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    HOWTO: Latest Quod Libet audio player

    An oft overlooked audio player and musical organizing tool in the Ubuntu world is Quod Libet. Personally, it ranks as my favorite audio player, even over the sacred Rhythmbox . Also, QL comes bundled with a VERY powerful tagging tool, called Ex Falso, which is invaluable when your music collection literally has thousands of songs across different formats

    The Ubuntu repositories have an ancient version of the QL, and Google revealed an equally old .deb file. Knowing that Quod Libet was written in Python, I knew installation had to be easy as pie - it was!

    First, open up a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) to grab the latest and greatest source from Quod Libet's official web site.

    Code:
    # wget http://www.sacredchao.net/~piman/software/quodlibet-0.17.1.tar.gz
    Second, extract the gzipped tar file.

    Code:
    # tar xvzf quodlibet-0.17.1.tar.gz
    Change into the directory that tar extracted the files to.
    Code:
    cd quodlibet-0.17.1
    Before you go further, you will probably have to install intltool, an XML related series of scripts that QL's makefile depends on. You can learn more about intltool by running apt-cache show intltool.

    Code:
    sudo apt-get install intltool
    Allow it to install the additional files, too. One more steps to go!

    Code:
    sudo make install
    It is now installed. If you don't see Quod Libet in the Gnome menu, run killall gnome-panel

    Enjoy your new music player . And if you aren't satisfied with Quod Libet's features, then maybe you can find a plugin that does what you need!

    One more IMPORTANT thing, for mp3 support, you need to install python-pymad, and for ogg python-pyvorbis
    Last edited by HighPlainsDrifter; February 16th, 2006 at 03:22 PM.

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest Quod Libet audio player

    Hi, i'm a noob and want to figure out how to actually install the Cover Plugin... There's just a textfile about that plugin, which i don't know what to do with , a little more detailed HOWTO install a plugin for newbies would be kind, cause those links are more confusing for me than helpfull

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest Quod Libet audio player

    Hello. I did the steps listed here for .18, when I try to run quodlibet I get this...

    abdi110@reforgotten:~$ quodlibet
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/local/bin/quodlibet", line 310, in ?
    import pygst
    ImportError: No module named pygst
    abdi110@reforgotten:~$

    I'm running gstream 8something, I went looking for 10, downloaded, failed totally at configuring it...

    error: Need libxml2 for glib2 builds

    I've got a ton of packages through synaptic that seem like they'd be related to libxml2, but I'm still getting the same error. Any help in this would rock! Thanks.
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    Re: HOWTO: Latest Quod Libet audio player

    I have Quod Libet .18 running fine, man I love this music player. Your problem is indeed gstreamer, Quod Libet won't work with .8. I checked my libs, and as far as xml2 goes, I have libxml2, libxml2-utils, python2.4-libxml2, and python-libxml2. Hope that helps.

    Edit:
    Also check out this page, it might help
    http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/.../GStreamer0.10
    Last edited by barebones; March 27th, 2006 at 03:25 AM.

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest Quod Libet audio player

    hi,
    I got gstream 10 working in breezy all u have to do is open up /etc/apt/sources.list
    and change all the instances of breezy to dapper then in synaptic reload the package listing
    then install the following 3 packges
    gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
    gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
    python-gst0.10
    after they get installed change all the instances of dapper back to breezy

    Stiill there is this error for me...
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/local/bin/quodlibet", line 309, in ?
    import gtk
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ?
    from _gtk import *
    ImportError: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden

    PS: How do we uninstall it
    First they ignore you...
    then they laugh at you...
    then they fight you...
    then you win.
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    Re: HOWTO: Latest Quod Libet audio player

    I should have google sorry
    the problem is solved like this:
    File "/usr/bin/gnome-software-properties", line 28, in ?

    import gtk

    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ? from _gtk import *

    ImportError: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden

    But it's already solved by people at ubuntu stuff, as this article explains the problem is on the libfreetype6 package, to solve it just add dapper on your sources.list with

    deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted

    and then do the following command:

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libfreetype6

    Then your system will continue to work normally, don't forget to remove the dapper repository from your sources.list, future updates of that non stable release can break your system!
    First they ignore you...
    then they laugh at you...
    then they fight you...
    then you win.
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    Re: HOWTO: Latest Quod Libet audio player

    By the sound of it, you've got it running and therefor won't ever want to uninstall it , but if you do decide to, I think going to the directory where you extracted your quod libet files to and doing one of these

    Code:
    sudo make uninstall
    will uninstall it.

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest Quod Libet audio player

    Quote Originally Posted by barebones
    By the sound of it, you've got it running and therefor won't ever want to uninstall it , but if you do decide to, I think going to the directory where you extracted your quod libet files to and doing one of these

    Code:
    sudo make uninstall
    will uninstall it.
    chinna@ubuntu:/opt/quodlibet-0.17.1$ sudo make uninstall
    Password:
    make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.
    chinna@ubuntu:/opt/quodlibet-0.17.1$

    First they ignore you...
    then they laugh at you...
    then they fight you...
    then you win.
    -- our Father of Nation... Gandhi

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest Quod Libet audio player

    Worked perfectly, thanks

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest Quod Libet audio player

    Pranith,
    You need to be in the folder where you extracted quod libet files and ran the inital make install from. This is probabily something like ~/quodlibet-0.17.1

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