Clementine Music Player Reaches 1.0; Adds DI.fm & Spotify Support

Clementine is the best audio player on the planet (according to me), but since I don’t think I’ve ever talked about it on the site before, I can’t think of a better time to do so than right now as version 1.0 just got released. Based on Amarok 1.4, Clementine was born after Amarok 2.0 came out and turned many people away. It retains everything that made Amarok 1.4 so great, but still gets updated to support the latest technologies and other cool features.

As the player’s last update occurred earlier this year, I had wondered if the project simply died off. Not so, as with its 1.0 release, we can see that the developers have been hard at work to help introduce some much-requested features, including one I was stoked to see listed: DI.fm support.

In addition, support for Spotify, Grooveshark and Sky.fm has been added, along with full support for premium accounts if it exists for said service. I’ve been wanting to subscribe to DI.fm for some time, but since no player I’d stand to use ever supported it, I’ve held off. Well, with this release I have finally subscribed, and I can say that so far, it works beautifully with Clementine.

Other enhancements include CD audio support, using Amazon as an alternate album art source, a global search feature that can search through local collections and the Internet, an improved transcoder and much more. Oh, I can’t forget to mention the… Nyanalyzer. Yes, it’s just what you think it is:

Clementine is available for all operating systems, with any Linux distro likely to have it in their repositories.