Sound menu indicator was introduced in Ubuntu Maverick(10.10). User can control playback from this menu, and view current track information.
The control is based on mpris spec 2.0, which is a common specification of controlling media player with dbus. To enable sound menu support, media player should implement mpris 2.0, and register itself with libindicate.
So this week, I have been working on an exaile plugin to support sound menu and finally got a workable version.
The code repo can be found at github:
https://github.com/sunng87/Exaile-Soundmenu-Indicator
You should mention that mpris is an Exaile plugin and must be enabled before this will work.
Anyway, great work!
Thank you for reporting.
However, the mpris plugin in standard release has nothing to do with this sound menu indicator plugin. Mpris plugin implements mpris spec 1.0, and I just impl mpris spec 2.0 by myself. So the mpris is not a prerequisite, and you don’t have to activate it before using sound menu indicator.
Odd, because it didn’t work for me at all until I enabled it.
hello, awesome work towards time than expected. I have a bug, when I minimize it I can not open it from the sound indicator I have to kill the process terminal.
Thank you for reporting. I am also suffered with issue, exaile behalves strange when invoke main window show(). I will notify you when I fix it.
Hi, I think this problem is now fixed. Please download the latest snapshot from github, your feedback is welcome.
Exaile 插件为 mpris spec 1.0，这么安装mpris spec 2.0阿。
错误信息：
No module named indicate
sudo apt-get install python-appindicator
应该是python-indicate吧，安装python-appindicator之后没用，但是我安装python-indicate之后就行了，谢谢了，弄了很久才好的。
不好意思，搞错了，是python-indicate
Hello! Unfortunately I have the same problem. No module named indicate. Appindicator is installed.
Thank you.
Just install the python indicate binding:
sudo apt-get install python-indicate
It is installed. Still no module in the list
Make sure you are using exaile 0.3.2 in Ubuntu 10.10
Make sure you have the plugin in the right place:
/home/***/.local/share/exaile/plugin/
Start exaile from terminal, just activate this plugin, if failed, copy the stacktrace and paste here.
请问 您用的系统是ubuntu么 如果是 你的这个主题可以共享么 ？ 非常感谢啊
是Ubuntu，这个主题叫做Equinox
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=121881
装上了，很好看啊，谢谢咯
Hi,
Ubuntu 10.04
Exaile 0.3.2.1
Sound pluging /home/***/.local/share/exaile/plugin/
Load exaile, I select the plugin, restart the application.
Does NOT work
I remember the sound menu indicator was available since Maverick(10.10). For Lucid user, indicator-sound does not include MPRIS integration.
You’d better upgrade to Maverick.
难得看到你的comment显示的OS是windows赶紧过来围观一下
上班啊，没办法
嗯，猜到了= =
我的Kindle啊TAT
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Hi, I get this error when trying to use the latest version (0.04): “global name ‘exaile’ is not defined”
Using Ubuntu 11.04 and Exaile 0.3.2.1
Hello, I’ve been trying your plugin and works great, but closing exaile shold behave just like closing to tray right? well… It doesn’t work like that
take it as feedback or feature request 
This is a known issue because we cannot modify window behavior with a plugin, in Exaile 0.3.2. See the discussion here:
http://groups.google.com/group/exaile-devel/browse_thread/thread/8ca7b4f5acce2478
Anyway, I will follow the upstream development and try to fix it asap.
I’ve noticed that clicking in exaile indicator (launcher) also hides the main window, but sometimes doesn’t work until changing the window’s position/state
Could you modify the script for Oneiric please?
Thanks a lot!
I’ve already switched to distros with gnome-shell so I am no longer using this plugin.
Anyway, I will check the spec and update the plugin at some time.