This tutorial will help you install Clementine Audio Player on your Ubuntu computer. Clementine is a modified version of the legendary player KDE Amarok, written in Qt technology and loaded with modern features. We use Ubuntu 24.04 as an example here and you can practice this with any other Ubuntu version. Now let's begin installing and playing some audio!

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How To Install Clementine

1. Run App Center. 

2. Search for clementine.

3. Select "Debian package" from the selector.

4. Alternatively, select "Snap package" from the selector if you want it from Snap. Ignore this if you do not have idea about it yet.

5. Click Install.

6. Wait for the download and installation processes take place.

7. Clementine installed. Done.

(App Center on Ubuntu 24.04 showing Clementine and offering an Install button)

Pro Tip!

Want to learn more about Ubuntu software installation? Please read our How To Install Apps on Ubuntu From The Basics that includes explanation as well as step by step practices you can follow. Good luck!

Alternative Method To Install Clementine

This method uses Terminal's command line and you can try this instead of regular method mentioned above:

1. Run Terminal.

2. Type the following command line then press Enter:

$ sudo apt-get install clementine 

3. Wait for the process to take place until it finished.

4. Clementine Music Player installed successfully.

How To Use Clementine

1. Open up Ubuntu applications menu.

2. Find Clementine. 

3. Click Clementine. 

 (Ubuntu applications menu finds Clementine -- that is an orange fruit logo)

4. Clementine runs. 

5. Click Music -> Open Files... -> navigate to your MP3 or OGG audio files -> select one -> play. 

6. Audio recording plays.

7. Do number 1-5 to add more audio files into Clementine. 

8. Click Save Playlist if you want to save your playlist. Done.

(Clementine Music Player is playing a few audio recordings of American English the series while showing list of online radios offered to listen --another features of Clementine-- at the left)

About Clementine

Clementine is a modern audio player program inspired by the older generation of Amarok Player from KDE and it is available for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS. Its features include fast search and easy to use to play music. It is Free Software developed using Qt and GStreamer technologies by a community of developers and licensed under GNU GPL 3 license. To Ubuntu users, Clementine is officially available on Ubuntu repositories including current LTS 24.04 and still actively maintained for the future releases. To anyone wanting to contribute, Clementine Project stated that they do not accept donation but if you want to you can support them in various ways. See References section for more. Clementine official website is https://www.clementine-player.org.

See Also

Amarok Music Player on Kubuntu

How To Use Synaptic Package Manager

How To Switch Ubuntu Repository Mirror

References 

Clementine (Software) at Wikipedia

Clementine Official Code Repository at GitHub