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Clementine is a free and open-source 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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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. In 2018, a fork of Clementine named ''Strawberry Music Player'' was released.


Features

Clementine has the ability to stream audio from services such as
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SoundCloud SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform and music sharing website that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio. Founded in 2007 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, SoundCloud is one of the largest music streaming s ...
and
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, as well as 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 playlists. * Tabbed playlists, import and export as
M3U M3U (''MP3 URL'' or Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator in full) is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. One common use of the M3U file format is creating a single-entry playlist file pointing to a st ...
, XSPF, PLS,
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and Cue sheets. *
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music into
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), FLAC, AAC 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 command-line interface. *
Moodbar Moodbar is a computer visualization used for navigating within a piece of music or any other recording on a digital audio track. This is done with a commonly horizontal bar that is divided into vertical stripes. Each stripe has a colour combinati ...
visualizations. * Save statistics to file.


See also

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References


External links

* {{Media player (application software), free 2010 software Applications using D-Bus Audio player software that uses Qt Free audio software Free media players Free software programmed in C++ Linux media players macOS media players Software that uses GStreamer Windows multimedia software