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Clementine

Name: Clementine
Rating: 4.1735 (30 reviews)

1.3.1

27 May 2016

Queue-based music player with Spotify, Last.fm and Growl support.

Overview

Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer.

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.

Search and play your local music library.
Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers.
Search and play songs you've uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive
Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
CUE sheet support.
Play audio CDs.
Visualisations from projectM.
Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music.
Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
Discover and download Podcasts.
Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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.

What's new in Clementine

Version 1.3.1:

Major Features

Vk.com support
Seafile support (server >= 4.4.1)
Add Ampache compatibility (through Subsonic service)
Add new analyzer "Rainbow Dash"
Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything
Add "Psychedelic Colour" mode to all analyzers

Other Features

Add left click to fullsize cover on playing widget
Add m4b support for non-drm files
Ignore English articles for library sorting
Improve the organize dialog
Add an option to warn before closing a playlist tab
Add an option to disable the pause notification
Add options to hide some internet services
Add an option to disable inline song metadata editing
Add "details below" and "no details" now playing widget options
Add "no song details" now playing widget option
Add icons to the extras menu
Add a source icon for CD tracks
Allow user to remove directories in the Files tab
Add ability to remove unavailable items from playlist
Add a button to the transcode dialog to add all files in a directory
Make it impossible to collapse either side of the MainWindow splitter
Add menu items for updating and doing a full rescan of Google Drive
Increase Soundcloud cover image size
Add the ability to pause Spotify tracks
Add the ability to add or remove a Spotify track to a Spotify playlist through context menu
Add Spotify tracks to Spotify playlists by drag and drop
Add ability to get a link to share Spotify playlists and songs
Improve handling of Spotify Top Tracks and compilations
Add playlist actions to Spotify songs
Add ability to automatically set podcast as listened after successfully sending it to a device
Add ability to order podcasts by age
Allow user to download multiple podcasts at the same time
Add ability to cancel podcast downloads in progress
Allow user to hide listened podcast episodes
Huge improvement of the speed at startup
Improve performance of mass rating changes
Improve ripping performance
Persistent cache for pixmaps. Huge improvement of the performance when scrolling the library for example
Add AppData file for Clementine (for GNOME and KDE Software Centers)
Add iPod-like behaviour to previous button
Add HipHop and Kuduro equalizers
Remember current playlist between restarts
IDv3 tag lyrics support
Scroll to last played track when switching playlists
Add stop after each song repeat mode
Sort discs numerically when using Group by disc
Add ability for sort by group and performer in the library view
Parse the year of a disc from musicbrainz
Add track intro mode
Add ability to add a search term with tab and space in the smart playlist window
Add love/ban (Last.fm) global shortcuts
Add support for "original year" tags
Send album artist to Last.fm with liblastfm >= 1.0.0
Add sample rate selection
Add option to change the time step when seeking using the keyboard
Playlist sort by album considers disc and track numbers
Add options for double clicking song in the playlist
Volume slider handles glow effect using system theme
Library view sort line themable
Show track durations in the CD ripper dialog
Add ability to read REM DISC tag from Cue sheet
Add ability to lock/unlock rating edit status
Add the support of trackNum elements in XSPF
Add support for inhibiting the screensaver on windows
Add "Smart Playlists" for Subsonic
Add lyrics from AZLyrics
Add lyrics from bollywoodlyrics.com
Add lyrics from hindilyrics.net
Add lyrics from lololyrics.com
Add lyrics from Musixmatch
Add lyrics from Tekstowo.pl
Use Alt+Tab to switch between playlist tabs

