Clementine For Linux

Inspired by Amarok 1.4 (the very popular and highly acclaimed audio player), Clementine is an open-source, cross-platform, and feature-packed music player/organizer.

There's very little that Clementine can't do. With its help, you can search, play, and organize your local music library, listen to Internet radio stations from some of the most popular music streaming services, create dynamic and smart playlists, as well as playback songs from external devices and cloud services.

Being a fork of the 1.X line of Amarok, it's somewhat understandable why Clementine looks the way it does. In short, it's nothing worth writing home bout in terms of looks, as it favors usability and functionality over the latest modern design trends.

Even though the project has one of the slowest development ever (last updated in 2016-2017), it still works great even on the latest versions of Ubuntu, which is surprising.

It's also not exactly what one might call customizable or flexbile. Clementine's Settings section is indeed bulky and impressive, but you can' rearrange GUI elements, for instance. At least the native notifications for Linux (libnotify) still work as intended.

One of the highlights of the app is just how good it is at helping you organize your library based on tags. The search engine is also very good.

Another nice-to-have feature is the built-in format conversion tool. This allows you to transcode music files to other formats (such as MP3, OGG Vorbis, OGG Speex, FLAC or AAC) without having to leave the app.

In terms of supported Internet radios we can mention Spotify, Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast, and Subsonic servers.

We mentioned that Clementine also works with cloud services. You can search and play songs to Box, Dropbox, GoogleDrive, and OneDrive.

Other similar features include the ability to automatically retrieve missing tags from MusicBrainz, discover and download podcasts, download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon (however, this feature might not work nowadays).

Clementine also allows you to synchronize music to and from iPods, iPhones and MTP or mass-storage USB players.

Clementine used to be "the baddest" music player out there, however, because the stalemate development situation, it may not be the perfect solution for everyone.

Still, it seems it's still a decent music player for users who don't care much about looks and a few bugs here and there.