Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl) Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line; Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player. Queue manager; Clementine is released under the GPL v3. The most recent version of Clementine (1.3.1) was released in April of 2016. The most popular Mac alternative is foobar2000, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Clementine and loads of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement.
| Original author(s) | David Sansome, John Maguire[1] |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Paweł Bara, Arnaud Bienner[1] |
| Initial release | February, 2010[2] |
| Stable release | 1.3.1 (April 19, 2016; 4 years ago) [±] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ (Qt)[3] |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Size | Windows: 21 MB macOS: 31 MB Unix-like: 6 MB[4] |
| Type | Audio player |
| License | GNU General Public License v3[5] |
| Website | www.clementine-player.org |
Clementine is a free and open-sourceaudio player. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamermultimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and macOS.[4] Clementine is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.[5]
Clementine was created due to the transition from version 1.4 to version 2 of Amarok, and the shift of focus connected with it, which was criticized by many users. The first version of Clementine was released in February 2010.[2]
Features[edit]
Some of the features supported by Clementine are:[6]
- Listening to Internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark (now defunct), Jamendo (January 2014 catalog), Last.fm, Magnatune, RadioTunes (Formerly Sky.FM), SomaFM, Icecast, Digitally Imported, SoundCloud and Google Drive and possibly Google Music in the future.
- Sidebar information panes with song lyrics, statistics, artist biographies and pictures.
- Tag editor, album cover and queue manager.
- Downloading cover art from Last.fm.
- Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
- projectM audio visualization.
- Search and download podcasts.
- Creation of smart and dynamic playlists.
- Tabbed playlists, import and export as M3U, XSPF, PLS, ASX and Cue sheets.
- Transfer of music to some iPods (corruption of iPod problems exist as of build 1.1.1), iPhone, MTP or any USB mass-storage player.
- Transcoding music into MP3, Ogg (Vorbis, Speex, Opus), FLAC, AAC or WMA.
- Playback of Windows Media Files in macOS (which iTunes and many other players with advanced library functions cannot do).
- Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line interface.
- Moodbar visualizations.
- Save statistics to file.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'about.cpp file', Clementine, github.com, retrieved 2016-07-27
- ^ abDavid Sansome (2010-02-22), Clementine 0.1, KDE Mailing Lists, retrieved 2012-10-29
- ^'Clementine Music Player', Analysis Summary, Ohloh, retrieved 2012-09-13
- ^ ab'Downloads', Clementine, clementine-player.org, retrieved 2016-07-27
- ^ ab'License', Clementine, github.com, retrieved 2016-07-27
- ^Chris von Eitzen (2012-10-29), Clementine music player adds podcast support, The H, archived from the original on 8 December 2013, retrieved 2012-10-29
External links[edit]
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When it comes to a Mac music player, users are often confused. That's because, for some reason, most players look like iTunes but with a broader functionality and the absence of iTunes store. We need an iTunes alternative because we want to listen to audio formats not supported by it.
Today, I'm comparing to prominent audio players for Mac – VOX Music Player and Clementine according to their functionality, compatibility, format support, interface and additional features.
Functionality. VOX vs. Clementine
Clementine
Clementine is an audio player and library organizer, with the interface similar to iTunes’s and many features for the playback control. Overall use is simple – to add files you just drop your files to the player. What I liked most is that you can listen to music you have in Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. You can edit meta tags right (only on MP3 and OGG files) in the app and Clementine automatically finds lyrics and album covers if they are missing.
VOX Music Player
VOX is more about the playback. The app puts an accent on simplicity so that users don't get confused with how to use the app. VOX includes only five tabs: Playlist, Library, Queue, Radio, and SoundCloud. Users can log into Spotify, and SoundCloud to listen to their music library using one app. Last.fm scrobbling available to keep the listening stats and get recommendations based on played tracks on VOX. The Radio includes 30,000 stations from 140 countries.
Compatibility. VOX vs. Clementine
Clementine
Clementine works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. You can control the playback using an Android device or a Wii remote.
VOX Music Player
VOX Music Player has a macOS and iOS version. The functionality of desktop and mobile is pretty much the same. According to VOX developers, Windows and Android version are due in 2018.
Format Support. VOX vs. Clementine
Clementine & VOX Music Player
Both players support uncompressed, lossless, and lossy audio formats. They include AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, MP3, OGG, APE, playlist formats and more.
Interface – judge for yourself
Clementine
VOX Music Player
Additional Features
Clementine
Apart from the remote control, meta tags editing and lyrics search, Clementine has:
- Internet radio.
- Smart Playlists.
- Gar/Overlap.
- Equalizer.
- Internet services integration.
VOX Music Player
Clementine Remote Mac Mini
I've already mentioned Spotify, Last.fm, and SoundCloud integration. As for audio settings, VOX offers:
- Equalizer.
- BS2B (Crossfeed).
- Track Buffer.
- Gap/Overlap.
- Sync Sample Rate.
- Hog Mode.
- Extra Volume.
Clementine Remote Machine
Apart from that, there's an online storage for your music. It's called VOX Music Cloud.
The cloud serves as the main place to keep your music and stream from it to your devices. VOX Music Cloud is an unlimited online storage. You can upload there as much music as you want. It also has no restrictions on audio formats or file's size. If your upload thousands of FLACs, it's fine. You can listen to them on your iPhone and Mac. VOX Music Cloud is available only to VOX Premium subscribers.
Clementine Remote Mac Desktop
Now that we've learned about these players, you can try any of them and see how it goes. I prefer VOX Music Player because it's easier to navigate and use in general. I really like VOX interface as well. Clementine would suit you if you have a vast music library and you want to integrate with various Internet services. But I'm not one of them.