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Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, Last.fm scrobbling, support for many portable media players, internet radio such as shoutcast, and tabbed playlists. Here's how to install it in Xubuntu using two methods: from Ubuntu repositories and from source. The version in the repositories is always a little behind so to get the latest version choose the source method. The highlights of the newer versions are described on Exaile's website . Exaile Running on Xubuntu Install from Ubuntu Repositories Open a terminal window and run: sudo apt-get install exaile python-mmkeys -y Note: The command above also installs python-mmkeys . This package is needed to activate the "XKeys" plugin (support for keyboard multimedia keys). You'll get this error otherwise: mmkeys.so is not available Install from Source Navigate to Exaile's download page and...

When I installed Xubuntu 12.04 on my laptop (HP Touchsmart tm2) I noticed that even though I had sound playback and the OSD worked, the sound volume didn't increased/decreased after hitting the proper keyboard keys. This was because the keys were actually adjusting the volume of the HDMI output. This can fixed by changing the value of active-card in the xfce4-mixer settings, but first the correct value must be determined: Open "Sound Settings" (Alt+F2 and type: pavucontrol). Select the "Output Devices" Tab. Annotate the device's name, leaving out spaces and all characters from this list: ()[]-/ Now add "Playback" to the beginning and "PulseAudioMixer" to the end of name annotated in the previous step. For me the correct value is: Playback BuiltinAudioAnalogStereo PulseAudioMixer Now that we possess the correct, lets change the xfce4-mixer settings: Open the "Settings Editor" (Alt+F2 and type: x...