Exaile - new audio player, similar to Amarok, but for Gtk+

Naib · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:

emerged this (via the overlay) and I must say, I am very impressed, prefer this over BMPx atm
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avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

This looks pretty cool, im emerging it now. Amarok's missing a bunch of artwork, and it's always had a few bugs with album-art for me. Not to mention it isn't very convenient or consistent on my xfce desktop. Lets see if this player can compare.

bi3l · Apprentice Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 268 Location: France

If you want CDDB support, you can emerge cddb-py. This can be added to the ebuild using this patch:

juantxorena · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject:

New ebuild, with the dependency that bi3l suggest. Instead of using cddb useflag, I choose cdaudio useflag, because I have found that dev-python/cddb-py is needed for cd audio playback in general, not only for cddb support:

Lloeki · Guru Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 437 Location: France

I think there's a missing dependency or two here. I was reinstalling my system from scrath (went from x86 to amd64) and wanted to listen to some tunes. quickly, I set up overlay & emerged latest exaile, and... no sound with radios. no hintful message of any kind in console. out of the lue, I emerged a bunch of gst-plugins, and it worked. among which:
- media-plugins/gst-plugins-shout2
- media-plugins/gst-plugins-gnomevfs
which I think may be the two relevant ones leading to no radio sound. after that, it works like a charm.
I think there should be some use flag(s) for them. maybe 'radio' or 'webradio' which would take care of both? or separate ones (radio shoutcast? gnomevfs shoutcast?).
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juantxorena · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject:

You are right, but the only dependency needed is media-plugins/gst-plugins-gnomevfs, I can listen to radios without gst-plugins-shout2. I'll add it to the ebuild, but I don't think that we must use an useflag for this, because radio is an essential part for the program (there is a tab and preferences for this even without these dependencies).

I'll do a new ebuild also, a beta version for exaile-0.2.7 has been released, with some important upgrades, like plugins.

Just a question, do you use Gnome? I want to know if this programs is very gnome-dependant.
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juantxorena · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject:

I asked for this in #gentoo-sunrise, and a dev agreed that it shouldn't be an optional dependency because there is no way of deactivating radio playback in exaile. This is the conversation:

avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

This program has a looong way to go. Hopefully radio playback is an option, since I have never, and will never use it.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject:

Great player!

I'm using xfce so I was looking for a Amarok replacement and the most other GTK players were bringing way too much Gnome packages

(Listen, Rhythmbox, Banshee)...

juantxorena · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

Hello. I've writen this post in the exaile forums about the gnome-vfs stuff and the radio playback. The dev ask about the crash when gst-plugins-gnomevfs isn't installed. I have no time for anything this week, so any help about this will be welcome. If someone doesn't have an account in the exaile forums and/or doesn't want to make one, I can post the comments for him/her.
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Lloeki · Guru Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 437 Location: France

for me it did not crash without gnomevfs gst plugin, it just did nothing. but while trying, I was opening streams randomly one after another, hoping to find one that worked, and at some point, it froze. I then had to kill the python interpreter. I think that it crashes, but not always (not all streams?).
no such thing since I installed gnomevfs gst plugin.
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Eichi'sMom · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

new version 0.2.7b2 out now...i made a ebuild.. you can download it at

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134865

But it has a bad hack inside, couse portage dont know the b2 only _beta2

put the dev knows and will change this next version

juantxorena · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:

I have been waiting to make the ebuild because of the radio-gnomevfs stuff. The main dev of exaile says that he's going to make radio support optional, as Lloeki suggests, and probably as a plugin (there is a new plugin system in exaile, so please start writing tons of plugins!! and ebuilds for the plugins, if needed!!). This new "feature" is probably available in the SNV version.
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Xepher · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 39

I just switched to Exaile last week. I had been using Quod Libet, but I didn't like the way it required me to be in playlist view OR library view. I like having multiple playlists side by side with my library. I had a bug with the genre sorting in 27b2, posted the bug to the exaile tracker, and had a patch in less than 9 minutes. You don't get that anywhere else! I patched my own copy manually, then thought "WTF? Why don't I make an SVN Ebuild?" So here it is!

exaile-9999.ebuild

Insanity5902 · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:14 am Post subject:

there is one in bugzilla that covers just about all the deps 134865

The only one I notice the one in bugzilla missing is notify-python, which is also in bugzilla, and actually it needs to be made a use flag to disable the support for that plugin.
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juantxorena · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject:

The ebuild for the brand new exaile version, 0.2.7. I finally added gst-plugins-gnomevfs as a dependency, because it only add a couple of gnome dependencies. Also I added some useflags to reflect some plugins. The ebuild is called, of course, exaile-0.2.7. Please note that there is a patch that must be used :

Insanity5902 · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject:

I installed the beta2 of .27 and it had with a libnotify plugin. Even with it disabled it through up errors when starting up. I will install the .27 and see if the plugin is still there.
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juantxorena · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:56 am Post subject:

I've been looking after the gnome dependencies for those who doesn't use gnome. Here is the gnome dependenciy tree:

Daeluin · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 57 Location: lost

Using 2.7 from sunrise, at first I got a version_db python error I solved by wiping ~/.exaile/
However now I'm getting an error scanning/importing a directory:

JayJay78 · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 32

Hi Daeluin,

i have a similar problem. I moved the directory ~/.exaile to ~/.exaile.old for testing and it works. I must import my collection again.

JJ

Daeluin · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 57 Location: lost

nope. already had wiped that dir when the problem started.
wiped a few more times, but no luck.
thanks though.

Lloeki · Guru Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 437 Location: France

Daeluin, I experience the same issue as you. providing a single empty dir makes it 'scan' correctly, but really, what's the use...

I also have this problem: