Clementine 0.7 Comes With Reworked Tag Editor, .Cue Support

Clementine - a Qt music player with some very interesting features - has reached version 0.7, getting some cool new features like a new edit track info dialog which allows you to edit more fields, change multiple songs at once, change cover art and even an option to identify songs and fill tags using MusicBrainz, support for .cue files and more.

(The new Clementine "Track Info Dialog")

Other new features include:

• album covers in the library view
• "Duplicates only" and "Untagged songs only" views
• a "Full library rescan" option which should rescan your library much more thoroughly than before
• "Show in file browser" option
• support for network proxies
• global shortcuts for rating songs, repeat and shuffle modes

And many many other minor improvements that will make your life easier (like Middle-clicking a song now enqueues it into the playlist, you can now tell the library scanner which filenames it should prefer when looking for album cover art).

Install Clementine 0.7 in Ubuntu

The Clementine stable PPA hasn't been updated yet but if you're using the Clementine-dev PPA you should already have the latest 0.7 (but using the Clementine-dev PPA is probably not a good idea unless you like testing bleeding-edge software).

Until the Clementine stable PPA is updated, you can download Clementine 0.7 from Google Code.

Clementine 0.6 Stable Has Been Released

We've already covered all the new features in Clementine 0.6 (release candidate at the time) so this post is just a small update to let you know that Clementine 0.6 stable has been released. There are no new features since the RC, only bug fixes.

You can download Clementine binaries (.deb, .rpm, .exe and .dmg) via its Google Code page.

You can also add the Clementine stable PPA (which doesn't include Clementine 0.6 yet) to stay up to date with future versions:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine
sudo apt-get update

Clementine 0.6 RC Adds Ubuntu Sound Menu Integration, Smart And Dynamic Playlists, Lots More

Clementine, the Qt port of Amarok 1.4 got a huge list of new features in the latest 0.6 release candidate version.

The most important new features are Ubuntu sound menu integration, smart and dynamic playlists and 2 new info tabs for the currently playing song (lyrics fetched from 17 different websites, statistics, play counts and tags from Last.fm, Wiki from Last.fm) and artist (contains lots of interesting info like photos, biographies from Wikipedia, Last.fm, Amazon and more as well as similar artists).

(Clementine - Ubuntu sound menu integration)

(Artist info tab)

Other changes in the latest Clementine 0.6 RC: redesigned sidebar, monochrome panel icons, ratings, play counts and skip counts to the library, and remember when a song was last played, Jamendo support, custom Last.fm radio stations as well as a directory of Icecast radio stations that has been added to the Internet tab.

Besides all the cool new features, Clementine also looks better then ever. But don't take my word for it - try Clementine for yourself!

Note: in the second screenshot you see both a panel icon and a sound menu entry for Clemnentine - the panel icon can be disabled from the options.

Download Clementine (make sure you download the .deb files for your Ubuntu version - Lucid or Maverick) | Clementine Development PPA