2026-03-21T03:38:46+00:00 http://exaile.github.io Exaile Developer Team exaile-devel@googlegroups.com 2026-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2026/03/21/Exaile-4.2.2-beta1-released <p>Exaile 4.2.2-beta1 has been released.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.2-release-notes">Release notes</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.2.2-beta1">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2025-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2025/12/14/Exaile-4.2.1-released <p>Exaile 4.2.1 has been released.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.2-release-notes">Release notes</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.2.1">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2025-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2025/11/13/Exaile-4.2.1-beta1-released <p>Exaile 4.2.1-beta1 has been released.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.2-release-notes">Release notes</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.2.1-beta1">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2025-10-20T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2025/10/20/Exaile-4.2.0-released <p>Exaile 4.2.0 has been released.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.2-release-notes">Release notes</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.2.0">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2025-10-13T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2025/10/13/Exaile-4.2.0-alpha1-released <p>Exaile 4.2.0-alpha1 has been released.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.2-release-notes">Release notes</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.2.0-alpha1">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2025-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2025/05/24/Exaile-4.1.4-released <p>Exaile 4.1.4 has been released.</p> <p>This release fixes some issues and adds some new functionality.</p> <ul> <li>Bugfix: .desktop &amp; appdata generation (#957)</li> <li>Improvement: Support GIRepository-3.0 (#963)</li> <li>Improvement: Update appdata.xml</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">Release notes with more details</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.1.4">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2025-01-03T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2025/01/03/Exaile-4.1.4-beta1-released <p>Exaile 4.1.4-beta1 has been released.</p> <p>This release fixes some issues and adds some new functionality.</p> <ul> <li>Bugfix: Exaile stopped playing at end of queue instead of continuing the last playlist (#904)</li> <li>Bugfix: xl/common: open_file_directory: Don’t error if passed a root directory</li> <li>Bugfix: Don’t remove tracks twice during scan (#917)</li> <li>Bugfix: Create really unique engine names to prevent PulseAudio from remember last volume set (#913)</li> <li>Bugfix: Queue page breaks when all tracks is removed (#919)</li> <li>Bugfix: Library scan freezes when scanning corrupt wav files (#938)</li> <li>Bugfix: Disable track fading when playing track without known length (#942)</li> <li>Bugfix: Queue repeats first two tracks over and over again (#946)</li> <li>Usability: Fix Settings &gt; Playback &gt; Fade spinner displacement (#908)</li> <li>Improvement: Bump pyinstaller from 5.7 to 5.13.1 in /tools/installer</li> <li>Improvement: generate-completion: Replace pipes.quote with shlex.quote (compatibility to Python 3.13)</li> <li>Improvement: Replace AU metadata parser (compatibility to Python 3.13)</li> <li>Improvement: added support for webm videos in files panel (#940)</li> <li>Plugins: <ul> <li><strong>shutdown</strong>: <ul> <li>New option just to close Exaile instead of shut down all (#900)</li> <li>Add preferences for activation by default and timeout (#911)</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>customcollectionorders</strong>: New plugin to add custom orders to the collection panel (#899)</li> <li><strong>history</strong>: Several improvements (#925)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">Release notes with more details</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.1.3">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2023-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2023/08/03/Exaile-4.1.3-released <p>Exaile 4.1.3 has been released.</p> <p>This release fixes some issues and adds some new functionality.</p> <ul> <li>Adding support for tagging aac files with id3 tags</li> <li>Change flac/ogg metadata handling for bpm and comment</li> <li>Experimental: Save star ratings to media files</li> <li>Track start and end is now triggered also for streams</li> <li>AppData files now uses more translations</li> <li>Added preference to remove a track from queue after playing</li> <li>Plugin handling <ul> <li>Users can override built-in plugins with newer versions and remove the overrides as well</li> <li>Users can remove custom installed plugins via plugin manager</li> </ul> </li> <li>BerkeleyDB is used instead of bsddb, if available</li> <li>Plugins: <ul> <li><strong>cd</strong>: Back again</li> <li><strong>icecast</strong>: Back again</li> <li><strong>bpm</strong>: Confirmation on manually setting the bpm can be disabled</li> <li><strong>winmmkeys</strong>: Now using pynput</li> <li><strong>lyricsmania</strong>: First line of lyrics is shown</li> <li><strong>streamripper</strong>: custom user agent and event handling</li> <li><strong>lyricwiki:</strong> Removed</li> <li><strong>jamendo</strong>: removed</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">Release notes with more details</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.1.3">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2023/04/01/Exaile-4.1.3-beta3-released <p>Exaile 4.1.3-beta3 has been released.