![]() ![]() It is available in the official software repositories so it's easy to install it with Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center. We've installed and tested Clementine on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). Therefore, they've created a new software, based on Amarok 1.4, while tring to conserve a way of listening to music that has been proven to work. The developers of Clementine were upset, like many others, with the way Amarok 2.0 looked like and (probably) with the direction of its development. The software is based on the 1.4 branch of the popular Amarok audio player. I guess that Clementine is the result of such thinking. Maybe it's my conservatory nature, but I believe that the evolution needs to be done in small steps and not by adopting something that on the surface looks pretty, and in reality is just a nice shell for a mediocre software. I find them cumbersome and with a lot of useless features, no to mention a faulty design. ![]() Ever since I switched to Ubuntu a few years ago, I tried to get rid of the music players Canonical selects for its operating system, first Rythmbox, then Banshee. It represents what music players should be and not what they have become in the past years, with the advent of multimedia complete alternatives. Clementine is a free and open source music player built with one foot in the past and the other in the future.
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