Alternatives to Clementine
Cross-platform music player forked from Amarok with cloud and streaming support. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Clementine
Cross-platform music player forked from Amarok with cloud and streaming support.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Clementine.
Quod Libet
Organize and play music with flexible metadata tools.
Quod Libet is also free, open source and cross-platform, trading cloud and streaming support for flexible metadata searches and plugins built around a local audio library.
fooyin
Build a personalized music player around your local library.
fooyin is free and open source under GPL-3.0 with flexible layouts and a plugin system, but drops macOS and focuses on a local library.
MediaMonkey
Organize, tag and play large music collections.
MediaMonkey is freemium and closed source on Windows and Android, adding library tagging and device syncing, with some features needing a paid Gold license.
JRiver Media Center
Organize and play a local media collection with a configurable media-center application.
JRiver Media Center is paid and closed source on Windows, macOS and Linux, combining library organization with playback for home-media workflows.
Audirvāna
Play a local music library and supported streaming services from a desktop application.
Audirvāna is paid and closed source on Windows and macOS only, combining a local music library with supported streaming services and audio-output configuration.
Amarok
A KDE music player and collection manager for organising and playing a local music library.
Amarok is the KDE player Clementine was forked from, licensed GPL-2.0 with regular 3.x bugfix releases, but it targets Linux and local libraries rather than streaming services.
Rhythmbox
A music player and library manager for the GNOME desktop with podcast and internet radio support.
Rhythmbox is a GPL music library player for GNOME with podcasts and internet radio, but has no official Windows or macOS build.
Exaile
A GTK music player and library manager with smart playlists, tagging, radio streaming and podcasts.
Exaile is an open-source GTK library player for Windows and Linux with smart playlists, advanced tag editing, podcasts, radio and more than 50 plugins, with regular releases.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Clementine as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Audacious
A lightweight open-source audio player descended from XMMS, with optional Winamp Classic skins.
Clementine is an open-source music player for Windows, macOS and Linux with library, cloud and streaming support, though its development has slowed and its interface looks dated.
Dopamine
A simple desktop audio player for playing and browsing a local music collection.
Clementine is an open source cross-platform player forked from Amarok with cloud and streaming support, though its development has slowed and its interface looks dated.
Harmonoid
A cross-platform music player and library manager built on mpv and FFmpeg, with a Material Design interface.
Clementine is open source and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux with cloud and streaming support, but it has no mobile apps and its development has slowed.
JuK
A KDE jukebox-style music player focused on managing a collection, playlists and tags.
Clementine is an open source Amarok fork that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux with cloud and streaming support, though development has slowed.
Sayonara Player
A fast Qt audio player and music library manager for Linux and BSD.
Clementine is an open source Amarok fork for Windows, macOS and Linux with cloud and streaming support, though its development has slowed and its interface looks dated.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Plexamp
A music player from Plex for listening to and exploring the music library on a Plex server.
Feishin
Listen to music from a compatible server through a desktop client.
Spotube
Music streaming player that pulls metadata and playlists through community plugins.
YouTube Music
Desktop wrapper for YouTube Music with a plugin system for extra features.
VLC media player
A free player that opens almost any video or audio file, disc or stream without installing a codec pack.
Tauon
An open-source desktop music player for local collections, with Jellyfin and Airsonic streaming support.
