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Clementine is one of the most popular music players in the Linux world, absolutely loved for the Amarok 1.4 way things work and the huge list of available services it can connect you with and please your ears and heart. The music player/organizer has already reached maturity releasing version 1.0 and then bug fixing and slightly enriching functionality with 1.1 that was released 9 months ago.

Version 1.2 is just round the corner and it brings great improvements and even more available services that you can sign in to, so I grabbed the RC and gave it test run only to see what I already expected: an even more enriched Amarok 1.4! Nothing of the good things we love about Clementine ever changes (isn’t this the reason it forked Amarok?), things got enriched without getting bloated and the application did a huge step towards supporting new and important technologies like the music you may have uploaded in cloud services!

Clementine 1.2 change-log

Apart from the cloud services, there is also the addition of Subsonic to the list of on-line music streaming services and the support of the new Opus audio codec that was released a year ago. In addition to the following list, there are tons of bugs that were fixed.

Major new features:

Add support for indexing and playing music from Box, Dropbox, Skydrive, and Ubuntu One.

Add support for Subsonic.

Remote control support for Android.

Add a Playlist tab to the sidebar. Starred playlists are saved in here when their tabs are closed.

Music uploaded to Dropbox? You can now access it via Clementine!

The new playlist tab will help you easily save and access the playlists of your choice

Other new features:

Add configurable blur & opacity to album art when used as a playlist background.

Support Opus where available.

Support .mka and .oga file extensions.

Parsing support for WPL playlists.

Sort providers by user preference.

Add year and bitrate to MPRIS2 messages.

Add “not equals” operator to fields in the smart playlist wizard.

Add an option to write ratings, play count and scores to files.

Add options to show the rating and score on the OSD.

Add support for POPM tags.

Add support for FMPS tags in Ogg, FLAC, MP4 and ASF files.

Compile the bundled Taglib with ASF, MP4 and Opus support.

Make it possible to cancel cover searches.

Add an option to resume playback on startup.

Add support for Performer and Grouping tags.

Add Radio GFM.

Add an Apply button to the settings dialog.

Make it possible to mark all episodes of a podcast as new/listened.

Add an option for fading in/out on pause/unpause.

Add stereo balance slider to the equalizer.

Add a -restart-or-previous commandline flag.

Allow files to be transcoded directly from the playlist.

Export downloaded album covers

Although this is not officially 1.2 yet, it already works completely flawless and I can’t advocate against installing it. You will find all you need in the download page.

Now for those of you who don’t like using Qt for whatever reason (installing extra libs, optical inconsistency etc) I should remind you that there is a GTK+ music player styled after Amarok 1.4 called Exaile.



Clementine Website