</p> <p>This development release fixes some issues and adds some new functionality.</p> <ul> <li>Bugfix: Missing module pynput on Windows</li> <li>Bugfix: Tags could not be written in some situations</li> <li>Bugfix: Not playing streams on Windows</li> <li>Plugins: <ul> <li><strong>bpm</strong>: Confirmation on manually setting the bpm can be disabled</li> <li><strong>lyricsmania</strong>: First line of lyrics is shown</li> <li><strong>icecast</strong>: Caching of stations on Windows</li> <li><strong>streamripper</strong>: custom user agent and event handling</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">Release notes</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.1.3-beta3">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2023-03-03T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2023/03/03/Exaile-4.1.3-beta1-released <p>Exaile 4.1.3-beta2 has been released.</p> <p>This development release fixes some issues and adds some new functionality.</p> <ul> <li>BerkeleyDB is used instead of bsddb, if available</li> <li>Some improvements to playlists view and query view</li> <li>Imporved Plugin handling <ul> <li>Users can override built-in plugins with newer versions and remove the overrides as well</li> <li>Users can remove custom installed plugins via plugin manager</li> </ul> </li> <li>Added preference to remove a track from queue after playing</li> <li>AppData files now uses translations</li> <li>Experimental: Read from and write rating to audio file metadata</li> <li>Plugins: <ul> <li><strong>cd:</strong> Working again and now using libdiscid and musicbrainz</li> <li><strong>icecast</strong>: Working again</li> <li><strong>winmmkeys</strong>: Now using pynput</li> </ul> </li> <li>Exaile is now available on FlatHub</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">Release notes</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.1.3-beta2">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2022-08-09T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2022/08/09/Exaile-4.1.2-released <p>Exaile 4.1.2 has been released.</p> <p>This stable release fixes some issues and adds some new functionality.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">Release notes</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.1.2">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2022-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2022/02/25/Exaile-4.1.2-beta1-released <p>Exaile 4.1.2-beta1 has been released.</p> <p>This development release fixes some issues and adds many new translated strings and one new plugin.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">Release notes</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.1.2-beta1">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2021-02-14T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2021/02/14/Exaile-4.1.1-released <p>Exaile 4.1.1 has been released.</p> <p>This release fixes Python 3.6 compatibility and some minor issues.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">Release notes</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.1.1">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2021-02-14T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2021/02/14/Exaile-4.1.0-released <p>Exaile 4.1.0 has been released.</p> <p>This is the first Exaile release that uses Python 3, something we’ve wanted to do since more than 8 years ago! To be fair, one of the biggest hurdles was that we had to upgrade or change dependencies at the same time, including the GTK/PyGObject/GStreamer triple upgrade that happened in Exaile 4.0.0. Still, this is a big upgrade that we’re happy to present.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">Release notes</a>, containing lots of information about the current release.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/tag/4.1.0">Downloads</a> (source code and Windows installer).</p> 2021-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2021/01/08/Exaile.4.1.0-rc1-released <p>This is a development release of Exaile that works on Python 3.</p> <p>Release notes are available <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">on the wiki</a>.</p> <p>Download the <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">latest Exaile releases on GitHub</a>.</p> 2020-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2020/11/22/Exaile.4.1.0-beta1-released <p>This is a development release of Exaile that works on Python 3 (specifically, 3.6 or above).</p> <p>Release notes are available <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.1-release-notes">on the wiki</a>.</p> <p>Download the <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">latest Exaile releases on GitHub</a>.</p> 2020-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2020/01/14/Exaile.4.0.2-released <p>Note that there is no 4.0.1 release due to a mistake.</p> <p>Changes since 4.0.0:</p> <ul> <li>Fixed Unicode errors on the tracklist view</li> <li>Fixed icon display on Plasma/Wayland</li> <li>Translation updates</li> </ul> <p>Download the <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">latest Exaile releases on Github</a>.</p> 2019-06-06T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2019/06/06/Exaile.4.0.0-released <p>More than four years after the last Exaile 3.4.5 release, we’re happy to announce that Exaile 4.0.0 “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good">Perfect is the enemy of good</a>” has been released!