I had a similar problem, though the symptoms were somewhat different. I
discovered that Exaile wouldn't play some files I'd ripped from CDs. It
seemed to do everything normally such as displaying song length and
metadata. When trying to play the file, no sound would come out and the
time would remain at 0:00 indefinitely. I would have to manually change
songs to get Exaile to continue playing anything.

I noticed that the problem files were FLAC, so I thought that maybe it
was FLAC encoding problem or a Gstreamer decoding problem, but many
other players (including Gstreamer ones like Totem) had no trouble
playing them.

Finally I noticed that the file names contained "#" (ASCII 35). It seems
there was something Exaile didn't like about that character. What made
it difficult to diagnose was that Exaile never indicated any kind of
error and had no trouble extracting metadata from the files, but simply
wouldn't play them.

I just installed Exaile 0.2.99.3 and it does not seem to have this bug,
though it seems to be lacking important features like the ability to
read my old settings and database.

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Exaile cannot play songs that are housed in folders that have [] square 
brackets in the name!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316074
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