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Clementine Changelog

What's new in Clementine 1.3.1

Apr 20, 2016
  • Fixes a bug where ratings are deleted when upgrading from older versions.

New in Clementine 1.3.0 (Apr 16, 2016)

  • Adds Vk.com and Seafile support.

New in Clementine 1.3 RC 1 (Jan 2, 2016)

  • Major features:
  • Vk.com support
  • Seafile support (server >= 4.4.1)
  • Amazon Cloud Drive support
  • Add Ampache compatibility (through Subsonic service)
  • Add new analyzer "Rainbow Dash"
  • Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything
  • Add "Psychedelic Colour" mode to all analyzers
  • Other features:
  • Add left click to fullsize cover on playing widget.
  • Add m4b support for non-drm files.
  • Ignore English articles for library sorting.
  • Improve the organize dialog.
  • Add an option to warn before closing a playlist tab.
  • Add an option to disable the pause notification.
  • Add options to hide some internet services.
  • Add an option to disable inline song metadata editing.
  • Add "details below" and "no details" now playing widget options.
  • Add "no song details" now playing widget option.
  • Add icons to the extras menu.
  • Add a source icon for CD tracks.
  • Allow user to remove directories in the Files tab.
  • Add ability to remove unavailable items from playlist.
  • Add a button to the transcode dialog to add all files in a directory.
  • Make it impossible to collapse either side of the MainWindow splitter.
  • Add menu items for updating and doing a full rescan of Google Drive.
  • Increase Soundcloud cover image size.
  • Add the ability to pause Spotify tracks.
  • Add the ability to add or remove a Spotify track to a Spotify playlist through context menu.
  • Add Spotify tracks to Spotify playlists by drag and drop.
  • Add ability to get a link to share Spotify playlists and songs.
  • Improve handling of Spotify Top Tracks and compilations.
  • Add playlist actions to Spotify songs.
  • Add ability to automatically set podcast as listened after successfully sending it to a device.
  • Add ability to order podcasts by age.
  • Allow user to download multiple podcasts at the same time.
  • Add ability to cancel podcast downloads in progress.
  • Allow user to hide listened podcast episodes.
  • Huge improvement of the speed at startup.
  • Improve performance of mass rating changes.
  • Improve ripping performance.
  • Persistent cache for pixmaps. Huge improvement of the performance when scrolling the library for example.
  • Add AppData file for Clementine (for GNOME and KDE Software Centers).
  • Add iPod-like behaviour to previous button.
  • Add HipHop and Kuduro equalizers.
  • Remember current playlist between restarts.
  • IDv3 tag lyrics support.
  • Scroll to last played track when switching playlists.
  • Add stop after each song repeat mode.
  • Sort discs numerically when using Group by disc.
  • Add ability for sort by group and performer in the library view.
  • Parse the year of a disc from musicbrainz.
  • Add track intro mode.
  • Add ability to add a search term with tab and space in the smart playlist window.
  • Add love/ban (Last.fm) global shortcuts.
  • Add support for "original year" tags.
  • Send album artist to Last.fm with liblastfm >= 1.0.0.
  • Add sample rate selection.
  • Add option to change the time step when seeking using the keyboard.
  • Playlist sort by album considers disc and track numbers.
  • Add options for double clicking song in the playlist.
  • Volume slider handles glow effect using system theme.
  • Library view sort line themable.
  • Show track durations in the CD ripper dialog.
  • Add ability to read REM DISC tag from Cue sheet.
  • Add ability to lock/unlock rating edit status.
  • Add the support of trackNum elements in XSPF.
  • Add support for inhibiting the screensaver on windows.
  • Add "Smart Playlists" for Subsonic.
  • Add lyrics from AZLyrics.
  • Add lyrics from bollywoodlyrics.com.
  • Add lyrics from hindilyrics.net.
  • Add lyrics from lololyrics.com.
  • Add lyrics from Musixmatch.
  • Add lyrics from Tekstowo.pl.
  • (Mac OS X) Use Alt+Tab to switch between playlist tabs.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix crash when click on a SoundCloud entry in internet tab.
  • Fix crash when marking podcast as listened.
  • Fix crash after pressing OK in the device properties window.
  • Fix stop after track which doesn't remove now playing.
  • Fix play bleeding into next track after auto stop.
  • Fix analyzer framerate when mouseover play scrubber.
  • Fix issues with buffers sent to analyzer.
  • Fix block analyzer framerate.
  • Fix divide-by-zero possibility with small buffers at end of track.
  • Fix divide-by-zero possibility in moodbar.
  • Fix oversized album cover art.
  • Clean cover art from /tmp.
  • Fix the rendering of the little numbers in the boxes on queued items in the playlist.
  • Fix parsing of MusicBrainz data for discid.
  • Fix random artifacting on nyanalyzer on startup.
  • Fix podcasts length issues (which caused issues with seeking for example).
  • Fix too small equalizer window size.
  • Fix labels which don't inherit system text colors in the edit tag dialog.
  • Fix the mess of the queue manager after playlist re-sort.
  • Fix for queue ordering issue in the playlist view when using Ctrl+D to dequeue a track.
  • Fix detection of parent-relative paths in playlist saving.
  • Fix path seperators issue when reading playlists.
  • Fix m3u parser issue when an artist's name has a hyphen.
  • Fix bug with percents when fetch the Jamendo catalogue.
  • Fix a little dropout when transition to next track.
  • Fix broken RockRadio.com for premium users.
  • Fix Subsonic login with + characters in the password.
  • Fix accents issue in when save playlist in xspf format.
  • Fix issues with some songs length thanks to Taglib. People with Taglib installed on their system will have to wait a new release of Taglib.
  • Fix moodbars not generating correctly.
  • Fix socket leak in moodbar.
  • Fix memory leak in tagreader.
  • Fix crash when trying to fingerprint but missing a plugin.
  • Fix infinite scan with Subsonic when the library is empty.
  • Fix shortcut/media keys issues on Mac.
  • Fix compilation issues on Yosemite.
  • Fix performer tag for mpeg.
  • Fix parsing issues with "innovative" datetime formats.
  • Fix laggy interface on Mac.
  • Fix playback breaks in Spotify.
  • Fix memory leaks.
  • Fix crash when stopping song that is fading after pausing.
  • Fix crash when trying to download a track but there is no current one playing.
  • Fix default spinner gif image which shows white pixels around the image.
  • Fix setting album artist tag for FLAC files if it already exists.
  • Fix crash when Clementine lists the albums on Ampache.
  • Fix Last.fm scrobbling after seek.
  • Fix metadata not processed properly for some streams (Akamai).
  • Fix save state when the song was paused.
  • Fix some issues in Boom and Turbine analyzers.
  • Fix song continuously rewinding when seeking using keyboard arrow keys.
  • Fix OSD re-posistioning which doesn't work on multiple monitors.
  • Fix Sonogram state while paused.
  • Fix crash when changing 'group by' while album covers are still loading.
  • Fix loss of valid data from an mp3 file when using the metadata editor.
  • Fix track slider twitching.
  • Fix Di.fm stations stuck when try to play them without internet.
  • Make mood files hidden in NTFS.
  • Fix time labels blinking when playing streams without known duration.
  • Fix tag fetcher which applies incorrect tags for songs without any results.
  • Fix Clementine getting stuck when transitioning from a local track to a Spotify track with crossfade disabled.
  • Fix previous track when playing a dynamic random mix.
  • Fix fullscreen album covers for monitors in portrait mode.
  • Don't scale down star icons by 1 pixel.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix Soundcloud API Search which simply doesn't work
  • Removed features:
  • Remove Ubuntu One support.
  • Remove Discogs support.
  • Remove GrooveShark support.
  • Remove Radio GFM support.
  • Build system changes:
  • Update to gstreamer 1.0.
  • Don't compile vreen with link-time optimizations.
  • Use the system's sha2 library if it's available.
  • Remove libindicate-qt.
  • Remove internal copy of libechonest and add it as dependency.
  • Use libcrypto++ instead of QCA.
  • Update TagLib to 1.10.0.
  • (Mac OS X) Use a GTlsDatabase for gstreamer SSL.

New in Clementine 1.2.2 (Feb 20, 2014)

  • Major features:
  • (Android Remote) Add kittens support.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Rename SkyDrive to OneDrive.
  • Don't include the user's IP address in the log (from the network remote settings dialog).
  • (Debian) Fix a bug with HTTPS logins to all cloud storage providers.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix a bug in the workaround for a weird font issue on 10.9.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix rendering of source icons on retina displays.
  • (Android Remote) Don't advertise songs that aren't available.
  • (Android Remote) Fix playing songs with special characters in filenames.

New in Clementine 1.2.1 (Dec 16, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix library download in the network remote.
  • Fix removing songs from playlist in the network remote.
  • Fix login failures with box.com.
  • (Mac OS X) Add a workaround for a weird font issue on 10.9.
  • (Linux) Fix a typo that would prevent the Spotify downloader button from ever being shown.

New in Clementine 1.2.0 (Oct 15, 2013)

  • Major features:
  • Add support for indexing and playing music from Box, Dropbox, Skydrive,
  • and Ubuntu One.
  • Add support for Subsonic.
  • Remote control support for Android.
  • Add a Playlist tab to the sidebar. Starred playlists are saved in here
  • when their tabs are closed.
  • Other features:
  • Add configurable blur & opacity to album art when used as a playlist
  • background.
  • Support Opus where available.
  • Support .mka and .oga file extensions.
  • Parsing support for WPL playlists.
  • Sort providers by user preference.
  • Add year and bitrate to MPRIS2 messages.
  • Add "not equals" operator to fields in the smart playlist wizard.
  • Add an option to write ratings, play count and scores to files.
  • Add options to show the rating and score on the OSD.
  • Add support for POPM tags.
  • Add support for FMPS tags in Ogg, FLAC, MP4 and ASF files.
  • Compile the bundled Taglib with ASF, MP4 and Opus support.
  • Make it possible to cancel cover searches.
  • Add an option to resume playback on startup.
  • Add support for Performer and Grouping tags.
  • Add Radio GFM.
  • Add an Apply button to the settings dialog.
  • Make it possible to mark all episodes of a podcast as new/listened.
  • Add an option for fading in/out on pause/unpause.
  • Add stereo balance slider to the equalizer.
  • Add a --restart-or-previous commandline flag.
  • Allow files to be transcoded directly from the playlist.
  • Export downloaded album covers
  • Removed features:
  • Removed iDevice support - it doesn't work well with modern devices and
  • libgpod isn't being updated to support them.
  • (Windows) Removed support for WMDM devices. This was very fragile to
  • cross-compile and was buggy and untested.
  • (Mac OS X) Removed support for 10.6. OS X 10.7 or later is now required.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fix gapless playback!
  • Detect corrupt FLAC files when parsing tags.
  • Load tags from local files asynchronously.
  • Show more than 5 album results at a time from Spotify.
  • Detect last.fm login failures correctly.
  • Support x-audio/mime types for podcasts.
  • Locale-aware library sorting.
  • Remove duplicate tracks from Spotify search results.
  • Do not fetch Magnatune library until the service is expanded.
  • Sort Magnatune library after refresh.
  • Make the playlist parser recognise 2 character URL schemes.
  • Read and write more metadata for MP4 tags.
  • Translate Unity quicklist actions.
  • Fix a memory leak when fingerprinting songs.
  • Preserve user stats when opening the edit tag dialog.
  • Fix neverending task when a Grooveshark session is invalid.
  • Elide the fancy sidebar text on the right instead of the middle.
  • Increase the maximum size of the moodbar cache.
  • Use a new Amazon access key.
  • Select the next tab when a playlist tab is closed.
  • Fix radio playlists in non-English locales.
  • Fix cursor following playback.
  • Hide moodbar playlist column by default.
  • Use native language names in the language selector where available.
  • Only show a tooltip on sidebar tabs when needed.
  • Never start playing a background stream (like Hypnotoad) on startup.
  • Run the moodbar generation at a lower CPU and IO priority.
  • Pressing space with the seekbar focused now toggles play/pause.
  • Update tray icon progress immediately on track change.
  • Don't replace song metadata with blank m3u EXTINF metadata.
  • Fix a bug when fingerprinting files with non-ascii characters.
  • Fix occasional freezing analyzers.
  • Make wheel events on the analyzer change the volume.
  • (Mac OS X and Windows) Highlight the actual file in Finder or Explorer
  • when using "Show file in browser".
  • (Windows) Run Clementine with normal user privileges after installation.
  • (Windows) Fix a "Error loading http://audio/mpegurl" error on first start.
  • (Mac OS X) Don't probe stupid printers when scanning for music devices.
  • (Mac OS X) Show a better error message when using an old version of OS X.
  • Build system changes:
  • Add continous builds for Fedora Core 18, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04.
  • (Linux) Use the system's version of libmygpo-qt if available.
  • (Mac OS X and Windows) Upgrade to Qt 4.8.3.
  • (Mac OS X) Sign release .dmgs.

New in Clementine 1.1 (Oct 26, 2012)

