Clementine (software)

{{Short description|Free and open source audio player}}

{{About|the music player|the data mining package formerly known as Clementine|SPSS Modeler}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Clementine

| logo = Clementine logo.svg

| screenshot = Clementine-1.2-Debian-it.png

| caption = Clementine running in Debian

| author = David Sansome, John Maguire{{citation |url=https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/blob/master/src/ui/about.cpp |title=about.cpp file |work=Clementine |publisher=github.com |accessdate=2016-07-27}}

| developer = Paweł Bara, Arnaud Bienner

| released = February, 2010

| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1100372|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q1100372|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q1100372|P348|P548=Q51930650}}

| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q1100372|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}

| programming language = C++ (Qt){{citation |url=https://openhub.net/p/clementine-player |publisher=Ohloh |work=Analysis Summary |title=Clementine Music Player |accessdate=2012-09-13}}

| operating system = Windows, macOS, Linux

| platform =

| size = Windows: 21 MB
macOS: 31 MB
Unix-like: 6 MB

| language = English, Igbo

| genre = Audio player

| license = GPL-3.0-or-later

| website = {{URL|https://www.clementine-player.org}}

}}

Clementine is a free and open-source audio player. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows, and macOS operating systems.{{citation |url=https://builds.clementine-player.org/ |title=Downloads |work=Clementine |publisher=clementine-player.org |accessdate=2016-07-27}} Clementine is released under the terms of the GPL-3.0-or-later.{{citation |url=https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/blob/master/COPYING |title=License |work=Clementine |publisher=github.com |accessdate=2016-07-27}}

Clementine was created due to the transition from version 1.4 to version 2 of Amarok, and the shift of focus connected with it, which was criticized by many users. The first version of Clementine was released in February 2010.{{citation |url=https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-announce-apps/2010-February/004398.html |title=Clementine 0.1 |author=David Sansome |publisher=KDE Mailing Lists |date=2010-02-22 |accessdate=2012-10-29}}

The last stable release of Clementine was in 2016, but development has since resumed on GitHub, with a number of release candidate versions published. On 15 October 2024, the first non-RC release since 2016 was published.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-22 |title=Clementine Music Player Is Kind of Back After 8 Years! |url=https://news.itsfoss.com/clementine-music-player-back/ |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=It's FOSS News |language=en}}

In 2018, a fork of Clementine named Strawberry Music Player was released. It includes some differences such as being compatible with Qt 6, more focus on local music playback, playback of high-resolution audio sources (HD audio) without resampling and fewer dependencies on libraries and third-party code{{Cite web |last=Wohlscheid |first=John |date=2019-04-22 |title=Strawberry: A Fork of Clementine Music Player |url=https://itsfoss.com/strawberry-music-player/ |access-date=2024-05-05 |website=It's FOSS |language=en}}