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

By , Published September 6, 2010

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 ;)

Clementine 0.5 RC main window

Download

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

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

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  3. Clementine Music Player gets a PPA, Many New features
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  • taccoboss

    What about Clementine? Definitely a project that deserves success!

  • taccoboss

    What about Clementine? Definitely a project that deserves success!

  • Anonymous

    Hypnotoad for teh win. I find it quite amusing that primarily Gnome users use Clementine these days. It looks like everyone who has a reason to talk had some reason to jump ship with Amarok 2.

    I guess for some people it was like switching from Winamp to iTunes.

    • zacH

      I agree that it is amusing. I’ve been using ubuntu since Dapper (way back when), and I would always have to install the kde-base packages just so I could use amarok. I was so bummed when the devs moved onto 2.x… but hey, if they hadn’t, I might never have gotten this excellent (and easy to set-up) fork. Good stuff.

      • Anonymous

        Isn’t Exaile a Gnome clone of Amarok, or isn’t it that good?

        • Joebanana89

          crashes a lot on my sys and is a bit slow.
          development seems to be a bit slow i think.

          and overall its not as sexy as clementine

        • zacH

          What Joe said. Clem sticks much closer to the original UI, and I find it personally to be much more stable and user-friendly.

          Also, on a personal note, I would say that the devs are MUCH friendlier in the interactions I’ve had, and work at a crazy rapid pace. I’m glad to know them (to the extent that i do, at least).

  • http://thealphanerd.wordpress.com/ Calvin

    ALL HAIL THE GLORY OF THE HYPNOCLEMENTINETOAD

    • Bender Bending Rodríguez

      If you like Hypnotoad, you’ll love brain slugs. Here, take one…

  • http://thealphanerd.wordpress.com/ Calvin

    ALL HAIL THE GLORY OF THE HYPNOCLEMENTINETOAD

  • Joebanana89

    Awesome
    Never crashed. My favourite amarok1.4 like music player

  • Joebanana89

    Someone tried the win version?
    Is it as stable as the linux version?

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

      yes, win version is pretty stable

  • http://twitter.com/sam_darkhorse Samandra Darkhorse

    Clementine is great, but there’s something I can’t figure out. Nothing against oranges, but…how do I get rid of that giant orange in the background of my playlist area? It would be cool to be able to put my own image there, but I’ll happily settle for a Clementine that looks like the photo in this article. How do I make that happen in Ubuntu Lucid?

    • zacH

      It’s not currently configurable, there is an open issue about it on google code… I think they like the “branding,” so I’m not sure if this will be made a priority. You should definitely go over there and star the issue/voice your support of the idea if it interests you, though.

      • http://twitter.com/sam_darkhorse Samandra Darkhorse

        zacH: Thanks for the suggestion. :) I’ll do that.

  • Heavymetalmixer

    Im trying the Windows version, and it’s vey simple but complete. The problem it’sthat the RAM consumption is vey high (higher than 90MB, im using Windows 7 *32), and the built-in music conveter doesn’t let you choose the converted music location.

    • zacH

      I’d report the high RAM consumption on the google code page, sounds like something is amiss… the devs are suually pretty good with troubleshooting these things.

  • Lennier

    I need cueape , cueflac , iso.wv suport

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/dsnettleton dsnettleton

    Sweet!
    I wish banshee had wii remote support!

  • Anonymous

    why does it use KDE icons in the settings menu?

  • Anonymous

    We just need a mono icon for it now :)

  • Anonymous

    What the hell is an hypn – ALL HAIL OUR LORD HYPNOTOAD!

  • zacH

    Anyone experiencing slowness in startup in Intrepid should disable wiimote support in preferences… there’s a dbus issue that is resolved with the newer dbus packaged in maverick.

    Also, for maverick users, usually the currently playing track has a colored border around it in the playlist. This is missing in the RC build due to a bug in the maverick version of qt, but just got fixed. It will be working properly in .5 proper.

    • zacH

      Sorry, by “intrepid” I meant “lucid”. I’ve been doing that a lot lately…

  • Token

    Clementine it’s great, but not even close to Amarok 1.4, it’s still missing lyrics, information pane, transference queue, a good cover downloader…

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/suprman2020 Solomon

    Is anybody able to install in Maverick? I got this error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libimobiledevice0 (>= 0.9.7).

  • http://empireavenue.com/PATMAN patman023

    wow, FINALLY something that looks like my Foobar2K setup but on Linux, and w/o Wine! ABOUT TIME!

  • thatguy

    Uses a unreasonable amount on ram in Windows version. More then iTunes, WMP, Zune, or even WINAMP.

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    Every time i try the “Rain” feature, Clementine’s interface locks up

 
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