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Clementine is a music player app that is mainly developed for Linux. Since it’s a KDE app, and I have used the Gnome desktop environment pretty exclusively of the last few years, I hadn’t really run across it before.

Unbeknownst to me until relatively recently, they’ve also got a Windows version:

I’ve been using Clementine on my work laptop for a few days now, and so far, it almost exactly fits a need I’ve had a for a long time: a simple, low-overhead music player that runs on Windows, has a clean interface, and still supports a media library. These sorts of apps seem to be a dime a dozen on the Linux side of the fence. For Windows, not so much, and the few that *are* out there tend to be fairly ancient and crusty.

I say “almost” because Clementine does have one glaring ommission—any sort of support of mobile devices. There is no synching and no playing of tracks from a smartphone or iPod connected via USB. At home, that’s not a big deal, as all my music is stored on a NAS and accessible via Samba. Sadly, when I’m at the office and behind the corporate firewall, it means I’m still stuck with MediaMonkey to play the iPod through my laptop.

Maybe Banshee will get their Windows version working someday…