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Exaile Notes/Installation for OSX
=================================
Exaile support for OSX is currently limited, as no current developers
actively maintain/use Exaile on OSX. Usage of Exaile on OSX is considered
experimental at this point, and is only recommended for technical users.
However, it *is* known to work. If you find this isn't the case, report
any bugs you find to https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile
Exaile has been found to work using PyGTK and GStreamer installed from
Macports. We have not explored other ways to run it.
Install Dependencies using Macports
===================================
First, you must install macports. See http://www.macports.org/install.php
for information on how to do this.
Second, it is believed that X11 is required to run things that use GTK on
OSX installed by macports. You should ensure that X11 is installed on your
system. According to the macports website:
(Optional) The X11 windowing environment for ports that depend on the
functionality it provides to run. You have multiple choices for an
X11 server:
- Apple's X11.app is provided by the X11 User package (an optional
installation on your system CDs/DVD for older OS Versions and provided
unconditionally on Lion).
- Install the xorg-server port from MacPorts.
- The XQuartz Project (http://xquartz.macosforge.org/) provides a
complete X11 release for OS X including server and client libraries and
applications.
The following macports packages *must* be installed from macports for Exaile
to function. Some plugins may require other packages.
python27
py27-gtk
py27-mutagen
py27-gst-python
gst-plugins-base
gst-plugins-good
gst-plugins-ugly
You can install these using the standard macports install command:
sudo port install PACKAGENAME [PACKAGENAME2 ... ]
After installing python27, we recommend that you set the Macports version of
python to be the default. You can execute the following commands to do this:
sudo port install python_select
sudo port select python python27
Exaile Installation
===================
You should be able to install Exaile using the following command:
DEFAULTARGS="--no-hal --no-dbus" PREFIX=/opt/local make install
Running Exaile
==============
Before starting exaile, you must ensure that X11 is running. If X11 is not
running, you will get a lot of errors complaining about DISPLAY not found
or "GDK_IS_WINDOW() == NULL", and exaile will crash.
To start Exaile, open up a terminal, type 'exaile', and hit enter.
If you create a file somewhere called 'exaile.sh', and put the following
text in it (without the leading spaces), and run 'chmod +x exaile.sh' on
the file, you should be able to run exaile from finder by double clicking
the file.
#!/bin/sh
exaile
TODO: Figure out an easy way to create an icon for Exaile in finder. It's
probably easy to do, but someone with more OSX experience will know the
proper way to do this.
Changing the way Exaile looks
=============================
By default, macports installs a pretty ugly GTK theme on OSX, and Exaile
does not look anything like other apps on OSX. You can install the
gtk-theme-switch and gnome-themes packages from macports, and then run
'switch2' to change the theme for your user.
Selecting an output device on OSX
=================================
GStreamer only directly supports the primary output device on OSX. However,
you can specify a particular device to output audio on, but there isn't
currently a way through gstreamer to determine which devices exist on the
system. If you know the device ID of the device, you can set it in exaile
by setting the Audio Sink to 'Custom', with the following set as the
"Custom sink pipeline" option:
osxaudiosink device=X
You can use another program to query the device IDs of various audio devices
on your system. For example, mplayer can be used to show you all of the
devices on the system:
mplayer -ao coreaudio:help "path to audio file"
It will have output looking something like this:
Available output devices:
Built-in Microphone (id:260)
Built-in Input (id:258)
Built-in Output (id:262)
C-Media USB Audio Device (id:260)
C-Media USB Audio Device (id:258)
So if you wanted the USB audio device as your output device, then in Exaile
under the playback settings, you would set the output device to be 'Custom',
and specify the custom sound sink to be:
osxaudiosink device=260
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