There's also a cover manager which, to me, is useless. Other times it finds nothing and then i still have to type everything manually. Tagging works the same as in Amarok and it's pretty cool that you can get all the tags online. It also has an integrated audio converter and tag editor. Clementine can rip audio cd's in various file formats. But if i want a playlist with songs that i haven't heard already but that still match some criteria (for an example, 50's R&B) it will be a problem to make it. When i know how i want my playlist to look like i can make it easily and quickly. What i mean by that is, if you don't know what do you want to hear you will probably end up not playing anything. Building a playlist is simple and easy but not exciting. Also it uses only about 70 - 75 MB of RAM when playing which is much less than Amarok. The first thing i've noticed when using it is how faster it is compared to Amarok. As i've said, Clementine can play your audio files (supports all common file formats, but i couldn't make it play m4a), stream from online services or sync your audio devices. Aesthetically it can not compete against most of the players i've tried so far. It's very basic but it offers everything you'd expect from an audio player. You can browse your library, your computer, play from online sources or sync your audio device. More to the left are the sources from which you want to play your music. At the top of that there's a search button which is pretty handy because scrolling through the library can be very tedious. On the left hand side there's a list of all the artists in the library and clicking on it shows you all the albums and songs from that artist. That's fine, i can clearly see what's playing at the moment and all the info about the song.

The biggest portion of the screen is used by playlist. Compared to Amarok, Clementine does offer some level of freedom in changing the interface but compared to other players like WinAmp or MusicBee that's still not much. Since i've reviewed that one already, i really looked forward to compare it to its offspring.

Clementine is an open-source audio player based on Amarok. Some time ago when i was still a Linux user i gave advantage to Amarok (probably because of the name and the icon). I finally got an opportunity to taste this thing.

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