Impressions of the new version of Clementine Music Player

In August I talked about an interesting cross-platform player with delicious, fruity named Clementine. Since then, it took such a little time, but the player could be updated in mid-September, and received some very interesting additions. I'm planning to write, but different worldly vanity and overreliance on applications for iOS as mnya circled that I forgot to share with you. But the world is not without good people, and I recalled correctly pointing nose.

So, in the middle of September Clementine Project developers have added to their player the opportunity to work with external devices and a bit revised interface. Now, in the menu on the left side there is another tab - Carriers.

What lies behind these media? This of course all sorts of USB-drives, and the main players, including iPod & iPhone. When connecting external devices, they are determined by Clementine as available, and offers to scan it. After that, we can easily listen to the tracks are in the player. Just announced the ability to add, remove, and more importantly, to copy tracks from iPhone / iPod to "Big Brother", but so far this feature is bad and is only supported when working with the iPhone 3G / 3Gs, player iPod Touch, and only if the set iTunes. Developers immediately stipulate that moment FAQ «supported if you have iTunes installed». So count on a dual boot is not necessary, but we are always mindful about

Pod to Mac, is not it?

Do we need such an opportunity to listen to the player on his poppy library from iTunes / iPod, it's everyone decides itself, but always nice to have an extra tool.

By the way, it's worth noting that Clementine is committed not care which one you connect the iPhone: your or a friend who came to visit for an hour. You will not be offered immediately to rub his or its collection, but simply add a device to the list.

By the way, if you look at the properties of the connected vehicle, you will popularly tell which files this device can support, as well as configure the auto-conversion in one of the supported file types, adding new tracks. Conveniently.

By passing the "apple" player, Clementine works the same way with the phones on Android, Zen players and ordinary flash drives. USB-drives, for some reason, in the same way does not "cling", the possibility of passing the usual categories the HDD, then there will be a tab or File collections.

Once added device remains in the list of "forever", and when you turn off your player (or stick) from the "big brother", it still hangs on the list, but only as something "in vindovyh" marked in red cross. And what's more, those tracks from an external device, you have added to a playlist, stay in place, but it does not play, and will generate an error. Very unpleasant feature.

Well, a little about the changes. In addition to the connection of external devices, just add the control to the remote Wii Remotes. I do not know to what extent this is true, and for a number of users, but let it be. There is still something a trifle for playback and management tags: Dialogue to organize files, automatically stretching the width of columns in the playlist, Playback queue manager, uploading artwork embedded in id3v2 tags, more options for scanning the library, drag and drop the songs between playlists.

Well, if you absolutely bored listening to music, you can use a new sound effect Gipnozhaba. This miracle added to expand the menu, which previously had a pleasant effect of rain, which I often used in the writing of articles or simply as background. New Gipnozhaba same effect is quite brutal, I would even say a futuristic sound that is difficult to convey. I will say one thing, I is not exactly peaceful, hardly enters into a trance. Sound effects can be turned on separately, with each other or with the music.

But what has not appeared, is the new formats and the ability to read from an image (CDImage). The developers still tend not to move or deviate from iTunes standards. On this lossless fans still remain at all the same, the choice of the old (Cog, Play, Vox), and tangerine on the same player, we will listen to lossy-formats and on-track FLAC.

Price: is free
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