Clementine vs Lollypop

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.

You can view all the albums you have in one long list. Clicking on one of them will bring a popup at the bottom of the screen where you will see a list of all the songs on that album.

The latest version has a good full-screen layout and is very responsive. Goes very smoothly from full screen to minimal player (also being a GTK+ app).

This applies for most players in the "Linux world", but not for all. Therefore I consider it worth mentioning.

There is constant improvements, librem and gnome3 is possibly the future.

Lollypop allow you to play music from the web (iTunes charts and search from Spotify).

One example being the conditional use of client side decorations (a.k.a. header bars) depending on the currently active desktop environment.

The only one that can play a lot of files without to stop.

You can add songs to a queue, and then re-order or remove songs as you please. It works similarly to a temporary playlist.

The newest version features a nice interface for adding, browsing, and playing online radio stations. This gives you access to more music than you would normally have, which can help expand your music library for free.