</p> <h3 id="about-the-codename">About the codename</h3> <p>It has been a <em>really</em> long time since the previous release, and if we’re honest a 4.0 release should have happened a long time ago. Exaile continues to be a mature, stable audio player, and continues to do the things we want it to do, well. Thank you to our longtime users who have continued to report bugs and make fixes, and to everyone who contributed and made this release possible.</p> <p>We’re really excited about a new capability to automatically build releases without developer intervention, and we expect that future releases will be much more frequent as Exaile development occurs.</p> <h3 id="about-the-release">About the release</h3> <p>Visually, longtime users will recognize Exaile 4.0.0 as the latest iteration of Exaile, as it will feel very similar to previous releases. However, internally 4.0.0 is a significant change from 3.4.5! The biggest change in Exaile 4 is that it uses GTK+ 3 and GStreamer 1. Existing users are strongly recommended to upgrade because GStreamer 0.10, used in earlier versions, is unmaintained and may contain security issues.</p> <p>There are far too many improvements and bugfixes to mention here. Please refer to our <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.0-release-notes">4.0.0 Release notes</a> on Github for details.</p> <p>Download the <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">latest Exaile releases on Github</a>.</p> 2019-05-25T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2019/05/25/Exaile-4.0.0-rc5-released <p>4.0.0 will come next weekend unless there are more bugs</p> <ul> <li>Fixed playlist column editing click/drag issues</li> <li>F2 now also triggers track tag editing</li> <li>Fix accelerators issue that caused bug in audioscrobbler plugin</li> <li>Remove AWN plugin</li> <li>Windows installer: Upgrade to GStreamer 1.16, fix CI bugs</li> <li>Other minor bugs</li> <li>Some translation updates</li> </ul> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">Exaile releases on Github</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.0-release-notes">Release notes</a> (which will continue to be updated until the 4.0 final release)</li> </ul> 2019-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2019/05/11/Exaile-4.0.0-rc4-released <p>So many fixes and enhancements!</p> <ul> <li>ipconsole: Don’t swallow ImportErrors</li> <li>Equalizer: save present correctly</li> <li>Fix unicode issue in saved playlists</li> <li>Fix rating setting in playlists</li> <li>Fix SmartPlaylists with timestamps</li> <li>Improved support for AlbumArtist: collection pane, playlist column, track properties</li> <li>Build automation: releases are now built automatically by Travis and Appveyor (thanks @X0rg for all the work!)</li> <li>Moodbar improvements</li> <li>Many tags are now directly editable in the playlist view</li> <li>Drop support for HAL and UDisks v1</li> <li>Many translation updates</li> <li>Many minor fixes and enhancements</li> </ul> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">Exaile releases on Github</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.0-release-notes">Release notes</a> (which will continue to be updated until the 4.0 final release)</li> </ul> 2018-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2018/09/22/Exaile-4.0.0-rc3-released <p>Various important bugfixes:</p> <ul> <li>Fix cairo issues on pygobject 3.30</li> <li>Fix issues reading tags when tagless media are in a collection</li> <li>Plugin updates for DAAP/Last.fm</li> <li>Fix bugs in parsing track streams</li> <li>SmartPlaylist bug with empty collection</li> </ul> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">Exaile releases on Github</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.0-release-notes">Release notes</a> (which will continue to be updated until the 4.0 final release)</li> </ul> 2018-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2018/09/01/Exaile-4.0.0-rc2-released <p>This release addresses issues reported with the Windows installer.</p> <ul> <li>Exclude WASAPI plugin from Windows installer</li> <li>DAAP fixes</li> <li>Add random shuffle mode</li> </ul> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">Exaile releases on Github</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.0-release-notes">Release notes</a> (which will continue to be updated until the 4.0 final release)</li> </ul> 2018-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2018/07/02/Exaile-4.0.0-rc1-released <p>This release addresses issues reported with the Windows installer.</p> <ul> <li>Reduce size of Windows installer</li> <li>Fix dependency issue on Windows</li> </ul> <p>Additionally, there are a lot of new strings in Exaile 4.0, so translation contributions would be very welcome! To anyone interested in helping out, have a look at the <a href="https://exaile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/contributing.html#translating-exaile">translation guide in our documentation</a> and feel free to ask if you have issues.</p> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">Exaile releases on Github</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.0-release-notes">Release notes</a> (which will continue to be updated until the 4.0 final release)</li> </ul> 2018-06-27T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2018/06/27/Exaile-4.0.0rc0-released <p>This release comes highly recommended with a slew of minor fixes including:</p> <ul> <li>Add preference to tell Gtk to use dark theme</li> <li>Drag and drop fixes</li> <li>Use Gst.DeviceMonitor on Windows</li> </ul> <p>We expect to do a final 4.0 release shortly!