Exaile, another media player for Linux

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Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm scrobbling, support for many portable media players including iPods, internet radio such as shoutcast, and tabbed playlists.

To install Exaile in ubuntu, use the ubuntu repository :

Users of Ubuntu Karmic or Jaunty can optionally use this repository. Add the appropriate line to your /etc/apt/sources.list or via System–>Administration–>Software Sources

gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

or go to System–>Administration–>Software Sources and copy/past the ligne below

For Karmic:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu karmic main

For Jaunty:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu jaunty main

Then add the verification key by typing the command :

gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /tmp/.exaile.keyring --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv   B79BBC58DE219687E584187AC174A7B143CBFCC0
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /tmp/.exaile.keyring --export --armor  B79BBC58DE219687E584187AC174A7B143CBFCC0 | sudo apt-key add -
rm /tmp/.exaile.keyring

Then type this command

sudo apt-get update

Then install exaile :

sudo apt-get install exaile

To install exaile for other package please download the file that correspond to your operating system ( rpm package , source…) from this link

Links :

• http://www.exaile.org/

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