  • Major features:
  • Podcast support with integration with gpodder.net.
  • Add support for indexing and playing music from Google Drive.
  • Add Soundcloud support.
  • Add jazzradio.com support.
  • Moodbar support.
  • Other features:
  • Show nearby concerts for an artist using the Songkick API.
  • Support "My Music" in Grooveshark.
  • Support logical operators in the playlist filter.
  • Remove Spotify and Grooveshark search playlists in favour of the
  • internet tab.
  • Support liblastfm1.
  • Make the grouping of global search results configurable.
  • Support top lists in Spotify (eg. top 100).
  • Support drag and drop from the global search to the playlist.
  • Support undo for playlist sorting and shuffling.
  • Updated global search UI.
  • Verify and backup database on startup.
  • Support mono playback.
  • Add an option to prefer the AlbumArtist tag over the Artist tag when
  • scrobbling to Last.fm.
  • Add the ability to get a Grooveshark URL to share a songs and playlists.
  • Support loading spotify URLs from the command line.
  • Add "Very high" quality setting for visualisations.
  • Support setting the current album cover or a custom image as the
  • playlist background.
  • Add support for darklyrics as a lyrics source.
  • Add %filename% as a custom OSD variable.
  • Show .mka, .ape and .wv in file view.
  • Load cover art from mp4 files.
  • Copy text from all visible columns when copying a playlist row.
  • Add "Edit file information" and "Show in file browser" actions to the
  • file view.
  • Add Discogs as an album cover provider.
  • Nyanalyzer cat now goes to sleep between songs.
  • (Mac OS X) Support drag and dropping files and folders on the dock icon.
  • (Mac OS X) Support notification center instead of Growl on Mountain
  • Lion.
  • (Mac OS X) Support fullscreen mode in Mountain Lion.
  • (Mac OS X) Draw high resolution text when using a retina display.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Use new authentication API for di.fm/sky.fm to fix logging in to those
  • services.
  • Move tag reading to a separate process to isolate taglib crashes.
  • Fix hang on exit while library is being changed.
  • Fix parsing of cue sheets longer than 99 minutes.
  • Preserve the current song in the library view when filtering.
  • Previous button actually goes to the previous track when repeat track
  • mode is enabled.
  • Fix crashes when requesting MPRIS data during startup.
  • Enable horizontal scrolling in the Transcode dialog so the user can see
  • the whole path.
  • Stop showing the search box for Grooveshark and Spotify if the user is
  • not logged in.
  • Fix neverending task in Grooveshark if the user is logged out.
  • Fix 1px size change in the tool buttons in the main window.
  • Dragging songs to the bottom of the playlist now adds them to the
  • bottom.
  • Improve startup time by moving DeviceManager initialisation off the main
  • thread.
  • Fix crash when trying to seek with no song playing.
  • Scale the missing cover image in the edit tag dialog correctly.
  • Use the first visible column when dragging and dropping within the
  • playlist.
  • Fix a crash at startup when initialising the library before the grouping
  • settings have been loaded.
  • Handle various artists correctly in global search.
  • Add suggestions in global search.
  • Follow HTTP redirects correctly.
  • Find hidden album art.
  • Support genre and date in cue sheets.
  • Cache album art in the library model to prevent flicking when filtering.
  • Locale-aware sorting of Grooveshark songs.
  • Sort Grooveshark playlists by name.
  • Work around a bug in Qt so the number of mouse wheel scroll lines is
  • respected.
  • Fix transparency of visualisation overlay.
  • Fix transparency of pretty OSD.
  • Show thumbnails of album art in the tray icon tooltip instead of full
  • size images.
  • Allow upper case headers in PLS files.
  • Support libimobiledevice 1.1.2.
  • Fix crash when drag and dropping from a separate Clementine instance.
  • Sort SomaFM streams alphabetically.
  • Fix crash when OpenGL is unavailable.
  • Fix some resource leaks in the Grooveshark support.
  • Update the year when completing tags automatically.
  • Fix a crash when changing a song's rating.
  • Fix a crash when searching for album covers.
  • Load spotify URLs correctly from playlists.
  • (Linux) Fix a crash on exit when Gnome accessibility is enabled.
  • (Linux) Work around a hang on exit caused by certain NVidia drivers.
  • (Linux) Support devices with no partition table.
  • (Linux) Support "open with" in Ubuntu.
  • (Linux) Fix a crash in PlayTrack MPRIS method.
  • (Linux) Fix the types of some MPRIS fields.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix HTTPS streams.
  • (Mac OS X) Support keyboard shortcuts in native Mac search fields.
  • (Mac OS X) Use Qocoa instead of custom hacks for native search widgets.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix crash on exit.
  • (Mac OS X) Avoid churn from frequent FSEvent stream updates.
  • (Mac OS X) Hide empty help menu on Mac.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix leaks in device handling code.
  • (Windows) Remove the drop shadow in the OSD.
  • (Windows) Do not show the OSD in the taskbar.
  • (Windows) Fix a crash when clicking on the empty button in the thumbbar.
  • Build system changes:
  • Add continous builds for Fedora Core 17 and Ubuntu 12.04.
  • Show which dependencies are missing when trying to enable optional features.
  • (Mac OS X and Windows) Upgrade to Qt 4.8.2.