</p> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">Exaile releases on Github</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.0-release-notes">Release notes</a> (which will continue to be updated until the 4.0 final release)</li> </ul> 2018-03-14T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2018/03/14/Exaile-4.0.0-beta3-released <p>We’re almost to 4.0!</p> <p>This release comes highly recommended:</p> <ul> <li>Massive performance fixes – Exaile can work with collections of over 50000 files now</li> <li>Drag and drop fixes</li> <li>Way too many other fixes (<a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/compare/4.0.0-beta2...4.0.0-beta3">click here for details</a>)</li> </ul> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">Exaile releases on Github</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.0-release-notes">Release notes</a> (which will continue to be updated until the 4.0 final release)</li> <li>Help fix things! <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/milestone/2">4.0 Milestone on github</a></li> </ul> 2017-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2017/06/15/Exaile-4.0.0-beta2-released <p>This release comes highly recommended:</p> <ul> <li>Forces usage of bsddb/bsddb3 for the music database (to fix msys2 issues on Windows)</li> <li>Various minor fixes (<a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/compare/4.0.0-beta1...4.0.0-beta2">click here for details</a>)</li> </ul> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases">Exaile releases on Github</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.0-release-notes">Release notes</a> (which will continue to be updated until the 4.0 final release)</li> <li>Help fix things! <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/milestone/2">4.0 Milestone on github</a></li> </ul> 2017-05-23T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2017/05/23/Exaile-4.0.0-beta1-released <p>Finally.</p> <p>Even though this is tagged a beta, it has a significant number of fixes, no longer requires GStreamer 0.10 or GTK2, and should be pretty stable. Try it out, let us know how it works. No OSX install for now, too many issues left to resolve.</p> <p>Release notes at https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/Exaile-4.0-release-notes, will continue to be updated until 4.0 final release.</p> <p>https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases</p> 2015-05-18T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2015/05/18/Exaile-upgrade-gstreamer-gtk <p>GStreamer 0.10 has been obsolete for a long time now, and with the <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/05/msg00335.html">impending removal of 0.10 from Debian</a> we decided that it would make sense to upgrade. PyGI for GStreamer 1.x is not compatible with GTK2, so we’re upgrading to GTK3 at the same time. We’re optimistic that the Exaile experience will be better than ever after these upgrades.</p> <p>Due to the amount of work required, we’re suspending work on non-critical bugs on the 3.4.x series until we’ve merged this into master.</p> <p>Right now, we need people interested in playing around with gtk/gstreamer to poke at Exaile interface, see what breaks, record bugs, and issue pull requests to fix bugs. A lot of the heavy lifting has been done already and it sorta works, but there’s still a lot left. Every little bit helps. If you want to mess with it, <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/tree/gi">check out the ‘gi’ branch on github</a>.</p> <p>At the moment, we’re tracking things using <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/wiki/PyGI-migration-tasklist-%28GTK3-GStreamer-1.x%29">this wiki page</a>. We’re also hanging out on IRC at various times.</p> <p>Once the bugs become much harder to find, we’ll make a release candidate available for users to try it out, and track bugs using the github issue tracker. With your help, optimistically we can get this done in a few weeks.</p> <p>Thanks for continuing to support Exaile!</p> 2015-04-27T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2015/04/27/Exaile-3.4.5-released <p>The Exaile development team is happy to announce the latest release of Exaile. This release fixes the following bugs, and contains a number of translation updates as well:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues/64">#64</a> - Errors loading Smart Playlists that filter based on a playlist</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues/65">#65</a> - Missing icon issue</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues/75">#75</a> - Disable equalizer by default</li> </ul> 2015-03-15T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2015/03/15/Exaile-3.4.4-released <p>The Exaile development team is happy to announce the latest release of Exaile. This release fixes the following bugs, and contains a number of translation updates as well:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues/54">#54</a> - If you installed Exaile by makefile, or in slightly nonstandard ways, translations wouldn’t actually work</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues?q=milestone%3A%22Exaile+3.4.4%22+is%3Aclosed">Various minor bugs</a></li> </ul> <p>And of course, you can look at the <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/compare/3.4.3...3.4.4">commit log</a> on github too.