Clementine Remote Mac

Clementine is a modern music player and library organiser. Clementine is a port of Amarok 1.4, with some features rewritten to take advantage of Qt4.
Features:
* Search and play your local music library
* Listen to internet radio from Last.fm, SomaFM and Magnatune
* Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX
* Visualisations from projectM
* Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC
* Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music
* Download missing album cover art from Last.fm
* Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
* Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl)
* Remote control using a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line
* Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player
* Queue manager
This release adds support for using portable devices with Clementine. You can now copy songs to your iPod, iPhone, MTP, or USB mass storage device. See the wiki for more information. Support for using a Wii Remote as a remote control has been added. Other features include a Queue Manager, an Organise Files dialog, automatically stretching columns in the playlist, loading embedded id3v2 cover art, more library scanning options, drag and drop between playlists, and a hypnotoad. We've also reduced startup time by more than half, fixed a load of memory leaks and reduced CPU usage while playing music. See the full changelog for more information.

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.

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.

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 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.

Clementine works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. You can control the playback using an Android device or a Wii remote.

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.

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

Apart from the remote control, meta tags editing and lyrics search, Clementine has:

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

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.