Posted on 04/19/2016 3:41:47 AM PDT by markomalley
Can you believe that its been over 2 years since the last stable release of Clementine?
Its also been over 4 years since we last mentioned the popular open-source music player on this site!
Ripened for release this weekend, Clementine 1.3 brings a punnets worth of improvements, features and bug fixes to the cross-platform Qt-based music player.
It is also the first release of the app to formally support Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, which is due for release next week.
More than 150 changes are present in all, with some of the more notable being:
Podcast management also sees a selection of improvements:
The app has also been updated to support GStreamer 1.0 and version 1.10.0 of the Taglib meta-data editor.
But its not all spit and polish. Some features are removed as part of the update, including integration with Canonicals defunct Ubuntu One service and the recently retired Grooveshark music streaming service. Online music database Discogs is no longer used to fetch missing album artwork.
The full change-log for this release is available view on GitHub and gives a thorough overview of all the changes to ship in this update.
The official Clementine website hosts installer downloads for a number of Linux distributions, including .deb packages for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and up.
As a cross-platform app you can also download a Windows installers (including a portable version) and a Mac OS X disk image.
Prepare to use PPAs?
Add the official Clementine PPA to get this latest version, plus automatically receive any subsequent releases as and when theyre made.
To add install Clementine from PPA run the following commands in a new terminal window:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install clementine
Once install has completed you will be able to open Clementine from the Unity Dash (or an equivalent app launcher).
Foobar 2000 and MediaMonkey are better at library management if you have a large music library.
Thank you, I will check it out.
CGato
QMMP is a simple WinAmp shell for Linux, you can even use the WinAmp skins ;^)
BFLR
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