</p> 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2014/12/15/Exaile-3.4.3-released <p>This is a significant translations update for Exaile, with close to 100% translations available now for several languages. If you would like to contribute to the Exaile translation effort, translation tools are now being generously hosted by <a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/exaile/master/">hosted weblate</a>.</p> <p>Additionally, one minor bug was fixed:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues/19">#19</a> - Smart Playlists with criteria involving timestamps do not work</li> </ul> <p>Special thanks to @strebski for pointing out the translation problem, and providing a polish translation for Exaile. Additional thanks to the many translators who contributed to this release.</p> 2014-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2014/11/09/Exaile-3.4.2-released <p>Fixes the following bugs:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues/11">#11</a> - Exaile did not always update individual files when changed externally</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues/12">#12</a> - Add an option to ‘force rescan’ of files for users with misbehaving external tagger programs</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues/13">#13</a> - GroupTagger plugin: Potential tag loss when using externally modified files</li> </ul> <p>All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to this release, particularly users of the GroupTagger plugin.</p> 2014-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2014/11/01/Exaile-3.4.1-released <p>For those of you wanting to use Exaile on OSX Mavericks or Yosemite, this release is for you! Prior releases of Exaile did not work properly because of font issues in GTK. This release contains workarounds for that.</p> <p>There are other minor fixes too, check the commit log for details.</p> 2014-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2014/09/01/Exaile-3.4.0-released <p>After a year of work and 60+ bugfixes and improvements, the Exaile developers are happy to announce that Exaile 3.4.0 “we’re not dead yet” has been released!</p> <h3 id="about-the-codename">About the codename</h3> <p>Exaile has existed since 2006, and had a lot of rapid development until 2010 or so. At that point, development slowed down considerably, but since 2012 development has continued at a slow but steady rate. A number of you have asked whether the project is dead yet – and the answer is a resounding <strong>NO</strong>. Exaile is a mature, stable audio player, and does much of what we want it to do, and does it well. The current development team uses Exaile on a regular basis, and will continue to add improvements and fix bugs as needed. To reflect this reality, the codename for this release is “we’re not dead yet”.</p> <h3 id="major-new-featuresbugfixes">Major new features/bugfixes</h3> <p>This release has fixed a lot of really annoying bugs and improved overall usability, while adding new plugins with new features. The full list of bugfixes/features can be viewed on <a href="https://launchpad.net/exaile/+milestone/3.4.0">launchpad</a>.</p> <h4 id="general">General</h4> <ul> <li>Audio output device can now be switched while playing songs</li> <li>Official support for OSX!</li> <li>Improved unicode support</li> <li>An option has been added to disallow playback while another song is playing (great for DJs)</li> <li>Linux: UDisks/UDisks2 support</li> <li>Covers: cover manager improvements, saving to disk</li> </ul> <h4 id="ui">UI</h4> <ul> <li>Playlists can be shown in multiple panes</li> <li>The left tab panels are now closable</li> <li>BPM counter plugin has better UI integration</li> </ul> <h4 id="enhanced-smart-playlists">Enhanced smart playlists</h4> <ul> <li>Create playlists based on other playlists</li> <li>Support for filtering over 20 different tag types</li> </ul> <h4 id="plugins">Plugins</h4> <ul> <li>A simpler plugin API is available (but the old one still works!)</li> <li>Plugin manager doesn’t show users potentially broken plugins anymore</li> <li>New plugins: console, Icecast Radio, lyricsmania, mono output, playlist analyzer, Soma.FM</li> <li>Broken/old plugins removed: lyricsfly, shoutcast</li> <li>Fixes/improvements for various plugins</li> </ul> <h4 id="windows">Windows</h4> <ul> <li>Improved bootup times for Windows</li> <li>Installer has support for 64-bit python</li> <li>Exaile restart doesn’t break</li> <li>Improved multimedia keys plugin</li> </ul> <p>Exaile 3.4 is in our opinion the best release of Exaile yet, and we hope that you like the new features as much as we do. Exaile is a truly cross-platform audio player, with downloads available for <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/download/3.4.0/exaile-3.4.0.tar.gz">Linux</a>, <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/download/3.4.0/exaile-3.4.0.exe">Windows</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/releases/download/3.4.0/exaile-3.4.0.dmg">OSX</a>. User and developer documentation is available at <a href="http://exaile.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">http://exaile.readthedocs.org/en/latest/</a>.