Exaile Music Player version 3.3.0 Ubuntu's PPA

With no major release in more than 2 years, many thought Exaile, once a pretty popular music player (it was even the default Xubuntu music player), was dead. But it turns out that's not the case and a new version - 3.3.0 codenamed "jump" -, has been released a few days ago. Exaile, an application designed with Amarok 1.4 in mind, but for GTK, comes with many of KDE's Amarok 1.4 features, along with some extras. Since our last post on Exaile dates back to 2010, here's a quick features overview:

can handle large music libraries
tabbed playlists
plugins support which includes a huge list of plugins
cover fetching
CD playback, iPod and USB mass storage support
advanced tag editor
ReplayGain support
equalizer with presets
Moodbar integration
multimedia keys
lyrics fetching
dynamic playist
Last.fm support
many many other features

List of significant changes

Here's a list of the most important changes in the latest Exaile:

New / updated plugins: A-B Repeat, BPM Counter: manually set BPM per track, Group Tagger, History: keep history of played tracks and export them to a playlist, Inhibit Suspend, Last.fm Loved Tracks, Main Menu Button: moves the main menu into a single Chrome-like button, MusicBrainz Covers, OSD: completely rewritten with new options, Preview Device: allows playing audio over a secondary device, useful for DJs
Lots of threading issues which resulted in hangs during playback and upon startup have been fixed
Asynchronous cover fetching
Improved import of media from drag drops
New playlist column: scheduled playback time of tracks
Tracks and playlist import from and export to arbitrary locations (like network locations)
Revamped cover chooser and cover manager
Completely new, provider-based menu system
Completely rewritten playlist API (cleaner, more flexible and extensible, move and copy tracks arbitrarily between playlists)
Support relative paths in playlist import/export
Tag handling: support albumartist for MP3/MP4
Many UI tweaks and fixes
Lots of improvements made to Exaile for Windows, including an installer

PPA Repos

[sourcecode] sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install exaile exaile-plugin-contextinfo exaile-plugin-ipod exaile-plugin-moodbar exfalso [/sourcecode]