Exaile Commands Do It Better
Bang for buck, Amarok is the best music player/library manager on earth. But lately, since I’ve been flying Gnome, Xfce and other non-KDE-native environments, I’ve been using Exaile, just for the heck of it. It’s also nice to not have to load KDE libraries, just to play some music. Anyway, Exaile a good program. It’s come a damn long stretch since I first checked it out. It can handle large libraries and with every realease, closes the gap on features that make Amarok the best.
I’ve been using exaile, pretty much exclusively for about a year or more now. I’m not sure what took me so long but I just now ran ‘exaile –help‘ and got the command line arguments. Why didn’t I do this a year ago? I love command line music control. I don’t know if they’re any better, but to me, it’s always much more satisfying to execute tasks via command. Managing my playlist via command line makes it uber.
Usage: exaile.py [option...|uri]
Options:
-h, –help show this help message and exit
-d DIR, –duplicates=DIR
Finds and deletes all duplicate tracks (based on their
md5 sum)
-n, –next Play the next track
-p, –prev Play the previous track
-s, –stop Stop playback
-a, –play Play
-t, –play-pause Toggle Play or Pause
-q, –query Query player
–gui-query Show a popup of the currently playing track
–get-title Print the title of current track
–get-album Print the album of current track
–get-artist Print the artist of current track
–get-length Print the length of current track
–current-position Print the position inside the current track as a
percentage
-i VOL, –increase_vol=VOL
Increases the volume by VOL
-l VOL, –decrease_vol=VOL
Decreases the volume by VOL
–play-cd Start playing a CD
–new Start new instance
–set-rating=RATING Set rating for current song
–get-rating Get rating for current song
–settings=SETTINGS Settings Directory
–cleanversion
–version
–testing
–no-equalizer Disable Equalizer support
–start-minimized Start Exaile minimized to tray, if possible
Awesome. For me, at least.
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:27 am
I have been doing pretty much the same thing lately, ok except for the command line control of exaile, and the xfce bit. but it has been quite a good compliment to the GNOME experience! Although I have noticed the playbac volume is a couple levels lower than my amarok output, so when I intend on using my super mobile notebook as a music device(read much more capable iPod) then I must use amarok it I want to hear it on the subway.
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Your volume is lower with Exaile? If so, that’s a bug with the new equalizer and is being worked on. It’s easily fixed by disabling the feature. Launch Exaile with ‘exaile –no-equalizer’ and you’ll see a big difference.