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Clementine

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Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and...

Clementine with lyrics pane

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application types

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux  Binary packages available from distribution
  • BSD  Available in FreeBSD Ports & PKG
3.9 / 5 Avg rating (28)
730 likes
31comments
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Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Smart playlists
  2.  Podcast Player
  3.  Dynamic/Intelligent Playlists
  4.  Internet Radio
  5. Last.fm icon  Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
  6.  Playlists management
  7.  Audio Visualization
  8.  Moodbar
  9.  Ratings
  10.  Music Library
  11.  Lossless Audio
  12.  File Tagging
  13.  Ad-free
  14.  No registration required
  15.  No Tracking
  16.  Podcast Subscription
  17.  Built-in Tag editor
  18.  Playlists
  19.  Built-in Equalizer
  20.  Album shuffle mode
  21. iTunes icon  iTunes integration
  22.  iPhone/iPod sync
  23.  Artwork

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  • PredatorQ liked Clementine
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    POX added Clementine as alternative to WalkStar
    7 days ago
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  • freakqnc commented on Clementine
    21 days ago

    There seem to be no Mac compiled DMG available. The link to the list of options available on the official "Downloads" site end s up returning an error message and no installer to download. ::puzzled::

  • sredfred, Opensourcelover, erebosgr and thejfex liked Clementine
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  • pixel-k88 liked Clementine
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    POX added Clementine as alternative to Rune Player
    about 2 months ago
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Clementine information

  • Developed by

    David Sansome and John Maguire
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.9 (28 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    241 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Audio & MusicVideo & MoviesFile Management

GitHub repository

  •  3,843 Stars
  •  688 Forks
  •  2396 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 2, 2025 
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Our users have written 31 comments and reviews about Clementine, and it has gotten 730 likes

Clementine was added to AlternativeTo by vottka on May 10, 2010 and this page was last updated Oct 12, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Clementine is praised for being lightweight, fast, and feature-rich across multiple platforms, with strong compatibility with Windows and Linux. However, concerns about its maintenance and development status have emerged, with some reports of technical issues, especially on Linux. It offers an impressive set of features like integration with online services and an intuitive interface, though it faces competition from alternatives like Strawberry and MusicBee.
Douze
  
Top positive commentApr 12, 2016

I like Clementine because it has a great interface with which you easily get along with :) Although i only use it for the mp3s stocked on my computer, you can pair it with Soundcloud, Spotify and such other online music services, podcast websites or even online storage websites such as Dropbox and Google Drive. It's great for creating playlists that mixes music from artists only available to you on specific platforms!

One button i use very often since i installed Clementine is the "Stop playing after this track" button. You can also queue tracks so that, within a playlist, you can create your little temporary playlist for this particular session. It's great. Talking of playlists, it does a great job at letting you create any playlist you want, name it, export it, import it. Anf if you're too lazy to create your own, the music player has dynamic ones already created for you.

It also satisfies my collector's desperate need for tags and classification in my music librairy, as this music player allows you to quickly order your collection by any information available. It even has a tag editor integrated, which is quite simple to use.

On top of that, Clementine offers many other tools you might need the use at some point such as, trippy track visualizations, rain sounds, imported lyrics, author, album and track imported descriptions and an equalizer.

So yeah, i think it's a great software :)

EDIT: i now use Strawberry instead, which is the maintained and open-source equivalent to Clementine :) but my review here still stands!

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cosmospider
  
Top negative commentJun 18, 2024

It's waay to unmaintained, the backlog is so large it will be impossible to resolve in decades. Soon this software will obtain status of historical software.

They keep the automatic sync of translation updates, even though they may never release a new version.

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freakqnc
CommentJan 21, 2025

There seem to be no Mac compiled DMG available. The link to the list of options available on the official "Downloads" site end s up returning an error message and no installer to download. ::puzzled::

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dszalkowski
  
Positive commentSep 22, 2024

I 've chosen Clementine for the playlist random mode.

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Trevor Scott
  
ReviewNov 26, 2022

As of this post (Nov. 26th, 2022), Clementine is a 32-bit application when it comes to windows.

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Jee
  
Positive commentFeb 14, 2022

There is no release since 2016 but it's not discontinued !!

Last commit a few days ago https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/commits/master

Please update

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Grant Cruickshank

Yes, but look at the commits: all automated Translation updates except pecking at tiny bits and pieces every few months. That's as good as discontinued in my book.

Reply written May 9, 2022

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Guest
  
Positive commentOct 2, 2020

Simple and extremely lightweight Once well configured it's doing all you could want for a daily use in background

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What is Clementine?

Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok icon Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and Mac OS X.

Features: Search and play your local music library Listen to internet radio from Last.fm, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo and Icecast. Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX Visualizations 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 Download missing album cover art from Last.fm Native desktop notifications on Linux and Mac OS X Remote control using a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player Queue manager Android remote control

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