Patch for Jilorio

Alberto Ruiz has posted a nice little utility on his blog in July. I've tried this script several weeks ago, and found some problems (deprecated gtk calls, about box annoyances, default icon) that I quickly fixed in my local git clone. I haven't used Jilorio since, but the patch still works, so if there are still Jilorio users out there, you might want to start from the upstream git repository and apply my patch on top of this codebase.

Exaile: Python-based GTK media player

I don't know on which planet I got linked to Exaile, a GTK audio player written in Python. Anyway, I installed it some days ago and downloaded some plug-ins (IM status, which works great with Pidgin; and Mini Mode, which makes Exaile about as high as the Gnome panel and only about one third of my screen wide).

Exaile is great, it has a slick, but simple interface, nice features (the music library is created by adding paths to my music collections, which is a no-nonsense way of managing the library ;). Bulk downloading album art and album cover search are great features. Last.fm integration is built-in, and DAAP support can be enabled by installing a plug-in.

There are still some annoyances: For example, tracks with no album set are displayed as "Trackname from by Artist", i.e. the album title is simply missing. But thanks to the great build/run architecture of Exaile that makes it possible to patch and test/debug directly in the SVN working directory, I was quickly able to come up with a patch, which will hopefully be included in Exaile soon.

Other than that, I can only recommend Exaile. It is in active development, and the problems and bugs that are currently present will hopefully be patched out in future versions :)