Exaile
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A music player and manager written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, Last.fm scrobbling, support for tabbed playlists, many portable media players, internet radio such as shoutcast.
Name | Exaile |
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| Overall rating | 3.5/5 2 ratings |
| Excerpt | A music player and manager written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, Last.fm scrobbling, support for tabbed playlists, many portable media players, internet radio such as shoutcast. |
| Pros | |
| Cons | |
| Reviewed version | 0.3.2.2 (Ubuntu 11.10) |
| Player | |
| ReplayGain | Yes usual options |
| Transitions | - Only using unstable "unified" sound engine |
| Gapless | - Only using unstable "unified" sound engine |
| Equalizer | Yes Presets & Custom |
| Navigator | |
| Mode de navigation | TreeView (Limited to Artist, Album, Genre/Artist, Genre/Album, Year/Artist, Year/Album, Artist/Year-Album) |
| File | Yes |
| Cover Navigator | Yes |
| Local Library | |
| Multiple folders | Yes |
| Watch folders | No |
| Statistics | playCounter, lastPlayed, added, rating |
| Playlists | |
| Playlists | Yes |
| Smart | Yes |
| Dynamic | - No options !? |
| Queue | No |
| Tags | |
| Editor | Yes |
| id3 version | 2.4 |
| Auto tag tools | - Only convert first letter uppercase |
| Scrobbler | |
| Last.fm | Yes plugin |
| Libre.fm | Yes plugin |
| Informations | |
| Lyrics | - Lyrics Fly only (does not work well) |
| Biography | No |
| Photos | No |
| Online sources | |
| Radio | Yes |
| Podcasts | No |
| Jamendo | Yes plugin |
| Magnatune | No |
| Last.fm | No |
| Libre.fm | No |
| Others | |
| Other features | |
| Plugins | Yes |
| Visualisations | No |
| Karaoke | Yes plugin |
| Exclusive | |
| Global shortcuts | Gnome multimedia shortcuts (plugin) |
| Ubuntu (gnome) integration | No Custom OSD |
| Other systems | |
| Windows | - dev |
| macOS | - dev |
| Technical details | |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Programming language | Python (GTK+) |
| Database | Exaile's custom binary file (~/.local/share/exaile/music.db) |
| Static Playlists | |
| Dynamic Playlists | |
| Smart Playlists | |
| Audio Engine | gstreamer. What is "Unified" one ? ==> TBD !!! |
| id3 library | ==> TBD !!! |
| Distribution | |
| Ubuntu software-center | Yes |
| Ubuntu one-click install | apt://exaile |
| External Information | |
| Website | exaile.org |
| Wikipedia | wikipedia.org/... |
| Ubuntu-fr | ubuntu-fr.org/... |
User reviews and comments
Nice player but yet missing basic features.