Clementine Music Player 1.0 (Stable), Finally Released

A while back, Clementine music player got Grooveshark and Spotify support and these, among many other new features are finally available in a stable release (1.0). You'll need a Spotify Premium / Grooveshark Anywhere account though.

Besides Spotify and GrooveShark support, the latest Clementine 1.0 also comes with a new global search feature which you can use to search for music and radio (includes your music library, radio streams, Spotify and Grooveshark), Digitally Imported (di.fm) and Sky.fm radio stations, audio CD support and Amazon as an alternate provider for album cover art.

Other changes in Clementine 1.0:

• transcoder options
• improve the organisation of the settings dialog
• album cover art searches now select the best cover automatically instead of the first one
• keyboard shortcuts to navigate between playlist tabs
• options to customise OSD messages that are shown on song changes
• cache lists of streams/friends fetched from Last.fm, di.fm, soma.fm, etc.

Oh, and you can finally remove the playlist background image (under Tools > Preferences > Behavior).

Install Clementine

To install Clementine 1.0 in Ubuntu Lucid, Maverick, Natty or Oneiric using the stable Clementine PPA, copy/paste the commands below in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install clementine

You can also manually download .deb files via the Clementine download page, but you won't get automatic updates if you don't use the PPA. Here, you'll also find .rpm, .dmg, .exe and source files.

Also see:

• How To Install The Native Spotify Linux Client In Ubuntu (With Fixes)
• Nuvola Player 1.0 (Stable) Released

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Clementine Music Player Gets Spotify And Grooveshark Support

The latest Clementine music player available in the Clementine Development PPA got some very interesting new features: you can now listen to Grooveshark or Spotify songs through Clementine. For this, you need a Spotify Premium / Grooveshark Anywhere account though.

I've only tested the Grooveshark plugin (because I don't have a Spotify Premium account) and I can tell you it works pretty well already. Also, most of the Grooveshark features can be accessed from Clementine: you can add a song to your favourites, create new playlists, add songs to a Grooveshark playlist or get a song share url. What's not yet available is listening to a Grooveshark radio station.

Other changes include: reorganization of the Preferences dialog, you can configure the quality when converting music before copying it to a device, A new "Search for anything" box above the sidebar, Unity quicklists and more.

Update: the latest Clementine also comes with an option to disable the playlist background image (under Preferences > Behavior > Enable playlist background image).

If you want to test the latest Clementine development build in Ubuntu, use the commands below (warning: the packages may be unstable!):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine-dev 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install clementine

Thanks to Olof Nord for the tip!

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