{"id":475888,"date":"2010-03-26T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/?p=21703"},"modified":"2010-04-27T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:34:19","slug":"review-clementine-0-2-music-player-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/475888","title":{"rendered":"[Review] Clementine 0.2 Music Player in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/ricky\/clementine_.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"clementine1\" src=\"http:\/\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/ricky\/clementine.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>For many Linux users (me included),  Amarok is the music player of choice. However, the Amarok 2 series  introduced a radical change in Amarok for the earlier series and has  found many haters. As a result many people still refuse to upgrade to  Amarok 2 series and are sticking with Amarok 1.4. For those people who  wants to have Amarok 1.4 along with the new tecnologies that Qt4 brings,  there is a new music player called Clementine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clementine is basically a port of Amarok  1.4 to Qt4. Techie Buzz author, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/author\/sathya\/\" >Sathya Bhat<\/a>, has already <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/foss\/amarok-1-4-gets-ported-over-to-qt4-named-clementine.html\" >covered Clementine<\/a> when it was at a very early stage of development. Now, it has matured a bit more. Some of the features have been rewritten to take advantage  of new features provided by Qt4. Now with the new release, some new  features\/improvemnts have been added:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Album cover art is now automatically loaded from disk for your  library.<\/li>\n<li>Cover manager downloads missing covers from Last.fm.<\/li>\n<li>Covers for Last.fm radio tracks are shown in notifications.<\/li>\n<li>Much better \u201cVarious Artists\u201d detection.<\/li>\n<li>Shuffle and Repeat modes for the playlist.<\/li>\n<li>Playlist columns for albumartist, composer, file type, date<\/li>\n<li>Support for Media keys (play, stop, etc.) in Linux.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/ricky\/clementine1_png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"clementine1\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/ricky\/clementine1_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clementine provides a very simple and  no-frill interface which is extremely easy to use, just like the one you  get with Amarok 1.4. In fact, I think it is the exactly the same  interface that Amarok 1.4 had. For a software in such an early stage of  development, it is extremely stable. I have been using it since  yesterday and yet it has not crashed or hung or done anything of that  sort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/ricky\/clementine2_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"clementine5\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/ricky\/clementine2_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clementine has a dead simple  configuration editor, where even newbies will feel quite at home. Like  Amarok 2.3, it uses Knotify to notify about new song is played which is  much better than the OSD that Amarok 1.4 uses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Feature-wise, Clementine provides most  of the features that you would expect from Amarok 1.4. Of course, it  does not have stuffs like the applet supports that you get with Amarok 2  series, but users of Amarok 1.4 should be quite satified with the  features that it provides. However, it still does not have some very  basic things like iPod and MP3 player support. This can however be  overlooked for the time being as it is in early development stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A feature missing in Clementine that can  however cause problem is that there is no option to use an external  database instead of the default SQLite. With a large music library  SQLite tends to be slow, so with Amarok, I use an external MySQL  database to maintain my library. With Clementine I am forced to have  SQLite handling the entire library. However, if you have a relatively  small collection (from my experience i would say less than 10k songs),  this will not be a problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you would like to try it out you can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/opendesktop.org\/content\/show.php?content=120598\" >download the .deb file<\/a> and install it. It is  available for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. For Ubuntu, Karmic Koala  is the only supported version. Since it is Qt based you will also need  some KDE libraries to run it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[via <a href=\"http:\/\/digitizor.com\/2010\/03\/24\/review-of-clementine-0-2-music-player-in-ubuntu\/\" >Digitizor<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px\">\n<strong>Share:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/foss\/review-clementine-0-2-music-player-in-ubuntu.html#commentrespond\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Comment on This Post<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?source=techiebuzz&#038;status=%5bReview%5d%20Clementine%200.2%20Music%20Player%20in%20Ubuntu%20http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FdCWSKD%20via%20@techiebuzzer\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Tweet This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/foss\/review-clementine-0-2-music-player-in-ubuntu.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Share on Facebook<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/foss\/review-clementine-0-2-music-player-in-ubuntu.html&#038;title=%5bReview%5d%20Clementine%200.2%20Music%20Player%20in%20Ubuntu\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Save to Delicious<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/foss\/review-clementine-0-2-music-player-in-ubuntu.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Stumble This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&#038;url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/foss\/review-clementine-0-2-music-player-in-ubuntu.html&#038;title=%5bReview%5d%20Clementine%200.2%20Music%20Player%20in%20Ubuntu\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Digg This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/foss\/review-clementine-0-2-music-player-in-ubuntu.html&#038;title=%5bReview%5d%20Clementine%200.2%20Music%20Player%20in%20Ubuntu\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Reddit This<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong style=\"font-size:11px;\">TAGS:<\/strong> <span style=\"text-transform:uppercase;font-size:11px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/clementine\" rel=\"tag\">clementine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/music\" rel=\"tag\">Music<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/player\" rel=\"tag\">player<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/review\" rel=\"tag\">review<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">Ubuntu<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/small><\/div>\n<div>\n<br \/>\n<font size=\"4\"><strong>Announcement:<\/strong> Missing Mobile News in the Main RSS Feed? 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