New in Clementine 1.1.0 RC 1 (Sep 26, 2012)

  • Major features:
  • Podcast support with integration with gpodder.net.
  • Add support for indexing and playing music from Google Drive.
  • Add Soundcloud support.
  • Add jazzradio.com support.
  • Moodbar support.
  • Other features:
  • Show nearby concerts for an artist using the Songkick API.
  • Support "My Music" in Grooveshark.
  • Support logical operators in the playlist filter.
  • Remove Spotify and Grooveshark search playlists in favour of the
  • internet tab.
  • Support liblastfm1.
  • Make the grouping of global search results configurable.
  • Support top lists in Spotify (eg. top 100).
  • Support drag and drop from the global search to the playlist.
  • Support undo for playlist sorting and shuffling.
  • Updated global search UI.
  • Verify and backup database on startup.
  • Support mono playback.
  • Add an option to prefer the AlbumArtist tag over the Artist tag when
  • scrobbling to Last.fm.
  • Add the ability to get a Grooveshark URL to share a songs and playlists.
  • Support loading spotify URLs from the command line.
  • Add "Very high" quality setting for visualisations.
  • Support setting the current album cover or a custom image as the
  • playlist background.
  • Add support for darklyrics as a lyrics source.
  • Add %filename% as a custom OSD variable.
  • Show .mka, .ape and .wv in file view.
  • Load cover art from mp4 files.
  • Copy text from all visible columns when copying a playlist row.
  • Add "Edit file information" and "Show in file browser" actions to the
  • file view.
  • Add Discogs as an album cover provider.
  • (Mac OS X) Support drag and dropping files and folders on the dock icon.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Use new authentication API for di.fm/sky.fm to fix logging in to those
  • services.
  • Move tag reading to a separate process to isolate taglib crashes.
  • Fix hang on exit while library is being changed.
  • Fix parsing of cue sheets longer than 99 minutes.
  • Preserve the current song in the library view when filtering.
  • Previous button actually goes to the previous track when repeat track
  • mode is enabled.
  • Fix crashes when requesting MPRIS data during startup.
  • Enable horizontal scrolling in the Transcode dialog so the user can see
  • the whole path.
  • Stop showing the search box for Grooveshark and Spotify if the user is
  • not logged in.
  • Fix neverending task in Grooveshark if the user is logged out.
  • Fix 1px size change in the tool buttons in the main window.
  • Dragging songs to the bottom of the playlist now adds them to the
  • bottom.
  • Improve startup time by moving DeviceManager initialisation off the main
  • thread.
  • Fix crash when trying to seek with no song playing.
  • Scale the missing cover image in the edit tag dialog correctly.
  • Use the first visible column when dragging and dropping within the
  • playlist.
  • Fix a crash at startup when initialising the library before the grouping
  • settings have been loaded.
  • Handle various artists correctly in global search.
  • Add suggestions in global search.
  • Follow HTTP redirects correctly.
  • Find hidden album art.
  • Support genre and date in cue sheets.
  • Cache album art in the library model to prevent flicking when filtering.
  • Locale-aware sorting of Grooveshark songs.
  • Sort Grooveshark playlists by name.
  • Work around a bug in Qt so the number of mouse wheel scroll lines is
  • respected.
  • Fix transparency of visualisation overlay.
  • Fix transparency of pretty OSD.
  • Show thumbnails of album art in the tray icon tooltip instead of full
  • size images.
  • Allow upper case headers in PLS files.
  • Support libimobiledevice 1.1.2.
  • Fix crash when drag and dropping from a separate Clementine instance.
  • Sort SomaFM streams alphabetically.
  • Fix crash when OpenGL is unavailable.
  • Fix some resource leaks in the Grooveshark support.
  • Update the year when completing tags automatically.
  • Fix a crash when changing a song's rating.
  • Fix a crash when searching for album covers.
  • Load spotify URLs correctly from playlists.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix HTTPS streams.
  • (Mac OS X) Support keyboard shortcuts in native Mac search fields.
  • (Mac OS X) Use Qocoa instead of custom hacks for native search widgets.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix crash on exit.
  • (Mac OS X) Avoid churn from frequent FSEvent stream updates.
  • (Mac OS X) Hide empty help menu on Mac.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix leaks in device handling code.
  • Build system changes:
  • Add continous builds for Fedora Core 17 and Ubuntu 12.04.
  • Show which dependencies are missing when trying to enable optional
  • features.
  • (Mac OS X and Windows) Upgrade to Qt 4.8.2.

New in Clementine 1.0.1 (Jan 23, 2012)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Use Chromaprinter and Acoustid instead of Echoprint and MusicDNS.
  • Make it possible to play songs from connected iPod Touches again.
  • (Mac OS X) Use FSEvent-based filesystem watcher to fix a number of crashes due to running out of file handles when monitoring a large library.

