update on the progress of the problem.

Also to determine why Rhythmbox interpret, (perhaps 'parse' is a better term), the tag data correctly and Exaile not.

As far as editing the album tag data, I've attached an Easytag screen showing how I've entered the 'data' into the 'field' in question.

Perhaps there is another 'format' I could use, as suggested above.

Cheers.

I just tested the multidisc thing, and I can confirm it doesn't work. At all. The best temporary solution is to take the songs' 'album' tag and append '(disc 1)', etc. to it. eg., "Random Album" becomes "Random Album (disc 1)". Not a perfect solution by any means, but it works.

[merlyn]

That seems a sensible enough work around.

It would be nice to see it working though at some point in the future.

Cheers