Clementine music player RC adds iPod support, wiiremote control & more

Amarok 1.4 inspired music player Clementine is now in release candidate mode for its forthcoming ‘point 5’ release.

There are considerable bugfixes galore, as Clementine developer Dave informs: –

“There have also been loads of CPU usage reductions and memory leak
fixes, and the startup time has been reduced by more than half.”

As well as a veritable soup of new features, including: –

• Device support – iPods, MTP and USB mass storage
• Queue manager
• Organise Files dialog
• Support for using Wiimotes as remote controls
• Loading embedded id3v2 cover art
• Hypnotoad ;)

Download

Clementine 0.5 Release Candidate can be downloaded from the project download at: –

• code.google.com/p/clementine-player/downloads/list?q=Release%3DRC

As ever don’t forget to report any bugs you find so that the stable release can be super so.

As ever, thanks to zacH