Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Exaile 0.2.9b on Windows

If you've ever used Amarok, you probably know why so many people love it so much. My only problem with Amarok is their lack of support for Gnome (can't blame 'em, it was written in Qt for KDE).

That's where the Exaile project comes in. It's still a little rough and isn't as mature as Amarok, but it's making progress. I use it all the time when I'm on my Linux desktop, but sometimes I'm forced to use Windows. There are plenty of fine music players out there, but none that I can find are as extensive as Amarok (and eventually Exaile) are.

Since Exaile is written in Python and written in GTK+, I figured getting it to run on Windows wouldn't be too difficult. I finally got it to work (barely), but IANAPP. Maybe someone will come along and continue what I started, maybe I'll finally learn Python, or maybe someone in the Exaile project will allow extensions using Ruby.

Here are the screenshots for Exaile Win32 0.2.9b:

  • Running Exaile Win32 from the command line
  • Exaile Win32 Splash Screen
  • Exaile Win32 First Run
  • Setting options in Exaile Win32 to show system tray icon
  • Adding songs to the playlist
  • Using the system tray icon to start playback
  • The OSD works
  • Right clicking on the track
  • Viewing track information
  • About page for Exaile Win32 0.2.9b
  • Album art is still a little screwy
  • The graceful exit
  • And we're back to the command line

3 comments:

Kreuger J. Burns said...

Can you please provide instructions for how you got it to work? I have no idea where to begin

Anonymous said...

plz!

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