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Clementine for Mac

Queue-based music player with Spotify, Last.fm and Growl support.

Free
In English
Version 1.3.1
3.7
Based on 48 user rates

Clementine overview

Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer.

Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

  • Search and play your local music library.
  • Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers.
  • Search and play songs you've uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive
  • Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
  • Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
  • CUE sheet support.
  • Play audio CDs.
  • Visualisations from projectM.
  • Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
  • Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
  • Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music.
  • Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
  • Discover and download Podcasts.
  • Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
  • Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
  • Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl).
  • Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
  • Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
  • Queue manager.

What’s new in version 1.3.1

Version 1.3.1:
Major Features
  • Vk.com support
  • Seafile support (server >= 4.4.1)
  • Add Ampache compatibility (through Subsonic service)
  • Add new analyzer "Rainbow Dash"
  • Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything
  • Add "Psychedelic Colour" mode to all analyzers
Other Features
  • Add left click to fullsize cover on playing widget
  • Add m4b support for non-drm files
  • Ignore English articles for library sorting
  • Improve the organize dialog
  • Add an option to warn before closing a playlist tab
  • Add an option to disable the pause notification
  • Add options to hide some internet services
  • Add an option to disable inline song metadata editing
  • Add "details below" and "no details" now playing widget options
  • Add "no song details" now playing widget option
  • Add icons to the extras menu
  • Add a source icon for CD tracks
  • Allow user to remove directories in the Files tab
  • Add ability to remove unavailable items from playlist
  • Add a button to the transcode dialog to add all files in a directory
  • Make it impossible to collapse either side of the MainWindow splitter
  • Add menu items for updating and doing a full rescan of Google Drive
  • Increase Soundcloud cover image size
  • Add the ability to pause Spotify tracks
  • Add the ability to add or remove a Spotify track to a Spotify playlist through context menu
  • Add Spotify tracks to Spotify playlists by drag and drop
  • Add ability to get a link to share Spotify playlists and songs
  • Improve handling of Spotify Top Tracks and compilations
  • Add playlist actions to Spotify songs
  • Add ability to automatically set podcast as listened after successfully sending it to a device
  • Add ability to order podcasts by age
  • Allow user to download multiple podcasts at the same time
  • Add ability to cancel podcast downloads in progress
  • Allow user to hide listened podcast episodes
  • Huge improvement of the speed at startup
  • Improve performance of mass rating changes
  • Improve ripping performance
  • Persistent cache for pixmaps. Huge improvement of the performance when scrolling the library for example
  • Add AppData file for Clementine (for GNOME and KDE Software Centers)
  • Add iPod-like behaviour to previous button
  • Add HipHop and Kuduro equalizers
  • Remember current playlist between restarts
  • IDv3 tag lyrics support
  • Scroll to last played track when switching playlists
  • Add stop after each song repeat mode
  • Sort discs numerically when using Group by disc
  • Add ability for sort by group and performer in the library view
  • Parse the year of a disc from musicbrainz
  • Add track intro mode
  • Add ability to add a search term with tab and space in the smart playlist window
  • Add love/ban (Last.fm) global shortcuts
  • Add support for "original year" tags
  • Send album artist to Last.fm with liblastfm >= 1.0.0
  • Add sample rate selection
  • Add option to change the time step when seeking using the keyboard
  • Playlist sort by album considers disc and track numbers
  • Add options for double clicking song in the playlist
  • Volume slider handles glow effect using system theme
  • Library view sort line themable
  • Show track durations in the CD ripper dialog
  • Add ability to read REM DISC tag from Cue sheet
  • Add ability to lock/unlock rating edit status
  • Add the support of trackNum elements in XSPF
  • Add support for inhibiting the screensaver on windows
  • Add "Smart Playlists" for Subsonic
  • Add lyrics from AZLyrics
  • Add lyrics from bollywoodlyrics.com
  • Add lyrics from hindilyrics.net
  • Add lyrics from lololyrics.com
  • Add lyrics from Musixmatch
  • Add lyrics from Tekstowo.pl
  • Use Alt+Tab to switch between playlist tabs
Bug Fixes
  • Fix crash when click on a SoundCloud entry in internet tab
  • Fix crash when marking podcast as listened
