Clementine (software)
Clementine is a free and open-source audio player. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and macOS operating systems.[4] Clementine is released under the terms of the GPL-3.0-or-later.[5]
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Original author(s) | David Sansome, John Maguire[1] |
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Developer(s) | Paweł Bara, Arnaud Bienner[1] |
Initial release | February, 2010[2] |
Stable release | 1.3.1 (April 19, 2016 ) [±] |
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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 | GPL-3.0-or-later[5] |
Website | www |
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]
The last stable release of Clementine was in 2016, but development has since resumed on Github, with a number of release candidate versions published.
In 2018, a fork of Clementine named Strawberry Music Player was released.[6]
Features
Some of the features supported by Clementine are:[7]
- 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.
- 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.
References
- David Sansome (2010-02-22), Clementine 0.1, KDE Mailing Lists, retrieved 2012-10-29
- "Clementine Music Player", Analysis Summary, Ohloh, retrieved 2012-09-13
- "Downloads", Clementine, clementine-player.org, retrieved 2016-07-27
- "License", Clementine, github.com, retrieved 2016-07-27
- "Strawberry Music Player". www.strawberrymusicplayer.org.
- 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