Clementine: A triumph of Free Software

“Ages ago, in the long-forgotten days of 2008, there was Amarok
1.4. And it was good. Then KDE4 came along and Amarok was
rewritten, reshaped, becoming something… different. Something
unsettling. Something not altogether pleasant.

“Fear not. Today we have Clementine.

“I consider Clementine a triumph of Free Software. A great
project fell off the rails, so someone else picked up the pieces,
forked it and kept the spirit alive. Features present

“Clementine embodies everything good about Amarok 1.4, in a
shiny Qt4 package. The layout is eminently pleasant to use. It uses
the classic “spreadsheet” playlist view that saw so much success in
Amarok 1.4. If you care about cramming as much information about
your music as possible onto the screen, this is as good as it gets.
It’s boring, and that’s a good thing. It gets the job done.”

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