  • Fix crash after pressing OK in the device properties window
  • Fix stop after track which doesn't remove now playing
  • Fix play bleeding into next track after auto stop
  • Fix analyzer framerate when mouseover play scrubber
  • Fix issues with buffers sent to analyzer
  • Fix block analyzer framerate
  • Fix divide-by-zero possibility with small buffers at end of track
  • Fix divide-by-zero possibility in moodbar
  • Fix oversized album cover art
  • Clean cover art from /tmp
  • Fix the rendering of the little numbers in the boxes on queued items in the playlist
  • Fix parsing of MusicBrainz data for discid
  • Fix random artifacting on nyanalyzer on startup
  • Fix podcasts length issues (which caused issues with seeking for example)
  • Fix too small equalizer window size
  • Fix labels which don't inherit system text colors in the edit tag dialog
  • Fix the mess of the queue manager after playlist re-sort
  • Fix for queue ordering issue in the playlist view when using Ctrl+D to dequeue a track
  • Fix detection of parent-relative paths in playlist saving
  • Fix path seperators issue when reading playlists
  • Fix m3u parser issue when an artist's name has a hyphen
  • Fix bug with percents when fetch the Jamendo catalogue
  • Fix a little dropout when transition to next track
  • Fix broken RockRadio.com for premium users
  • Fix Subsonic login with + characters in the password
  • Fix accents issue in when save playlist in xspf format
  • Fix issues with some songs length thanks to Taglib. People with Taglib installed on their system will have to wait a new release of Taglib
  • Fix moodbars not generating correctly
  • Fix socket leak in moodbar
  • Fix memory leak in tagreader
  • Fix crash when trying to fingerprint but missing a plugin
  • Fix infinite scan with Subsonic when the library is empty
  • Fix shortcut/media keys issues on Mac
  • Fix compilation issues on Yosemite
  • Fix performer tag for mpeg
  • Fix parsing issues with "innovative" datetime formats
  • Fix laggy interface on Mac
  • Fix playback breaks in Spotify
  • Fix memory leaks
  • Fix crash when stopping song that is fading after pausing
  • Fix crash when trying to download a track but there is no current one playing
  • Fix default spinner gif image which shows white pixels around the image
  • Fix setting album artist tag for FLAC files if it already exists
  • Fix crash when Clementine lists the albums on Ampache
  • Fix Last.fm scrobbling after seek
  • Fix metadata not processed properly for some streams (Akamai)
  • Fix save state when the song was paused
  • Fix some issues in Boom and Turbine analyzers
  • Fix song continuously rewinding when seeking using keyboard arrow keys
  • Fix OSD re-posistioning which doesn't work on multiple monitors
  • Fix Sonogram state while paused
  • Fix crash when changing 'group by' while album covers are still loading
  • Fix loss of valid data from an mp3 file when using the metadata editor
  • Fix track slider twitching
  • Fix Di.fm stations stuck when try to play them without internet
  • Make mood files hidden in NTFS
  • Fix time labels blinking when playing streams without known duration
  • Fix tag fetcher which applies incorrect tags for songs without any results
  • Fix Clementine getting stuck when transitioning from a local track to a Spotify track with crossfade disabled
  • Fix previous track when playing a dynamic random mix
  • Fix fullscreen album covers for monitors in portrait mode
  • Don't scale down star icons by 1 pixel
  • Fix Soundcloud API Search which simply doesn't work
Removed Features
  • Remove Ubuntu One support
  • Remove Discogs support
  • Remove GrooveShark support
  • Remove Radio GFM support
Build-System Changes
  • Update to gstreamer 1.0
  • Don't compile vreen with link-time optimizations
  • Use the system's sha2 library if it's available
  • Remove libindicate-qt
  • Remove internal copy of libechonest and add it as dependency
  • Use libcrypto++ instead of QCA
  • Update TagLib to 1.10.0
  • Use a GTlsDatabase for gstreamer SSL

Clementine for Mac

Free
In English
Version 1.3.1
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scion777-1
scion777-1
Oct 31 2023
1.3.1
0.0
Oct 31 2023
0.0
Version: 1.3.1
will not run on Mac OS 14.1 Sonoma - crashes on launch!! ALERT! MacUpdate Admin
Filou53
Filou53
Oct 10 2020
1.3.1
0.0
Oct 10 2020
0.0
Version: 1.3.1
Seems to be discontinued ... An Alternative is maybe Strawberry ( https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ ) - it's a fork of Clementine
kingjj
kingjj
Oct 1 2020
1.3.1
4.5
Oct 1 2020
4.5
Version: 1.3.1
https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org
asjunttila
asjunttila
Sep 1 2020
1.3.1
1.0
Sep 1 2020
1.0
Version: 1.3.1
Not visual interface. Very small font. Many bugs on macOS. In the new version 1.4, the font has become even more illegible and gray/dull! Sucks application!
desidjevents
desidjevents
Feb 12 2020
1.3.1
1.0
Feb 12 2020
1.0
Version: 1.3.1
TRASH Program - CRASHES constantly when changing tracks. Too risky to use for a live DJ event for even background music.
asjunttila
asjunttila
Sep 1 2020
1.0
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