https://wiki.archlinux.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Mclang&feedformat=atomArchWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T12:59:36ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.41.0https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Exaile&diff=32371Exaile2007-11-12T17:13:42Z<p>Mclang: /* Installation */</p>
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<div>[[Category: Audio/Video (English)]]<br />
=Description=<br />
[http://www.exaile.org/ Exaile] is a music player written in python that uses the GTK+ toolkit. Exaile is released under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html/|GPL] license. Features include:<br />
*Retrieval of album art, lyrics, artist/album information (via Wikipedia), and guitar tabs (via fretplay.com)<br />
*Tabbed playlists<br />
*iPod Support <br />
*Last.fm support<br />
*SHOUTcast directory browser <br />
*Track blacklisting<br />
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=Installation=<br />
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Exaile is available in [[Official Repositories|Arch's community repository]]. To enable the community repository, it must be uncommented in /etc/pacman.conf:<br />
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[community]<br />
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first<br />
Include = /etc/pacman.d/community<br />
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Exaile can then be installed using [[Pacman]]:<br />
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pacman -Sy exaile<br />
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If You use alsa and want to use alsasink instead of the default one, install gstreamer-alsa also:<br />
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pacman -S gstreamer0.10-alsa<br />
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This may solve problem if no sound is heard after installation and also when trying to play several sources simultaneously.<br />
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=Enabling cover art, lyrics, and guitar tablature=<br />
While installing Exaile via Pacman will also install any needed runtime dependencies, two additional packages ([http://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=gnome-python-extras gnome-python-extras] & [http://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=libgtkhtml libgtkhtml]) will be needed to enable the cover art, lyrics, guitar tablature, and wiki features of Exaile.<br />
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pacman -Sy gnome-python-extras libgtkhtml<br />
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=Problems=<br />
==Exaile 0.2.9 Album Art==<br />
On May 18th, 2007 [http://www.amazon.com Amazon] has updated their ECS API. This update has cause the inability of Exaile <=0.2.9 to retrieve album art. A patch which restores the ability to restore album art retrieval from Amazon has been provided on [http://www.exaile.org/ Exaile's website] along with instructions on how to apply the patch. This issue has already been addressed in Exaile's SVN.<br />
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==Playing audio CDs==<br />
Exaile requires 'python-cddb' to play audio cd's. The correct package for this is [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=3717&O=0&L=0&C=0&K=cddb&SB=n&SO=a&PP=25&do_MyPackages=0&do_Orphans=0&SeB=ndcddb-py/ cddb-py], located in the AUR. NOT pycddb which is available through pacman. The [http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cddb-py/cddb-py/PKGBUILD PKGBUILD] needs the line "arch=('i686')" added to build, and the license line is empty, although it doesn't effect the build.</div>Mclang