Clementine 0.4 released, adds magnatune, tabbed playlists, UI improvements & much much more

By , Published June 29, 2010

A new version of cross-platform Amarok 1.4 inspired music player 'Clementine' was released earlier today, adding a veritable crate-load of new features to already popular player.

Additions amongst them include Magnatune integration, tabbed playlists, audio transcoding & ReplayGain volume normalisation. UI changes include using native-system icons where possible, improvements to the tray icon, new ProjectM visualizations and a very nice 'now playing' widget that displays album art and track info.

As expected version 0.4 also sees a large number of bug fixes including improved library search times & notification fixes. A full list of new features and bug fixes can be found the change log.

Clementine developer zacH, who helped design and implement the 'now playing' widgets rocking out in this release, is very excited about the release, assuring us that 0.4 €œ€¦is a really, really mature release€. He did mention that a few people are experiencing higher CPU usage than normal but a for the few that this bug may affect a fix shall follow shortly.

So far, so good!

imageFrom the short hands-on I’ve had with 0.4 so far I'd have to agree that this release is great. Library times really are vastly superior in this release, the visual changes here and there are really helping to make the application feel more unified as a whole and, on a  slightly more spurious note, I really am digging the 'now playing' widget that displays in-app during track playback.

There are a really hefty number of visualisations included and I do like the fact that the visualisation UI is somewhat separate to the application itself and able to run full screen. I'm not a massive visualisation fan but I can tell it will be one of the more popular visually identifiable changes in 0.4.

For someone seeking a break from the similar-UI setups of both Banshee and Ubuntu default Rhythmbox Clementine is an fresh alternative.

Download Clementine 0.4

Clementine 0.4 hasn't been added to the Clementine PPA as of yet however .debs are already available from the project page.

Many thanks to zacH

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • B Boerma

    Can’t get it to launch. Uses up 100% of cpu, but nothing shows up.
    Back to Rhythmbox i guess.

    • Anonymous

      Launch it from the command line,maybe the output will be helpful.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the post! Clementine is one of my favorite players.
    Also, congratulations on the excellent grammar.

  • zacH

    Haha, I’m much more of a bugtester/idea person than a dev, major credit goes to John Maguire and David Sansome for their epic coding abilities. I hope people are enjoying the player. B Boerma, what are you getting if you run it in terminal? Any issues should be reported to the google code page, David is generally very prompt about troubleshooting.

    • zacH

      Also, in case it isn’t readily apparent, right-clicking the now playing widget will allow you to choose between the two sizes, and also (tiny option) whether you want the status bar to be cut off by the widget, or placed beneath it. I like the larger widget best, but I’m decidedly biased.

  • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

    Cool =) I don’t know why, I like this name very much. Clementine. Clementine. I catch myself repeating it for no reason sometimes.

    • Anonymous

      Same, I caught myself humming ‘oh my darling, oh my daarling’ while it was installing this morning lol.

      What’s with the ‘Rain’ menu option? While it sounds funny, is there an actual point to it?

      • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

        I don’t know, here it doesn’t work. If I try to play it the music stops and no sound replaces it…

  • ::six

    I love the idea of this and can’t wait to get home to try this version, but the dealmaker/breaker for me is last.fm-based dynamic playlists. Any chance this might be coming to Clementine any time soon?

  • Anonymous

    No player is going to be better than Amarok 1.4, that is why I still use it even when it is no longer supported and when I am using gnome.
    Let’s hope Clamentine continues improving!

  • kakaw

    Everyone’s got their own dealbreakers. For me it’s the ability to backup/export star ratings and playlists. Can Clementine do these things? And if not, will it be able to anytime soon?

  • Ulu

    I don’t get it. Why can’t I find Clementine in the Covergloobus menu? It’s supported, isn’t it?

  • Ulu

    I don’t get it. Why can’t I find Clementine in the Covergloobus menu? It’s supported, isn’t it?

  • boernie

    The rain feature is really cool xD
    It’s so hot here in Germany

  • boernie

    The rain feature is really cool xD
    It’s so hot here in Germany

  • Anonymous

    This was the Linux player I was waiting for. Tabbed playlists is the only thing that other players miss, in my opinion. That’s why I’ve been using Foobar2000 until now.

  • Anonymous

    This was the Linux player I was waiting for. Tabbed playlists is the only thing that other players miss, in my opinion. That’s why I’ve been using Foobar2000 until now.

  • Chris

    All I really need is scrobbling and album view mode like the one in iTunes. Full screen album view, Banshee has something close to it, but it’s in a small window. Sadness.

  • Chris

    All I really need is scrobbling and album view mode like the one in iTunes. Full screen album view, Banshee has something close to it, but it’s in a small window. Sadness.

  • Giorgio

    thumbs up for clementine! :D

    some problems with “seek forward” and “seek backward” with global shortcut, otherwise great!

  • Giorgio

    thumbs up for clementine! :D

    some problems with “seek forward” and “seek backward” with global shortcut, otherwise great!

  • Rotten

    I love this player, it’s great for large collections