</p> <h3 id="moving-to-github">Moving to github</h3> <p>As of today, the launchpad repositories are deprecated and source code in bazaar will no longer be updated. Our new home is on github, at <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile">https://github.com/exaile/exaile</a>. Please file all new bugs on the <a href="https://github.com/exaile/exaile/issues">issues tracker on github</a>. In the near future, we will try to move relevant bugs from launchpad to github, close out all the bugs on launchpad, and close the launchpad bug tracker. We look forward to your pull requests</p> 2014-08-30T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2014/08/30/Exaile-3.4.0-release-candidate-available <p>All of the bugs targeted for Exaile 3.4 have been closed, and 3.4.0 RC0 is now available for download from Launchpad. This has been a really stable beta release so far, and we’re really excited about getting this out! A final release will be done on Monday if there are no issues found.</p> 2014-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2014/07/06/Updated-plugin-development-guide-and-more <p>Exaile now has a <a href="http://exaile.readthedocs.org">read the docs site</a>! The docs include API information, an updated plugin development guide, and user installation notes. A lot of information has been migrated + updated from synic’s old bitbucket site for Exaile, and now lives with the Exaile source. We would love help updating this information, or any feedback you may have. Thanks!</p> 2014-07-05T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2014/07/05/Exaile-3.4.0-beta-released <p>An exaile 3.4 release has been a long time coming. There are a TON of new features and fixes that are present in this release – we’ll provide a highlights summary for the official 3.4 release. However, you can see the launchpad page for a complete list of the <a href="https://launchpad.net/exaile/+milestone/3.4.0">bugs fixed in 3.4</a>.</p> <p>Despite being labeled a ‘beta’, this release should be stable for most users. The main reason for labeling it a ‘beta’ is that there are still a number of important fixes/features we’d like to get out there, but there’s already so many features in that we want others to use.</p> <p>Please try it out and report any bugs that you may find! We’re hoping for a 3.4 final release by the end of the summer.</p> 2013-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2013/10/26/Exaile-3.3.2-released <p>The Exaile developers are happy to announce that Exaile 3.3.2 has been released!</p> <h3 id="highlights">Highlights</h3> <ul> <li>Tracks were sometimes selected incorrectly when searching a playlist</li> <li>Sometimes the main window wouldn’t appear when minimizing to the system tray</li> <li>More tags supported for MP4/M4A/FLAC/OGG files</li> <li>Locale bugs when executing –help</li> <li>Updated Windows installer dependency download versions</li> <li>Fixed plugins: librivox</li> </ul> <p>A source release + windows installer is available now at <a href="https://launchpad.net/exaile/+download">Launchpad</a>.</p> <p>Look for a 3.4 release to also happen later in Fall 2013.</p> 2012-11-15T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2012/11/15/Exaile-3.3.1-released <p>The Exaile developers are happy to announce that Exaile 3.3.1 has been released!</p> <h3 id="highlights">Highlights</h3> <ul> <li>Accessibility related fixes</li> <li>Dynamic playlists are now working correctly</li> <li>WMA files are properly supported now</li> <li>Playlist import is now more robust</li> <li>Internal tags (those starting with __) were clobbered when being restored to playlists, so things like ratings and other such things would disappear mysteriously. This is no longer the case.</li> <li>Fixed plugins: ContextInfo, mini-mode, osd, last.fm</li> </ul> <p>A source release + windows installer is available now at <a href="https://launchpad.net/exaile/+download">Launchpad</a>.</p> 2012-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2012/10/06/Music-categorization-using-Exaile <p>One of our developers has written a <a href="http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2012/10/06/use-the-grouping-tag-to-organize-your-audio-files-with-exaile-3-3-0/">blog post</a> about quickly categorizing your music using one of the new plugins for Exaile 3.3.0 called ‘GroupTagger’. Go check it out if you haven’t already.</p> 2012-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2012/09/22/Exaile-3.3.0-released <p>After a very long time we are very excited to announce that it is finally here: <strong>Exaile 3.3</strong>, code name “jump”. This release brings hundreds of fixes as well as a lot of new features.</p> <h3 id="the-version">The version</h3> <p>For this release the Exaile developers have agreed to finally drop the leading „0“ which has haunted us for a long time without apparent reason. And the sheer amount of changes which have gone into this release are reason enough for the version “jump” to 3.3. But aside from that our version scheme will not change, so don’t expect version 21 anytime soon like with some browsers. ;-)</p> <h3 id="fixes-improvements-and-lots-of-new-features">Fixes, improvements and lots of new features</h3> <p>A lot of bugs have been fixed which have partially existed since ages. Aside from that improvements have happened throughout the whole player. And last but not least the new release spurs a considerable amount of new features. Among the most notable changes are:</p> <h4 id="general">General:</h4> <ul> <li>Lots of threading issues which resulted in hangs during playback and upon startup</li> <li>Sanitize passwords from stream URLs to keep them from being displayed, submitted and stored</li> <li>Asynchronous cover fetching</li> <li>Escape XML-critical characters for ASX and XSPF playlist export</li> <li>Improved import of media from drag drops</li> <li>Tracks and playlist import from and export to arbitrary locations (like network locations)</li> <li>Tracks are moved to the Trash by default if possible instead of directly deleting