New music player - Exaile!

[panaretos22]

how did you find it?is really good?any bugs on it?

[imdano]

I've just installed exaile to give it a try and I'm impressed. Excellent work to all involved. I have a few questions that I searched around for answers to but can't find answers to. Thanks for any help with one or all of these:

1) Exaile playback is slightly quieter than Amarok (that is if both are set at the same %Volume). Its not a problem, since Exaile is plenty loud, but I'm just curious if this is normal. .

This is caused by a bug in the gstreamer equalizer. Running exaile with the command line option --no-equalizer will bring the volume back to a normal level.

[zarathustra]

how did you find it?is really good?any bugs on it?

If you're asking me then I really do like Exaile, and consider it the best audio player for the Gnome desktop at the moment. It's got a nice design and everything that I want to it to do works.

[reacocard]

Are there any plans to use musicbrainz for metadata retrieval? I listen to a lot of audio CDs and it can be annoying when it doesn't pick up track info.

No there are no plans right now, perhaps you should request this feature. (file a 'wishlist' bug against exaile in launchpad)

how did you find it?is really good?any bugs on it?

Try it and find out. http://www.exaile.org/downloads

[jdackle]

You could also see synic (Exaile's author) first opening post for this thread...

Just trying it out - the official gutsy's repo's 0.2.10 version of it...

Finding it awesome though painfully slow on my 450Mhz Pentium III 512MB RAM PC...

Oh well...

[reacocard]

You could also see synic (Exaile's author) first opening post for this thread...

Just trying it out - the official gutsy's repo's 0.2.10 version of it...

Finding it awesome though painfully slow on my 450Mhz Pentium III 512MB RAM PC...

Oh well...

try using the devel version (there's a repo on exaile's downloads page), and installing python-psyco. that may speed things up a bit (at the cost of using more ram).

[plun]

and installing python-psyco. that may speed things up a bit (at the cost of using more ram).

Thanks reacocard....

python-psyco really boost my PC and I cannot say that it "eats" so
much resources.

(running exaile from bzr)

[betes]

Thanks to Imdano I got the volume worked out.

Also, updating to 0.2.11 seemed to solve the problem of not sorting aac a in tracks order (within an album). However, using daap streaming to listen to my music on my laptop (streamed from my desktop) the aac files still appear in my library in alphabetical order rather than according to the track number tag.

Is this a problem related to daap streaming or is there a chance one of my machines isn't as up-to-date as the other?

One more question: Does anyone know where to find a large image (.png or other) of the Exaile icon. I use a launcher screenlet/widget and the Exaile icon is too small to appear clearly next to the other launchers.

Thanks, and again, this is a great program.

[reacocard]

Thanks reacocard....

python-psyco really boost my PC and I cannot say that it "eats" so
much resources.

(running exaile from bzr)

it's about 5-10MB overhead for me. not terrible but noticable.

Thanks to Imdano I got the volume worked out.

Also, updating to 0.2.11 seemed to solve the problem of not sorting aac a in tracks order (within an album). However, using daap streaming to listen to my music on my laptop (streamed from my desktop) the aac files still appear in my library in alphabetical order rather than according to the track number tag.

Is this a problem related to daap streaming or is there a chance one of my machines isn't as up-to-date as the other?

One more question: Does anyone know where to find a large image (.png or other) of the Exaile icon. I use a launcher screenlet/widget and the Exaile icon is too small to appear clearly next to the other launchers.

Thanks, and again, this is a great program.

the daap plugin has its own sorting code, it's likely just not been updated to reflect the changes in the collection. as for the icon, I have no idea but synic probably has one so you could ask him (arolson at gmail dot com).

[jdackle]

try using the devel version (there's a repo on exaile's downloads page), and installing python-psyco. that may speed things up a bit (at the cost of using more ram).

Thanks reacocard!

I'll try it out the python-psyco thing and update to the latest stable Exaile - my system hasn't been so healthy lately and I don't want to install any development version at this moment; actually, I try and avoid dev unstable versions as much as possible.

Cheers!


EDIT: BTW, I've just noticed the GPG key from the Exaile repo is signed by you - are you the new main developer or the Ubuntu maintainer?