exaile vs. gstreamer

My favourite music player app on Linux is Exaile. On Gentoo it’s available straight from portage but getting playback working for different audio formats its not quite straightforward.

Exaile depends on gstreamer - albeit not on the latest version but on the 0.10 version line. Since Gentoo supports slotted gstreamer installs you have to remember to add the :0.10 slot definition when fiddling with the gstreamer ebuilds. In order to change the gstreamer plugins that are installed, take a look on the use flags of media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta:0.10:

[ebuild   R    ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r9:0.10  USE="X a52 aac alsa cdda dts dvd flac http* mp3 mpeg ogg pulseaudio vorbis x264 xv xvid -dv -dvb -ffmpeg -jack -lame -libass -libvisual -mms -musepack -opus -oss -taglib -theora -v4l -vcd -vpx -wavpack" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" 0 KiB

Adding/removing use flags and recompiling should do the trick.