New in Clementine 1.0 (Jan 23, 2012)

  • Major features:
  • Add Spotify support.
  • Add Grooveshark support.
  • Add Digitally Imported (di.fm) and Sky.fm radio stations.
  • Add a global search feature:
  • A single place to search for music and radio.
  • Includes your library, radio streams, Spotify and Grooveshark.
  • Add audio CD support.
  • Add Amazon as an alternate provider for album cover art.
  • Add Nyanalyzer Cat.
  • Other features:
  • Add transcoder options.
  • Display album art from FLAC tags if using a version of taglib that supports it.
  • Rename the existing "Shuffle by album" mode to "Shuffle tracks in this album", and add a new "Shuffle albums" mode that plays all the tracks in each album sequentially, but then jumps to a different random album afterwards.
  • Improve the organisation of the settings dialog.
  • Add scroll bars to the settings dialog if it's too big to fit on the screen.
  • Improve the settings dialog pages for online services like Last.fm to make it easier to log in and log out.
  • Add a warning about not being able to play Last.fm radio if not a subscriber.
  • Group album cover search results by category.
  • Allow the artist and album to be specified separately when searching for album covers.
  • Made album cover art searches more clever - they will select the "best" image automatically rather than just choosing the first one.
  • Show some statistics after searching for album cover art.
  • Show the album cover dimensions on each image when searching for art.
  • Support dragging and dropping images onto the cover in the edit tag dialog.
  • Double clicking a playlist tab now lets you rename it.
  • Add keyboard shortcuts to navigate between playlist tabs.
  • When songs are added to the end of the playlist, scroll the playlist to ensure the top one is visible.
  • Make dynamic playlists use the limit specified in the smart playlists dialog.
  • Add an "Expand" button to add more tracks to a dynamic playlist.
  • Make it possible to use relative dates in smart playlist criteria.
  • Add an option to remove the playlist background image.
  • Add options to customise OSD messages that are shown on song changes.
  • Add a button in the status bar to toggle Last.fm scrobbling.
  • Show a song's URL in the title playlist column if it doesn't have a title.
  • Add a new logging system.
  • Add file type filtering to the Files view.
  • Add a --version command line option.
  • Add a --toggle-pretty-osd command line option.
  • Add support for custom lastfm:// URLs.
  • Make the version number in the About dialog selectable.
  • Elide the hint text in search boxes when it's too long.
  • Show the artist and album name in the title of the "Show fullsize" window.
  • Remember which tab was selected last time in the edit tag dialog.
  • Cache lists of streams/friends fetched from Last.fm, di.fm, soma.fm, etc.
  • Improve handling of album artist tags.
  • (Mac OS X) Make the album cover search dialog modal so it acts like a sheet.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Put a limit on the size of the playlist's undo stack and don't record operations that affect more than 500 rows. Reduces memory usage when adding or removing lots of items to the playlist.
  • Buffer audio from all sources, not just http. Fixes audio stuttering when playing from mounted network locations.
  • When adding files to the playlist that aren't in the library, quickly add playlist entries first and then load more metadata in the background.
  • Scrobble radio streams even when the length is unknown.
  • Re-enable the Last.fm Love button after going to another song in a stream.
  • Scrobble tracks properly if they're loved before the half-way point.
  • Fix a bug that would sometimes cause the wrong songs to be scrobbled.
  • Fix a bug where a song's play count would be updated continuously if scrobbling was disabled.
  • After deleting an item from a playlist move the selection to the next item instead of the previous one.
  • Translate dynamic playlist names properly at runtime.
  • Fix a crash on startup if the album cover loader took too long to start.
  • Show tooltips in the sidebar only in Tabs and Icons Only modes.
  • Fix the byte order of album cover art images sent over dbus on big endian machines.
  • When songs disappear from the filesystem, mark them as unavailable instead of completely removing them from the database.
  • Read album artist tags from ogg/flac/mp4 files properly.
  • Make the --pause command line option always pause, instead of behaving the same as --play-pause.
  • Fix a crash when clicking on the "Smart playlists" folder when the library grouping is set to None/None/None.
  • Keep the state of the rain and hypnotoad menu items in sync.
  • Fix a bug where playlist columns would slowly change size the more times you opened and closed Clementine.
  • Save the state of the playlist columns' sort order.
  • Assume Icecast-style stream metadata is in the "Artist - Title" format, as this seems more common than "Title - Artist".
  • Preserve high quality (>16-bit) audio streams.
  • Stop the M3U parser from going into an infinite loop when parsing a file with an invalid #EXTINF line.
  • When renumbering tracks, number the first track 1 instead of -1.
  • Fix a bug where notifications would be shown for the wrong song after editing file tags.
  • When organising files, make %albumartist behave like %artist if the song has no albumartist tag set.
  • Use locale-aware sorting for artists and albums in the album cover manager.
  • When stopping due to "Stop after this track", set the current song to the one after, so when the user presses Play it plays the next song instead of the last one again.
  • Fix a bug that stopped Magnatune album downloads from working.
  • Improve detection of playlist types when loading a playlist smaller than 512 bytes.
  • Fix Last.fm authentication on Qt 4.8.
  • Save the playlist column alignment setting properly.
  • Indicate which playlist column alignment is currently in use in the menu.
  • Speed up adding entire folders to the playlist from disk.
  • Load cover art for the library in a background thread. This makes opening nodes with a large number of albums much faster.
  • Make manual track changes ignore the "Repeat track" setting
  • Use MP3 URLs for Jamendo instead of Ogg since they keep breaking the Ogg ones.
  • Fix a crash when asked over DBus or the commandline to play a track in the playlist that doesn't exist.
  • Fix a bug where moving songs down in the playlist could not be undone properly.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix free space and capacity information for MTP devices.
  • (Mac OS X) Disable the popup delay settings when using Growl.
  • (Mac OS X) Blacklist certain USB devices from MTP probing.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix global shortcuts in Lion.
  • (Mac OS X) Fix native search widgets in Qt 4.8.
  • Build system changes:
  • Clementine has now moved from svn to git. Details are on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/source/checkout
  • Clementine's translations have moved from Launchpad to Transifex: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/clementine/
  • (Mac OS X) Compile dependencies in a more controlled way.
  • (Mac OS X) Create a prettier DMG package.

