Clementine is a half port half rewrite of Amarok 1.4, with its kdelibs dependencies stripped and all the code updated to use Qt4. Only in its 0.1 version, it works incredibly well. I’ve been looking for something like this since Juk became crusty and Amarok became too much and Exaile seemed slow and gtkish. Clementine is my new default player.
An ebuild is already available for Gentoo.
Did in Gentoo, Clementine have dependency on gtk and python?
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?p=149793#p149793
libnotify depends on gtk, I think, but I don’t think libnotify is a mandatory dependency of clementine. not sure though.
Thanks for the tip, will try it.
This is wonderful news. I’ve got Clementine up & running, and it works great! It’s not quite up to par with VA compilations, though. And I miss the option to sort by album. But I guess those are wrinkles that will be straightened out soon.
archlinux users, can use:
clementine-svn
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34981
I have create a deb for svn version in my ppa for ubuntu karmic
https://launchpad.net/~nuovodna/+archive/nuovodna-stuff
Me switched too – goodbye boombox, we’ll meet again. miss your library browser!
Clementine just works as expected, well done! I’ll try mainline Amarok again with the major releases…
Remember: Forks are a good thing!
I thought that I’d mention here that there’s a bug related to last.fm scrobbling in the 0.1 version used in the Gentoo ebuild. The issue was fixed in revision #218 according to davidsansome.
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