them</li> <li>Lots of improvements for running Exaile on Microsoft Windows including an installer</li> <li>Various other small changes to make things behave more natural</li> </ul> <h4 id="gui">GUI:</h4> <ul> <li>Revamped cover chooser (spinner as loading indicator<a href="#note-gtk220">¹</a>, thumbnail bar, cover details like source and size) and cover manager (better threading, faster, more progress indication, facelift)</li> <li>Implement automatic scrolling during drag operations</li> <li>Facelift and small improvements for the track properties dialog</li> <li>New button in the playlist notebook<a href="#note-gtk220">¹</a> (click for new playlist, drop something on it to pre-fill the new playlist)</li> <li>Ability to add arbitrary markers to the playback progress bar for jumping</li> <li>Ability to restore closed playlist tabs</li> <li>Completely new, provider-based menu system, some places not yet ported (allows for easy customization and extension of menus like e.g. rating and Last.fm Love/Unlove menu items)</li> <li>Playlist columns ported to the provider system</li> <li>Comments tag in the track properties and as playlist column</li> <li>New playlist column: scheduled playback time of tracks</li> <li>Add icons to the preferences dialogs and categories to the plugins list</li> <li>Option to hide the main track info pane or only the cover widget within</li> </ul> <h4 id="playlists">Playlists:</h4> <ul> <li>Completely rewritten playlist API (cleaner, more flexible and extensible, move and copy tracks arbitrarily between playlists)</li> <li>Intelligent playlist default naming (no duplicates, always takes free name slots)</li> <li>Allow for randomizing a selection of tracks instead of only the full playlist</li> <li>Playlist importers/exporters ported to the provider system (more flexible, easily extendable with additional formats)</li> <li>Enhanced playlist recognition upon import (fast type detection, file extension and slow type detection)</li> <li>Support relative paths in playlist import/export</li> </ul> <h4 id="dbus">DBus:</h4> <ul> <li>Method/CLI option to export the current playlist</li> <li>DBus service activation enabled</li> <li>Added method for pausing</li> <li>Added method/CLI option for formatted playback queries</li> </ul> <h4 id="tag-handling">Tag handling:</h4> <ul> <li>Support albumartist for MP3/MP4</li> <li>Properly read tags from files with non-ASCII names</li> <li>Properly read all available covers embedded in tags and keep their information</li> <li>Proper handling of an arbitrary amount of covers embedded in tags (cover fetching and track properties)</li> </ul> <h4 id="plugins">Plugins:</h4> <ul> <li>A-B Repeat: repeat segment of a track by placing two markers on the playback progress bar</li> <li>BPM Counter: manually set BPM per track</li> <li>Group Tagger: add custom labels to tracks and gather tracks by these labels (via smart playlist filters)</li> <li>History: keep history of played tracks and export them to a playlist</li> <li>Inhibit Suspend: prevent suspend on e.g. notebooks during playback</li> <li>Last.fm Loved Tracks: love/unlove tracks, see loved state of tracks</li> <li>Main Menu Button: moves the main menu into a single Chrome-like button</li> <li>Multimedia keys for Windows</li> <li>MusicBrainz Covers: adds MusicBrainz as cover source option</li> <li>OSD: formerly core, now completely rewritten with new options</li> <li>Preview Device: allows playing audio over a secondary device, useful for DJs</li> <li>Wikipedia: information about the current artist</li> <li>Various fixes and improvements for other plugins</li> </ul> <p>As usual, you can <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile/+bugs?field.status%3Alist=FIXRELEASED&amp;field.milestone%3Alist=29009&amp;field.omit_dupes=on">browse the full list</a> including all details on Launchpad. We hope you like the new release as much as we do. Don’t wait any longer and download 3.3 from our <a href="https://launchpad.net/exaile/+download">Launchpad downloads page</a>. The Windows installer will be added today or tomorrow.</p> <p>You are welcome to drop comments on #exaile or report <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile">bugs or feature requests</a>. We always strive to improve Exaile even further to make it one of the lightest and most usable players out there.</p> <p>Enjoy version 3.3.0 and watch out for even more hot stuff in future releases!</p> <p>¹ <small>Requires GTK 2.20 and PyGTK 2.22</small></p> 2012-09-15T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2012/09/15/Exaile-3.3.3-rc2-released <p>Due to some important Windows changes, especially the installer, the release of 3.3.0 is delayed for one week. Have fun with the RC2 instead.</p> <p>You can download the release candidate from our <a href="https://launchpad.net/exaile/+download">Launchpad downloads page</a>. Please <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile/+filebug">report any bugs you find</a> and help us make this a great release!</p> <p>The release of version 3.3.0 is currently slated for <del>September 21st, 2012</del> <ins>September 22nd, 2012</ins>, another delay due to imminent fixes and other things.</p> 2012-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2012/09/09/Exaile-3.3.0-rc1-released <p>At long last, a new version of Exaile will be released: <strong>3.3.0</strong>.