Install Exaile 0.3.0.1 music manager/player in ubuntu

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.

Exaile 0.3.0.1 is a bugfix release for 0.3.0. It contains no new features, however it does fix several (14) bugs from 0.3.0. In particular:

• A severe bug preventing migration from 0.2.14 in certain installations was fixed. If you already have an 0.3.0 profile, you can start exaile with —force-import to overwrite your 0.3.0 profile with data from 0.2.14
• A bug causing volume to not restore properly when playback resume is enabled was fixed
• and several more.

Install Exaile in ubuntu
First,edit your /etc/apt/sources.list by this command:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the appropriate line to this file:
For ubuntu 9.04:

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

For ubuntu 9.10(Karmic):

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

Add gpg key:

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

and then type following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exaile

Now,you can launch exaile from Applications->Sound&Video->Exaile Music Player


If you’re interested in music manager,you may want to create plugins for exaile.Writing plugins for Exaile is easy,here for details.

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