Exaile Media Player
One of my favorite open source applications is Amarok, a music player with an intuitive interface that makes boring tasks such as organizing large music collections less troublesome. The only problem with Amarok is that it’s a KDE application and I’m a GNOME user. Although there’s nothing wrong with running KDE programs on GNOME, they take a long time to start, since they need to load the KDE libraries and components they depend on first. I’ve found a good alternative in Exaile, my new favorite media player for Linux.
Exaile is similar to Amarok, but it’s based on GTK+ (the GIMP Toolkit), the same GUI toolkit GNOME uses, and thus it loads almost instantly on GNOME and integrates nicely with it. The first impression the program makes is that it’s a clone of Amarok, at least from an interface point of view; if you’re an Amarok user, you’ll feel right at home.
I tried both the stable version, 0.26, and the beta 0.27, and didn’t have any stability problems with either. I recommend you install the beta version and report any bugs you find to help the project become even better.
I was glad to find a SUSE 10.1 rpm for exaile and it installed flawlessly (though being SUSE 10.1 package management, it took forever). I totally love Exaile. It’s kind of fugly-ish but still very nice, beats Banshee by a longshot (which kept messing up my tags and renaming everything to random names of other artists on my playlist).
Comment by Ray — January 9, 2007 @ 8:13 am
I love Exaile! But the main problem is the lack of an equalization tool to improve mp3 sound, like any other windoz music application (Winamp,etc)
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@Mato - I have exaile. It has an equalizer. Is that what you’re looking for? It even has presets with it. I am using exaile from one of ubuntu’s repos.
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