eXo v0.7 is released March 3, 2017, 9 a.m.
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New release is mainly focused on stability and usability improvements instead of bringing up new features, because it’s the last release with the Qt4 support. So I wanted to polish it as much as possible in order to give the Qt4-users the best achievable experience.

Main highlights:

  • Now it’s possible to move items up and down in the bookmark manager (see the tooltip)
  • Single instance protection
  • Fixed issue when the MOC player window was not showing with the latest Konsole version
  • Qt5 build is now default (but still Qt4 for all Ubuntu releases in the ppa)
  • CMus support has been updated
  • Lots of various fixes and improvements
  • Removed current time display in the tooltip

Packages for Trusty, Xenial, Yakkety and Zesty are already there.

eXo is a GUI (a tray icon with popup-menu) and a scrobbler for mocp written in C++/Qt.

eXo scrrenshot bookmarks window

Installation:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blaze/main
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exo-player

Single instance protection

If one instance is already running why would you need another one? Now the app is protected from being executed twice. If you wanna kill the app running in the backround just execute pkill -2 exo or there’s also a DBus method for this.

Source tarball v0.7

upd 21-05-2017:

Source tarball v0.7.1 minor fix

upd 02-03-2018:

Source tarball v0.7.2 improved OSD script, typos fixed

Source tarball v0.7.3 async player polling