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| − | 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, and guitar tablature features of Exaile. | + | 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, and guitar tablature features of Exaile. |
Pacman -Sy gnome-python-extras libgtkhtml | Pacman -Sy gnome-python-extras libgtkhtml | ||
Revision as of 08:14, 18 May 2007
Contents
Description
Exaile is a music player utilizing the GTK+ toolkit. Features include:
- Retrieval of album art, lyrics, artist/album information (via Wikipedia), and guitar tabs (via fretplay.com)
- Tabbed playlists
- iPod Support
- Last.fm support
- SHOUTcast directory browser
- Track blacklisting
Installation
Exaile is available in Arch's community repository. To enable the community repository, it must be uncommented in /etc/pacman.conf ]
#[community] # Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first #Include = /etc/pacman.d/community
Exaile can then be installed using Pacman
Pacman -Sy exaile
Enabling cover art, lyrics, and guitar tablature
While installing Exaile via Pacman will also install any needed runtime dependencies, two additional packages (gnome-python-extras libgtkhtml) will be needed to enable the cover art, lyrics, and guitar tablature features of Exaile.
Pacman -Sy gnome-python-extras libgtkhtml
Problems
Exaile 0.29 Album Art
On May 18th, 2007 Amazon has updated their ECS API to 4.0. Exaile fetches album art from amazon and this update has cause the inability of Exaile <=0.29 to retrieve album art. A patch which restores the ability to fetch album art from Amazon has been provided on Exaile's website with instructions on how to apply the patch. This issue has already been addressed in Exaile's SVN.