On June 6, 2019, after four years of development, Exaile 4.0.0 was released \u2014 an audio player with extensive music management capabilities, extensible with plugins, of which there are more than fifty.\n<\/p>\n
\nChanges:\n<\/p>\n
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The playback engine has been rewritten.\n<\/li>\n
The graphical interface has been rewritten using GTK+3.\n<\/li>\n
The speed of processing large music libraries has been increased.\n<\/li>\n
The placement of some buttons in RTL localization has been fixed.\n<\/li>\n
The tag editor has improved its reaction to mouse scrolling.\n<\/li>\n
Reading ogg\/opus tags has been enhanced.\n<\/li>\n
A loading indicator for particularly long playlists has been added.\n<\/li>\n
New playlist columns.\n<\/li>\n
The gstreamer plugin is now used for decoding mp3.\n<\/li>\n
The size and position of the track properties dialog window are remembered.\n<\/li>\n
Display of tags with empty values has been modified.\n<\/li>\n
Matroska files without timecodescale are supported, and some tags have been fixed.\n<\/li>\n
In the 'Files' panel, when navigating up to the previous level, the previous directory retains focus.\n<\/li>\n
Searching through the collection and tracklist is performed independently of diacritical marks.\n<\/li>\n
Breaks during rapid navigation through the menu have been fixed.\n<\/li>\n
AAC format support.\n<\/li>\n
Reading of aif, aiff, aifc, and some wav files has been fixed or improved.\n<\/li>\n
Errors when removing tags from files of certain formats have been fixed.\n<\/li>\n
New operators in the built-in search language.\n<\/li>\n
The hierarchy of exaile dialog windows has been corrected.\n<\/li>\n
When using pulseaudio, Exaile no longer disrupts the behavior of its other clients.\n<\/li>\n
Support for bash and fish autocomplete.\n<\/li>\n
The ability to install missing gstreamer plugins from the exaile window.\n<\/li>\n
A dialog window with a list of keyboard shortcuts has been added, including several new ones.\n<\/li>\n
Access to logs has been added to the menu.\n<\/li>\n
The Space key is bound to play\/pause.\n<\/li>\n
Expanded cover association.\n<\/li>\n
Sorting by multiple columns has been implemented in playlists.\n<\/li>\n
New shuffle mode.\n<\/li>\n
Support for operations based on the criterion 'album artist'.\n<\/li>\n
Support for editing tags in the playlist.\n<\/li>\n
A number of other fixes.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Smart playlists:\n<\/p>\n
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export fixed\n<\/li>\n
added filtering by bitrate\n<\/li>\n
added whole word matching\n<\/li>\n
added support for default custom sorting\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Plugins:\n<\/p>\n
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Added mpris2.\n<\/li>\n
Added keybinder: does not require dbus, not available on wayland.\n<\/li>\n
Plugins shipped with Exaile now have the same version as it.\n<\/li>\n
The PLUGININFO file allows you to specify dependencies and compatible platforms.\n<\/li>\n
bpmdetect from gstreamer is available for a number of operations.\n<\/li>\n
daapclient displays the year, disk number, and album artist.\n<\/li>\n
Volume normalization in equalizer presets.\n<\/li>\n
grouptagger: exports group tags in JSON, import is not supported.\n<\/li>\n
The minimode playlist window no longer hides automatically.\n<\/li>\n
moodbar has been rewritten in GTK+3 and shows a thumbnail when previewdevice is enabled.\n<\/li>\n
screensaverpause supports MATE and Cinnamon screensavers.\n<\/li>\n
Experimental support for the python module for the keyboard in winmmkeys.<\/li>\n
awn, contextinfo, droptrayicon, ipod, exfalso, gnomemmkeys, mpris have been removed. Lyricsviewer, notifyosd, xkeys have transferred their functions to Exaile or built-in plugins. Other plugins have been moved to the new version without proper testing and require close attention.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n