Clementine is a

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audio player. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the

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. It is available for

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, and

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operating systems. Clementine is released under the terms of the GPL-3.0-or-later. 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. The last stable release of Clementine was in 2016, but development has since resumed on

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, with a number of release candidate versions published. On 15 October 2024, the first non-RC release since 2016 was published. In 2018, a fork of Clementine named Strawberry Music Player was released. It includes some differences such as being compatible with Qt 6, more focus on local music playback, playback of high-resolution audio sources (HD audio) without resampling and fewer dependencies on libraries and third-party code

Features

Clementine can stream audio from services such as

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, Last.fm, and other platforms. The software also has the functionality to display information such as lyrics and statistics regarding the song currently being played, as well as mimicking iTunes functionality by interacting with users’ iPod players. Some additional features supported by Clementine are: *

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and queue manager. * Fetch missing tags from

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. * Project audio visualization. * Search and download

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s. * Creation of smart and dynamic

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s. * Tabbed playlists, import and export as M3U, XSPF, PLS, ASX and Cue sheets. *

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music into

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or WMA. * Playback of Windows Media Files in macOS (which iTunes and many other players cannot do). * Remote control using an Android device, a

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, MPRIS or the

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. * Moodbar visualizations. * Save statistics to file.

References

External links

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Clementine at GitHub
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