Exaile 4.0.0 released!

More than four years after the last Exaile 3.4.5 release, we’re happy to announce that Exaile 4.0.0 “Perfect is the enemy of good” has been released!

About the codename

It has been a really 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.

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.

About the release

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.

There are far too many improvements and bugfixes to mention here. Please refer to our 4.0.0 Release notes on Github for details.

Download the latest Exaile releases on Github.

Exaile 4.0.0-rc5 released!

4.0.0 will come next weekend unless there are more bugs

  • Fixed playlist column editing click/drag issues
  • F2 now also triggers track tag editing
  • Fix accelerators issue that caused bug in audioscrobbler plugin
  • Remove AWN plugin
  • Windows installer: Upgrade to GStreamer 1.16, fix CI bugs
  • Other minor bugs
  • Some translation updates

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Exaile 4.0.0-rc4 released!

So many fixes and enhancements!

  • ipconsole: Don’t swallow ImportErrors
  • Equalizer: save present correctly
  • Fix unicode issue in saved playlists
  • Fix rating setting in playlists
  • Fix SmartPlaylists with timestamps
  • Improved support for AlbumArtist: collection pane, playlist column, track properties
  • Build automation: releases are now built automatically by Travis and Appveyor (thanks @X0rg for all the work!)
  • Moodbar improvements
  • Many tags are now directly editable in the playlist view
  • Drop support for HAL and UDisks v1
  • Many translation updates
  • Many minor fixes and enhancements

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Exaile 4.0.0-rc3 released!

Various important bugfixes:

  • Fix cairo issues on pygobject 3.30
  • Fix issues reading tags when tagless media are in a collection
  • Plugin updates for DAAP/Last.fm
  • Fix bugs in parsing track streams
  • SmartPlaylist bug with empty collection

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