Exaile media player
 

I stumbled on this by accident today, and found no references when searching here.

Anyone familiar with this new app in progress, Exaile?

http://madabar.com/techblog/wp-conte...o_20070703.png

http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/07/...port-progress/

Re: Exaile media player
 

No, but it sure looks nifty.

Ooh, and the original desktop version features Audioscrobbler support and a DAAP plugin. I'll refrain from holding my breath, but it would sure be nice to see such things make it into this port.

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I'm amazed there's been no prior mention of it here, given the number of regulars interested in multimedia...

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I read about it a while back, but there were no .deb packages available. It looks like there might be one soon, though. ;)

-T.

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From the looks of the desktop version, I think I'll be liking it. :D

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It's basically a bad GTK ripoff of KDE/QT's Amarok.

It's one of many, many reasons I wished Maemo was based on QT instead of GTK, which is such a mess on so many levels.

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Aw, thanks for the letdown zero. :p

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At least they picked a good player to base themselves off of, as Amarok is pretty much the best music player out there, free software or not. Amarok was one of the reasons I was hoping to get a full KDE installed on the N800, however it wasn't compiled and the full KDE was suboptimal, even after I figured out a few things to make it better.

Oh well.

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One can't deny the coolness of Amarok, though, so I'm keeping my hopes up! :p

-T.

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From the Exaile.org werbsite.

"Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.

In addition, Exaile also includes a built-in SHOUTcast directory browser, tabbed playlists (so you can have more than one playlist open at a time), blacklisting of tracks (so they don't get scanned into your library), downloading of guitar tablature from fretplay.com, and submitting played tracks on your iPod to Last.fm."