New music player - Exaile!

[zenwhen]

I wish I had stopped updating. I can't use this awesome music player now.

[synic]

@ Synic,
Have you put any more thought into developing guitar tab fetching?
I have free time now-a-day's and will help you out anyway I can. Put me to work. Unfortunately you'd have to do the coding, I'm illiterate in this domain. I can help out in any other fashion.

Having this feature in a music player is my dream, I will throw out every other music player I have installed. Rather I will throw them in a pile, dump gas over them and... well you get the point.

What do you think about this?

It actually fetches from fretplay.com right now. It doesn't always guess where to fetch them from correctly... I'm not sure what to do about that. It would be nice if there was a site that actually had an api for this.

[synic]

VERY nice work synic!
The only issue I have with it is not being able to install python-gpod for ipod support.

I included the deb in the svn repository - it's debs/python-gpod-xxx.deb

[synic]

Regarding the pygst import problems:

Exaile now uses gstreamer0.10, so you'll need to install python-gst0.10. This is available only in Dapper. I decided to upgrade now because by the time I release, Dapper will surely be out.

[Harold P]

Oh, okay. It's only a few days, I can wait--after all: I still have my breezy version on my other ubuntu box.

I guess I could provide a mirror to the breezy version when I get to my other house tomorrow night.

[almahtar]

I've read through the thread and it sounds like quite an app. I'm working with a company that uses wxwidgets with their softare in C++, and I've been dying to learn python, so I think I'd like to join in on the dev. My problem, though, is this....

jonathan@Dragonfly:~/exaile$ ./exaile
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "exaile.py", line 44, in ?
    xlmisc.log_exception()
  File "/home/jonathan/exaile/xl/xlmisc.py", line 306, in log_exception
    wx.CallAfter(__log_exception)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 13257, in CallAfter
    assert app is not None, 'No wx.App created yet'
AssertionError: No wx.App created yet

I followed all your original instructions and any recommendations I found later on. Up to this point nothing in this thread has worked. Any idea what's up? I'm awful at debugging python stuff as of yet.

[Russty of Oz]

Hi,

I have got Exaile! installed and it looks great but it will only play mp3's! Can it play wma, wmv etc.? If so, how. I have the w32codecs installed.

Russty

[Rikostan]

I installed it last night.. no issues at all and I love the simple interface that still gives me decent control of my rather large music collection.

[synic]

Hi,

I have got Exaile! installed and it looks great but it will only play mp3's! Can it play wma, wmv etc.? If so, how. I have the w32codecs installed.

Russty

I just put support in for .wma. You'll need to install the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package for it to work.

[Harold P]

I just put support in for .wma. You'll need to install the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package for it to work.

Are you going to add that to the first post as a dependancy, or leave it as an option?