Install Clementine Music Player on Ubuntu

Install Clementine Music Player on Ubuntu

Clementine is a free music player application, open source and cross platform, which is available for various operating systems including Windows, OS X and GNU/Linux.

In its development, Clementine prioritizes the speed of the application as well as a beautiful display user friendly thus making it easy for users to use Clementine especially in playing and searching for music.

Among the many music players available for use on the GNU/Linux operating system, Clementine is one of the most popular and favored by users of the GNU/Linux operating system.

Although prioritizing ease of use (easy to use) by using a simple interface that is easy to use, but Clementine also looks quite beautiful.

In addition, Clementine has many features that are needed and make users like using Clementine. Here are some of the features that Clementine has:

1. Can listen to music from internet sources such as radio, music services stream SoundCloud, Grooveshark and so on.
2. Automatically create smart playlists or playlists based on the songs you listen to frequently, based on recently added songs, based on last played songs and so on. You can also create your own playlist from the songs you choose.
3. Playing music from CD/DVD
4. Displays a visualization of sound effects.
5. Under certain conditions, Clementine can also display the lyrics, photos and a singer’s biography of the song.
6. Converts music formats to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC formats.
7. You can also remotely the Clementine app from Android by using Clementine Remote.
8. As well as many other features.

The latest version of Clementine is Clementine version 1.3.1 which was released on April 19, 2022. Clementine version 1.3.1 is the release minor which is an improvement over Clementine version 1.3.0.

How to Install Clementine on Ubuntu 16.04

There are two ways that can be done to install Clementine on the Ubuntu 16.04 distro and its derivatives such as Linux Mint and others. That is by using the file package deb format and by using PPA repositories.

Install Clementine Using the Package Deb File

To install Clementine 1.3.1 using the Deb File. Open Terminal by pressing the keyboard combination / shortcuts CTRL + ALT + T or open Terminal via the application menu.

Once Terminal is open, copy and paste the following command to download the file deb packages Clementine (press the keyboard combination / shortcuts CTRL + SHIFT + V to paste in Terminal).

For Ubuntu 32 bit architecture:

wget https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/releases/download/1.3.1/clementine_1.3.1-xenial_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 64 bit architecture:

wget https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/releases/download/1.3.1/clementine_1.3.1-xenial_amd64.deb

Wait for the process download until finished. If the download process is complete, install Clementine on your Ubuntu using the following command:

For Ubuntu 32 bit architecture:

sudo dpkg -i clementine_1.3.1-xenial_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 64 bit architecture:

sudo dpkg -i clementine_1.3.1-xenial_amd64.deb

If during the installation process there is error which is due to not having some required packages or dependencies installed on your computer, enter the following command to install the required packages or dependencies:

sudo apt-get install -f

Wait and make sure the dependency installation process is complete and successful. After successfully installing the packages or dependencies. Reinstall Clementine with the installation command you previously used.

Install Clementine Using PPA repository:

To install the latest Clementine on Ubuntu 16.04 using the PPA official repository Clementine. Open Terminal by pressing the keyboard combination / shortcuts CTRL + ALT + T or by opening Terminal via the application menu.

Then copy and paste the following command in Terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine

After successfully adding PPA repository Clementine. Do uupdate repository to update the application lists using the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Wait for the process updates until finished. After updates finished, Install it using the following command:

sudo apt-get install clementine

Wait for the installation process to complete and make sure there are no notifications error during the installation process.

After the installation process is complete, you can open Clementine in the application menu and play songs using Clementine.