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Clementine Music Player

Clementine Music Player is a music player, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: playlists, data import and export, lyrics display.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Clementine Music Player is a music player, available on Windows, macOS and Linux. Other documented uses: radio listening.

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: playlists, data import and export, lyrics display.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Plays music files and Internet radio” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Cross-platform music player software.” — Wikidata, 10 November 2026
  • “Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Lyrics and artist biographies and photos” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Clementine Music Player is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. Search and play your local music library Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers Search and play songs you've uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX CUE sheet support Play audio CDs Visualisations from projectM Lyrics and artist biographies and photos Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz Discover and download Podcasts Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl) Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player Queue manager

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Homebrew (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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