New in Clementine 0.7.1 (Apr 1, 2011)

  • Fix several compilation errors under GCC 4.6.0.
  • Fix a regression that broke gapless playback between certain songs.
  • Fix the behaviour of --seek-by and --seek-to commandline options.
  • Fix a crash when the visualisation window was resized to 0x0 pixels.
  • Fix a crash on startup on machines without X11 installed.
  • Fix a bug that would make Clementine try to update to an earlier version.

New in Clementine 0.6.0 (Dec 13, 2010)

  • Features:
  • Added a Song Info tab that contains:
  • Lyrics fetched from 17 different websites
  • Statistics, play counts and tags from Last.fm
  • Wiki from Last.fm
  • Added an Artist Info tab that contains:
  • Photos
  • Biographies from Wikipedia, Last.fm, Amazon and more
  • Similar artists
  • Added smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
  • Add ratings, play counts and skip counts to the library, and remember
  • when a song was last played.
  • Add a directory of Icecast radio stations to the Internet tab.
  • Add Jamendo support to the Internet tab.
  • Redesigned the sidebar so it looks better with the new "Song info" and
  • "Artist info" tabs. The old style can be used again by right clicking
  • on the sidebar.
  • Add support for "custom" Last.fm radio stations see:
  • http://burnysblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/combo-station-urls.html
  • Inhibit the Gnome, KDE and OS X screensavers when watching visualisations.
  • Add an option to configure the gstreamer buffer size.
  • Add a Mute option to the menus and the panel icon.
  • Add a tooltip to the panel icon showing the currently playing track.
  • Change the window title to the name of the currently playing track.
  • Add a comment column to the playlist.
  • Add volume controls for Rain and Hypnotoad.
  • Allow editing tags from the library pane.
  • Add a "Delete from disk" item in the playlist menu.
  • Single clicking an item in the library view now expands it.
  • Kittens!
  • (Linux) Add MPRIS2 support, see http://www.mpris.org/2.0/spec/
  • (Ubuntu) Add monochrome panel icons.
  • (Ubuntu) Show Clementine in the Gnome sound menu.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Replace Last.fm loved tracks with mix radio, see:
  • http://www.last.fm/stationchanges2010
  • Don't block the GUI when starting a background stream.
  • Don't block the GUI when searching or sorting a large library.
  • Fix a large number of bugs in the MPRIS API.
  • Use CBR instead of VBR when encoding MP3 files to copy to devices.
  • Fixed parsing of DOS line endings in M3U files.
  • Fix inline editing of multiple tracks in the playlist.
  • Fix a bug where pressing F2 would sometimes edit the wrong field.
  • Ignore duplicate items from playlists when opening directories.
  • Ignore bad metadata in a file if good metadata has already been loaded.
  • Don't show CD drives in the devices tab.
  • Don't stop the track prematurely if it's the last one in the playlist
  • and fadeout is disabled.
  • Write URLs in XSPF playlists properly when saving to a folder inside
  • the library.
  • Fix some usability issues with the "Show in various artists" feature.
  • Prevent the last playlist column from being hidden.
  • Don't download the entire Magnatune catalogue each time Clementine is run.
  • (Mac OS X) Store user files in Library/Application Support/

New in Clementine 0.5.3 (Sep 30, 2010)

  • Fix a crash that would occur when the library scanner encountered a
  • song with invalid metadata.
  • Show the patch version in the version string.
  • Work around a broken version of liblastfm.
  • (Linux) Add some missing metadata to the MPRIS interface.
  • (Mac) Fix mass-storage devices.

