Clementine vs MusicBee

Clementine features competent tag managing for all music files, be it album art or just simple text entries.

Clementine is easy to get up and running with lyrics, equalizer, online info, etc., within minutes after installation.

A fork of the 1.X line of Amarok, Clementine favours usability over design trends.

Organizes your music folder based on the tags of your library.

There is a very good remote app for Android. The app lets you do a lot: from the usual volume controls to checking the lyrics on your phone. You can even download the songs from Clementine onto your phone.

Clementine includes support for services such as Ampache, Google Play Music, Spotify, and many internet radio stations such as Jamendo and Icecast. It's also possible to search all available sources (local and online) at once, as well as mixed content playlists.

There is a built-in equalizer with many presets from genre-specific rock, pop, and party, to experiences such as large hall and live. You can also tweak it yourself and name your own preset.

Clementine gathers the user's listening data to use for smart playlists. Clementine uses your listening history to play music similar to the music you play most - which typically is music you will like but maybe haven't discovered yet.

Users can format any of their music files to a different format with Clementine's built-in format conversion tool.

Fetches lyrics from several lyric providers.

Unlike some other players in this list, Clementine doesn't seem to go unresponsive in the Ubuntu 16.04 system and looks really good with options for Visualization too.

Clementine allows the user to move and organize audio files easily. Some examples include the following:

• It's easy to find a specific album song (find artist, select album, select song).
• It's easy to add songs to a playlist and queue the songs.
• It's easy to rename files from their metadata (artist, album, song number, etc).
• It's easy to add cover images.
• There are options to find duplicates, untagged songs, etc.

MusicBee can be skinned which can significantly change the appearance of a player.
To apply a skin, it must first be downloaded, moved to the appropriate folder, and after restarting MusicBee, it can be applied. A collection of skins can be found here. It's also possible to customize the layout by choosing which panels to display.

MusicBee can automatically identify songs based on their sound signature and use that information to pull metadata about the song (such as tags, artwork, and lyrics).

MusicBee offers a very straight-forward and easy-to-use interface.

Your media library is stored in a flat file rather than a traditional database, limiting its ability to manage truly massive collections of audio files, but offering far reduced processing overhead for small to medium-large collections.

A version of MusicBee can be used without having to be installed. It can be kept on an external device and run from that.

A collection of plugins can be found here. These plugins extend the uses of the app from iOS support, last.fm support, to streaming services support.

In addition to automatically pulling lyrics for songs, MusicBee can synchronise music playback with lyrics.

High-end audio cards can be easily used to their full potential without any additional software due to WASAPI and ASIO support.

MusicBee allows the user to subscribe to and auto-download podcasts.

MusicBee allows scrobbling with Last.fm.

Not only does it allow MiniLyrics to search for and add synchronized lyrics to your music files, but the MiniLyrics window can be docked in MusicBee over its own lyrics panel so you can edit them and see them displayed along with whatever you're playing.

Current file count exceeds 500,000+. Updates the library faster than other similar feature rich players whilst being fully capable of playback, id tag editing, even visualiser generation simultaneously, limited only by the power of your PC. If your experience is different you likely don't have a capable machine.

There are detailed instructions in the community forum describing how to create a suitable WINE prefix in which to install MusicBee with nearly all the features operating as they do in Windows. There is also support for Linux using CrossOver by CodeWeavers, who offer an automated installer to accomplish the same result on nearly all major Linux distributions as well as Google's ChromeOS.

Has media library support that can displays all available tags plus custom tags.

There is a plugin available that allows users to sync their iOS devices (including music ad podcasts).

It's possible to lock down access to settings while still having access to the player. This is great for parties, allowing guests to browse and play music without worrying if they will mess something up.

MusicBee tells you the time you are seeking to on mouseover on the seek bar.