Clementine 1.3 A Modern Music Player for Linux

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Clementine is a freely available cross-platform open source, Qt based music player inspired by Amarok 1.4. The latest stable available which is version 1.3 was released after a year of development and comes with Vk.com and Seafile support along with numerous other enhancements and bug fixes. This article explains about how to install Clementine music player.

Features

• It will search and play local music library
• You can listen to online Radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Soundcloud, Icecast, etc.
• We can play songs from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.
• Sidebar information pane with songs, lyrics, artist biographies and pictures.
• It creates smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
• It transfers music in iPod, iPhone or storage etc.
• Search and download podcast.

Installing Clementine

To install clementine, you should add stable PPA as shown below –

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine

The sample output should be like this –

 
More info: http://bit.ly/1T9z0cB
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmppbof_syf/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmppbof_syf/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 044A3B98 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmppbof_syf/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 044A3B98: public key "Launchpad Clementine Stable" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Now update the index as shown below –

$ sudo apt-get update

To install clementine, use the following command –

$ sudo apt-get install clementine

The sample output should be like this –

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apport-hooks-elementary contractor javascript-common libgda-5.0-4
  libgda-5.0-common libgranite-common libgranite3 libgsignon-glib1
  libindicate5 libjs-jquery libnoise-core0 libtagc0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libcrypto++9v5 libechonest2.3 liblastfm1 libqjson0 libqt4-opengl
  projectm-data
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  clementine libcrypto++9v5 libechonest2.3 liblastfm1 libqjson0 libqt4-opengl
  projectm-data
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 142 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,212 kB of archives.
After this operation, 32.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://bit.ly/1rEZidB xenial/universe amd64 libqjson0 amd64 0.8.1-3 [63.7 kB]
Get:2 http://bit.ly/1T9z249 xenial/main amd64 clementine amd64 1.3.1~xenial [5,418 kB]
Get:3 http://bit.ly/1rEZidB xenial/universe amd64 libcrypto++9v5 amd64 5.6.1-9 [885 kB]
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To open clementine, use the following command –

$ clementine

The sample output should be like this –

To get more information about clementine, use the following command –

$ clementine -h

The sample output should be like this –

Usage: clementine [options] [URL(s)]

Player options:
  -p, --play                Start the playlist currently playing
  -t, --play-pause          Play if stopped, pause if playing
  -u, --pause               Pause playback
  -s, --stop                Stop playback
  -r, --previous            Skip backwards in playlist
  -f, --next                Skip forwards in playlist
  -v, --volume       Set the volume to  percent
  --volume-up               Increase the volume by 4%
  --volume-down             Decrease the volume by 4%
  --volume-increase-by      Increase the volume by  percent
  --volume-decrease-by      Decrease the volume by  percent
  --seek-to        Seek the currently playing track to an absolute position
  --seek-by        Seek the currently playing track by a relative amount
  --restart-or-previous     Restart the track, or play the previous track if within 8 seconds of start.

Playlist options:
  -a, --append              Append files/URLs to the playlist
  -l, --load                Loads files/URLs, replacing current playlist
  -k, --play-track       Play the th track in the playlist

Other options:
  -o, --show-osd            Display the on-screen-display
  -y, --toggle-pretty-osd   Toggle visibility for the pretty on-screen-display
  -g, --language      Change the language
      --quiet               Equivalent to --log-levels *:1
      --verbose             Equivalent to --log-levels *:3
      --log-levels  Comma separated list of class:level, level is 0-3
      --version             Print out version information

After this article, you will be able to understand – “How to install Clementine 1.3 for Linux” . In our next articles, we will come up with more Linux based tricks and tips. Keep reading!

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