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

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

I did try it out.
For me, adjusting the equalizer was the most striking feature amongst 
all other mentioned to be accessible.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Saturday 22 September 2012 12:14 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> 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 PolÃÅek
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 11:09 AM
> To: orca-list; vinux-support googlegroups com; support accessiblefreedom org
> 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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