Clementine Remote Mac

When it comes to a Mac music player, users are often confused. That's because, for some reason, most players look like iTunes but with a broader functionality and the absence of iTunes store. We need an iTunes alternative because we want to listen to audio formats not supported by it.

There are many alternatives to Clementine for Mac and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The most popular Mac alternative is foobar2000, which is free.If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Clementine and loads of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Enjoy gapless playback with the double buffering mechanism of the player and can be operated easily with Apple IR Remote. The player completely plays from the memory of Mac and automatically updates itself by downloading them as soon as they come. There is no equalizer and special effects on the player; it just offers a great music experience.

Today, I'm comparing to prominent audio players for Mac – VOX Music Player and Clementine according to their functionality, compatibility, format support, interface and additional features.

Functionality. VOX vs. Clementine

Clementine

Clementine is an audio player and library organizer, with the interface similar to iTunes’s and many features for the playback control. Overall use is simple – to add files you just drop your files to the player. What I liked most is that you can listen to music you have in Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive. You can edit meta tags right (only on MP3 and OGG files) in the app and Clementine automatically finds lyrics and album covers if they are missing.

VOX Music Player

VOX is more about the playback. The app puts an accent on simplicity so that users don't get confused with how to use the app. VOX includes only five tabs: Playlist, Library, Queue, Radio, and SoundCloud. Users can log into Spotify, and SoundCloud to listen to their music library using one app. Last.fm scrobbling available to keep the listening stats and get recommendations based on played tracks on VOX. The Radio includes 30,000 stations from 140 countries.

Compatibility. VOX vs. Clementine

Clementine

Clementine works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. You can control the playback using an Android device or a Wii remote.
VOX Music Player
VOX Music Player has a macOS and iOS version. The functionality of desktop and mobile is pretty much the same. According to VOX developers, Windows and Android version are due in 2018.

Format Support. VOX vs. Clementine

Clementine & VOX Music Player

Both players support uncompressed, lossless, and lossy audio formats. They include AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, MP3, OGG, APE, playlist formats and more.

Interface – judge for yourself

Clementine


VOX Music Player


Additional Features

Clementine

Apart from the remote control, meta tags editing and lyrics search, Clementine has:
  • Internet radio.
  • Smart Playlists.
  • Gar/Overlap.
  • Equalizer.
  • Internet services integration.

VOX Music Player

I've already mentioned Spotify, Last.fm, and SoundCloud integration. As for audio settings, VOX offers:

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  • Equalizer.
  • BS2B (Crossfeed).
  • Track Buffer.
  • Gap/Overlap.
  • Sync Sample Rate.
  • Hog Mode.
  • Extra Volume.

Apart from that, there's an online storage for your music. It's called VOX Music Cloud.

The cloud serves as the main place to keep your music and stream from it to your devices. VOX Music Cloud is an unlimited online storage. You can upload there as much music as you want. It also has no restrictions on audio formats or file's size. If your upload thousands of FLACs, it's fine. You can listen to them on your iPhone and Mac. VOX Music Cloud is available only to VOX Premium subscribers.

Now that we've learned about these players, you can try any of them and see how it goes. I prefer VOX Music Player because it's easier to navigate and use in general. I really like VOX interface as well. Clementine would suit you if you have a vast music library and you want to integrate with various Internet services. But I'm not one of them.

Clementine is a free lightweight, and fast music player program which is available for Windows, Linux, Mac, and the Raspberry Pi. It has a easy to use user interface which makes playing your music files and searching your music library very easy to do on Clementine. Clementine also has a lot of nice features like a playlist editor, copy music to your iPod, iPhone, or MP3 player, visualizations, and online streaming music playback from online services like SoundCloud. It can also play a lot of different music file formats like MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC, and music CDs.

The sound quality of music played on Clementine music player is great. Music files played on it sound loud, and clear. Music plays very smoothly in Clementine without slowdown and choppy audio problems. The sound quality of streaming music from Sound Cloud, and other online services is smooth.

I like the simple to use user interface of Clementine with the large playlist list on the right of the program, and music playback buttons on the bottom. The Search, information, file explorer, and storage devices sidebar on the left of Clementine makes it easy for me to search my music library, and the internet for music to play on my computer. It is also easy to adjust the volume, and equalizer in Clementine.

Clementine is inspired by Amarok 1.4 music player. It has a lot of nice features. It can play many different music file formats like MP3, OGG, and Flac, and it can play Audio CDs as well. Clementine can play music online from Spotify, Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers, so you can listen to music online when you are connected to the internet. You can also listen to music which you uploaded to your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive online storage accounts. You can create smart and dynamic playlists in Clementine. It supports Tabbed playlists, M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX playlist files. Clementine has Music Visualisations from projectM. Clementine music player also can go online, and find and display Lyrics and artist biographies and photos for the song, or album you are playing. I can Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, so I can organise my music with Clementine. It can even Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz. It can missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon. You can use Clementine to download, and listen to podcasts. It has desktop notifications on Linux, and Mac.You can also use a Google Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line as a remote control to control Clementine music player. You can use Clementine to copy music to an iPod, iPhone, or MP3 player. It can also trans-code music to different music file formats like MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.

Clementine also runs very fast even on my slower Raspberry Pi 2 mini computer which has a 900MHz mobile ARM CPU, 1GB of RAM, 8GB Storage, and onboard video and sound. Clementine only takes a few seconds to open after I open it by clicking on its shortcut icon on my desktop. It also plays music on my computer, and online music from the internet very smoothly without slowdown problems like choppy/slow audio. When I have Clementine open, and playing music, It also does not slow down my computer, so my computer runs smoothly even when Clementine is playing my music library in the background while I use my PC to browse the web, type on, and office tasks like word processing. It also does not use a lot of storage space on my Storage drive on my computer since the installer file is only a few MBs in size. Clementine is one of the best low system resource usage music player for desktop and laptop computers which run Windows, Linux, Mac, and Raspbian Linux for the Raspberry Pi.

Clementine Remote Mac Mini

Clementine is a fast, simple to use, feature-rich and very reliable free music player which works for Linux, Windows, Mac, and the Raspberry Pi 2.

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Learn more about Clementine at https://www.clementine-player.org/