Bug Fixes

Fix crash when click on a SoundCloud entry in internet tab
Fix crash when marking podcast as listened
Fix crash after pressing OK in the device properties window
Fix stop after track which doesn't remove now playing
Fix play bleeding into next track after auto stop
Fix analyzer framerate when mouseover play scrubber
Fix issues with buffers sent to analyzer
Fix block analyzer framerate
Fix divide-by-zero possibility with small buffers at end of track
Fix divide-by-zero possibility in moodbar
Fix oversized album cover art
Clean cover art from /tmp
Fix the rendering of the little numbers in the boxes on queued items in the playlist
Fix parsing of MusicBrainz data for discid
Fix random artifacting on nyanalyzer on startup
Fix podcasts length issues (which caused issues with seeking for example)
Fix too small equalizer window size
Fix labels which don't inherit system text colors in the edit tag dialog
Fix the mess of the queue manager after playlist re-sort
Fix for queue ordering issue in the playlist view when using Ctrl+D to dequeue a track
Fix detection of parent-relative paths in playlist saving
Fix path seperators issue when reading playlists
Fix m3u parser issue when an artist's name has a hyphen
Fix bug with percents when fetch the Jamendo catalogue
Fix a little dropout when transition to next track
Fix broken RockRadio.com for premium users
Fix Subsonic login with + characters in the password
Fix accents issue in when save playlist in xspf format
Fix issues with some songs length thanks to Taglib. People with Taglib installed on their system will have to wait a new release of Taglib
Fix moodbars not generating correctly
Fix socket leak in moodbar
Fix memory leak in tagreader
Fix crash when trying to fingerprint but missing a plugin
Fix infinite scan with Subsonic when the library is empty
Fix shortcut/media keys issues on Mac
Fix compilation issues on Yosemite
Fix performer tag for mpeg
Fix parsing issues with "innovative" datetime formats
Fix laggy interface on Mac
Fix playback breaks in Spotify
Fix memory leaks
Fix crash when stopping song that is fading after pausing
Fix crash when trying to download a track but there is no current one playing
Fix default spinner gif image which shows white pixels around the image
Fix setting album artist tag for FLAC files if it already exists
Fix crash when Clementine lists the albums on Ampache
Fix Last.fm scrobbling after seek
Fix metadata not processed properly for some streams (Akamai)
Fix save state when the song was paused
Fix some issues in Boom and Turbine analyzers
Fix song continuously rewinding when seeking using keyboard arrow keys
Fix OSD re-posistioning which doesn't work on multiple monitors
Fix Sonogram state while paused
Fix crash when changing 'group by' while album covers are still loading
Fix loss of valid data from an mp3 file when using the metadata editor
Fix track slider twitching
Fix Di.fm stations stuck when try to play them without internet
Make mood files hidden in NTFS
Fix time labels blinking when playing streams without known duration
Fix tag fetcher which applies incorrect tags for songs without any results
Fix Clementine getting stuck when transitioning from a local track to a Spotify track with crossfade disabled
Fix previous track when playing a dynamic random mix
Fix fullscreen album covers for monitors in portrait mode
Don't scale down star icons by 1 pixel
Fix Soundcloud API Search which simply doesn't work

Removed Features

Remove Ubuntu One support
Remove Discogs support
Remove GrooveShark support
Remove Radio GFM support

Build-System Changes

Update to gstreamer 1.0
Don't compile vreen with link-time optimizations
Use the system's sha2 library if it's available
Remove libindicate-qt
Remove internal copy of libechonest and add it as dependency
Use libcrypto++ instead of QCA
Update TagLib to 1.10.0
Use a GTlsDatabase for gstreamer SSL

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It's a shame that the devs dismissively dropped support for 10.6. A lot of the people who are looking for an iTunes alternative are also the people who dislike the iOS-ification of more current versions of OS X and the comglomeration that is iTunes these days, so in effect they are dropping support for many of the very people who have an interest in this succeeding. That said, it's not an easy way to play music. One has to add songs to a playlist first, and if the playlist already has stuff in it, new songs get added to the bottom of it. Later this becomes a mess, but would be great for a party. I can clear the playlist with a button, but if I do that playlist loses the songs I originally put there. So to play one needs to make a new playlist first. I made playlists of the folders of songs I like, but then the header gets crowded and the titles get unreadable. Simply put, the UI is not competely sorted. It has some nice features and plays with good sound quality, but really all I want to do is select a folder and play the contents, not jockey files around. Also, playing from the folder side it supports fewer formats than playing from the DB side for some reason, perhaps because it can't use Apple's built-in stuff? I use Rockbox on my little Sansa Clip, when I want to play a folder I select a it, select a song in it and hit play, it plays the rest of the folder without any intervention, regardless of format. It starts up almost instantly with 72 GB of files on it, without having to catalog. Why can't any desktop player do this? The reason for this preference is so I can decide what an album is for myself, without all the "helpful" labeling and categorising that most players want to do, or without delving into metadata when all I want to do is move a file somewhere else or delete it. It's easier for me to put stuff where I want it using the Finder and not have to "find" a file for a DB that's out of date.. If I move track 7 out of the folder it no longer is part of the album, and if I like a remix to finish off with it becomes part of the album even though its metadata would show it to be part of another album.

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