</p> <p>With this release an unbelievable amount of 236 bugs have been fixed which include fixes as well as new features. A full explanation of the major fixes and releases will be published with the release, so for now refer to the <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile/+bugs?field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&amp;field.milestone%3Alist=29009&amp;field.omit_dupes=on">Launchpad bugs page</a> to see what has happened. Here’s a quick glimpse at what’s new:</p> <ul> <li>Completely rewritten playlist views and internals</li> <li>Improved cover tag handling and cover management</li> <li>More providers: playlist columns, application menus and playlist import/export</li> <li>Playlist import from and export to arbitrary locations (including SFTP, etc.)</li> <li>Vastly improved Win32 support including a Windows installer</li> <li>Plugin updates and new plugins: A-B Repeat, BPM Counter, Group Tagger, History, Inhibit Suspend, Last.fm Loved Tracks, Main Menu Button, Multimedia keys for Windows, MusicBrainz Covers, OSD (formerly core), Preview Device and Wikipedia</li> <li>Lots of threading fixes for more stability</li> <li>Lots of small but highly desired UI changes like the new playlist button and more love for some of the dialogs.</li> </ul> <p>Packagers please note the version upgrade for Python from 2.5 to 2.6. And while PyGTK 2.17 is still fully supported, PyGTK version 2.22 and GTK 2.20 are recommended to have the full feature set available.</p> <p>You can download the release candidate from our <a href="https://launchpad.net/exaile/+download">Launchpad downloads page</a>. Please <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile/+filebug">report any bugs you find</a> and help us make this a great release! The release of version 3.3.0 is currently slated for September 14th, 2012.</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> The windows installer can now be downloaded from our <a href="https://launchpad.net/exaile/+download">Launchpad downloads page</a>. The installer is still pretty new and may have bugs, but it has been verified to work on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 SP1. Please, please report any bugs you find so we can fix them!</p> 2012-08-24T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2012/08/24/We-found-a-new-team-leader <p>After a few months of deliberating, I have decided on a new leader.</p> <p>Exaile’s own Mathias Brodala has taken the reigns. I expect good things!</p> <ul> <li>synic</li> </ul> 2012-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2012/05/10/Exaile-needs-a-team-leader <p>Exaile is currently in need of a team leader. synic no longer has time to run the show, so currently no one is doing it. If you have the time, are a python coder, and use Exaile, please contact synic.</p> 2011-07-18T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2011/07/18/Exaile-0.3.2.2-released <p>Exaile 0.3.2.2 is a bugfix release for 0.3.2. Notable fixes include:</p> <ul> <li>We are now capable of using the external bsddb3 module if distributions disable python2’s deprecated built-in bsddb support, as Arch Linux did recently.</li> <li>Compatibility with newer Ex Falso releases was restored to the Ex Falso plugin.</li> <li>Exaile no longer stops scanning when it encounters permissions errors</li> </ul> 2011-02-13T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2011/02/13/Exaile-0.3.2.1-released <p>Exaile 0.3.2.1 is a bugfix release for 0.3.2. A short list of notable fixes:</p> <ul> <li>The shoutcast plugin has been removed from the default install, as shoucast has changed their <span class="caps">API</span> and the new terms of service are not compatible with our license.</li> <li>The default lyrics provider was changed to lyricwiki, as lyricfly no longer works properly.</li> <li>A bug that prevented Exaile from running on very recent versions of pygobject was fixed.</li> <li>A bug preventing files from being added via the <span class="caps">CLI</span> was fixed.</li> <li>A <a href="https://launchpad.net/exaile/0.3.2/0.3.2.1">number of additional minor issues</a> were resolved.</li> </ul> 2010-06-25T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2010/06/25/Exaile-0.3.2-released <p>No new features since the rc, just a smattering of minor bugfixes.</p> <p>Get it from <a href="/downloads">our downloads page</a>.</p> 2010-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 http://exaile.github.io/2010/06/15/Exaile-0.3.2-rc1-released <p>This is a release candidate for 0.3.2. It should be stable enough for normal use, and we’ll follow it with the final version shortly.</p> <p>A quick look at what’s new in the 0.3.2 series:</p> <ul> <li>Improved support for covers embedded in ogg and flac files</li> <li>Gapless playback by default (via playbin2)</li> <li>Many dialogs replaced with gtk InfoBars</li> <li>Preference items that require a restart now prompt for it</li> <li>Vastly improved lyricsviewer plugin</li> <li>Drag and drop on the main cover display to set and retrieve covers</li> <li>Track counts in collection panel</li> <li>New tooltip for tray icon and minimode that displays cover and progress</li> <li>Custom playback sink support</li> <li>Display cover art when dragging from side panels</li> <li>Read-only support for Matroska tags…and of course, the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor enhancements.</li> </ul> <p>Packagers please note the version upgrades for PyGTK and PyGObject this release, 2.17 and 2.18 respectively are now mandatory.</p> <p>You can download the release candidate from our <a href="https://launchpad.net/exaile/+download">Launchpad downloads page</a>. Please <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile/+filebug">report any bugs you find</a> and help us make this a great release!</p>