Re: [orca-list] eventually accessible music player with great features - Exaile

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

I will try it this weekend.  I've been wondering of something that did all
of this was available.

Thanks for sharing,

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Vojtech Polášek
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 11:09 AM
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Subject: [orca-list] eventually accessible music player with great features
- Exaile

Hi,
Have you been looking for music player software which can manage large music
library, have support for static and smart playlists, supports plugins and
is fully accessible?
I have and I found. I tried several players - Audacious, Clementine, Listen,
Guayadeque, Banshee, Rhythmbox, songbird... But I find this player the best
one. Developers are responsive and happy to add accessibility fixes.
Here is the snippet from package description:

Exaile is a media player which 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 support, and optional iPod support (assuming you have
python-gpod  installed).
 
 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.
 
 Exaile aims to be similar to AmaroK, but uses Python and GTK+.

I find the player very accessible, - I have added my music collection and
created a smart playlist.
Smart playlist allows you to add songs based on certain criteria. For
example you can add just songs whose mp3 tag title contains love or just
songs from certain years... However, this depends on good mp3 tagging.
Exaile can help with this and it can use powerful tag editor Exfalso.
I haven't tried adding a radio station, but I will delve into this later.
Exaile has good cli interface, so you can assign various global keyboard
shortcuts to numerous actions.
But the most important thing is, that developers know something about
accessibility and are open for suggestions. In current version (3. 3. 0
dev), randomization of playlists is not accessible, but a bug is already
opened and thing will be hopefuly solved quickly.
Try it and let me and developers know, what you think.
Vojta
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