New in Clementine 0.4.2 (Jul 3, 2010)

  • Fix global shortcuts issue.

New in Clementine 0.3 (May 10, 2010)

  • Features:
  • It is now possible to group the library by any field.
  • Clementine now uses GStreamer to play music.
  • There is now an equalizer in the Tools menu.
  • Crossfading between tracks, and gapless playback.
  • Add an OSD for operating systems that don't have native notifications.
  • MPRIS support - you can now control Clementine using compatible remote
  • control applications.
  • You can now control Clementine using the command line.
  • Better tag editing. You can now automatically renumber tracks, bulk-edit
  • fields, and edit tags directly from the playlist.
  • Autocompletion of album and artist names when editing tags.
  • Undo and redo in the playlist.
  • Add a menu option to delete items from the playlist.
  • Add options to hide/show the main window on startup.
  • Add options to sign out of Last.fm, and hide the Last.fm buttons.
  • Automatically scroll to the currently playing song.
  • Automatically start playing again from the previously playing track.
  • Show a tiny "play" or "pause" icon in the system tray.
  • Show a nicer indicator in the playlist when drag+dropping songs.
  • (Windows and Mac) Global shortcut support.
  • (Windows) The analyzer now works.
  • (Mac) Remove the system tray icon, and minimize to the dock properly.
  • (Mac) Use Sparkle for updates.
  • Bugfixes:
  • The library scanner should now be much more efficient, and won't scan
  • your entire collection on startup.
  • Saving and loading huge playlists should now be much faster.
  • Fix several issues with runtime linking of sqlite.
  • It is now possible to play songs that have '#' in the name.
  • The currently playing track animation is now a more readable colour.
  • Fix a crash when right-clicking an empty area of the playlist.
  • Fix a crash when starting Clementine from a directory that contained
  • another directory called "clementine".
  • Fix a crash when deleting songs from the library while the library
  • scanner is running.
  • Fix an occasional crash when playing music.
  • Left clicking on the track slider will now jump to that position.
  • Stop the user from rearranging album covers in the cover manager.
  • (Linux) Stop Clementine from creating loads of notifications at once.
  • (Linux) Clementine will no longer prevent KDE from logging out.
  • Internationalization:
  • Added translations for Portuguese, Czech, Danish, British English,
  • Finnish, French, Galician, German, Italian, Kazakh, Bokmal, Polish,
  • Romanian, Swedish and Turkish.
  • Buildsystem changes:
  • (Linux) Use the notification daemon directly, instead of through
  • libnotify.
  • It is now possible to select other audio backends (xine, vlc, phonon)
  • through a cmake option, although doing so is not recommended, and may
  • cause a terrible plague to wreak havok and despair upon your friends and
  • loved ones. You have been warned.

New in Clementine 0.2 (Apr 12, 2010)

  • Features:
  • Album cover art is now automatically loaded from disk for your library
  • Cover manager downloads missing covers from Last.fm
  • Covers for Last.fm radio tracks are shown in notifications
  • Much better "Various Artists" detection
  • Menu items to force albums to be shown under "Various Artists"
  • Support for M3U and XSPF playlists
  • Menu items to add files and streams by URL
  • Shuffle and Repeat modes for the playlist
  • Option to hide the system tray icon
  • Option to show notifications when changing volume (disabled by default)
  • Playlist columns for albumartist, composer, file type, date
  • Menu item to automatically number tracks in the playlist
  • More 2D analyzers from Amarok 1.4
  • (Linux) Media keys (play, stop, etc.) should work under Gnome
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed Last.fm scrobbling for local music
  • Fixed problems writing UTF-8 tags
  • Searching the library now supports unicode
  • Fixed a serious memory leak when the window is minimized to the tray
  • Fixed tracks without an album field not showing up in the library
  • Clicking the track slider to move it now works properly
  • The track slider should no longer move around underneath you while being
  • dragged
  • Colours should now obey the system colour scheme
  • Searching the library should now be much faster
  • (Windows) Fixed logarithmic volume issues
  • (Linux and Mac) Volume is now saved and restored properly when you exit
  • (Linux and Mac) Library scanner now runs at a low IO priority to make it
  • much less intrusive
  • (Mac) Fix crash when universal access options are enabled
  • Internationalization:
  • Added translations for Spanish, Russian, Greek and Slovak
  • Buildsystem changes:
  • Moved from qmake to cmake
  • It's now possible to build without libnotify
  • Unit tests using gtest