Some people were disappointed when Amarok 2.0 was released, it had changed a lot from the tried and trusted 1.4 and not to everyone's liking. Amarok 1.4 was still around, but uses the older QT libraries, which modern distros do not install. Being open source, it was almost inevitable that someone would take the Amarok 1.4 source code and begin porting it to QT4. What was far less inevitable was that the porting project would reach the stage of a usable release, but that is exactly what Clementine has done.
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. Apple Mac OSX Lion 10.7.5 Direct DMG Torrent The version 10.7.5 is here and it is the latest in its domain. An upgradation to the latest version is suggested by the owners of the OS to enable an addition of the latest features unique to this release.
Porting to QT4 has two advantages, not only does it mean that Clementine can run on modern distros without needing older libraries, but QT4 is also available for Windows and MacOS X, so Clementine is now truly cross-platform.
If you ever used the older Amarok, you will feel immediately at home with Clementine. Some of the more esoteric features have not made it across (yet) but that's not necessarily a bad thing, Amarok was already beginning to get quite bloated (or feature rich, depending on your point of view) by the 1.4 release. The basics are there, playlist management, ID tag editing and Last.fm integration. The latter not only allows you to listen to music from Last.fm, you need an account there, but it can also download cover art from their site. Clementine can also play streamed audio fro many Internet radio stations, although it doesn't have the podcast support of Amarok 2.
If you want a basic but functional music player that fits in with a KDE desktop, you won't go far wrong with Clementine, even at this early stage of its development.
Version 1.3 major new features (see changelog for more), include:
- 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
f you yearn for the good old days when Amarok just played music, this is the player for you.
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; 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]
Some of the features supported by Clementine are:[6]
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