sonixd VS Clementine

Compare sonixd vs Clementine and see what are their differences.

sonixd

A full-featured Subsonic/Jellyfin compatible desktop music player (by jeffvli)

Clementine

:tangerine: Clementine Music Player (by clementine-player)
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sonixd Clementine
41 69
1,758 3,637
- 0.9%
1.7 7.6
2 months ago about 1 month ago
TypeScript C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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sonixd

Posts with mentions or reviews of sonixd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • Navidrome crossplatform desktop client with offline mode
    2 projects | /r/navidrome | 6 Dec 2023
    Try this https://github.com/jeffvli/sonixd
  • A way to stream private music on Windows?
    6 projects | /r/privacy | 27 Jun 2023
    You can use Sonixd to stream music from your own Jellyfin or Subsonic server.
  • I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2023
  • What's yout preferred selfhosted music streaming suite?
    18 projects | /r/selfhosted | 19 Jan 2023
    I've you're still looking for a desktop client, check out Sonixd. Also for both Subsonic and Jellyfin. Best I've found. It stores playlists in the backend and has MPRIS supporr.
  • Similar artists
    2 projects | /r/navidrome | 13 Jan 2023
    Glad you like Navidrome. This information is already in place, just not exposed in the UI. If you use a client that provides this info (Sonixd, Airsonic Refix, DSub, ...) You you see this. Ex: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/331353/212409922-ba5f589f-dadb-449f-a3e9-03065b8ba8e5.png
  • I made a Navidrome display
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 Jan 2023
    Cool project! For anyone that’s struggling with chrome tabs and is looking for a good Navidrome client for desktop sonixd is fantastic: https://github.com/jeffvli/sonixd
  • Looking for a good music playlist generator
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Jan 2023
    To summarise what we've gotten to so far: - Jellyfin web can do this using Instant Mix feature, but instant mix is at present pretty basic (see discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/o0eic8/what_is_instant_mix_actually_based_on_also_is/). It won't work very well at the level of "Artist" but starting from a specific track or album produces a pretty good mix for some music in my library. Instant mixes can be saved as playlists. - Some Jellyfin apps can do this: especially symfonium (android) has advanced features for making mixes. The only limitation here seems to be saving playlists back to jellyfin server. And if you don't have an android phone and sonixd has a very limited ability to create a (completely, and imho unhelpfully) random playlist. - There are more convoluted solutions. Jellyfin users can try to use Subsonic clients with jellyfin by installing a server shim, but it seems this isn't being developed anymore and I wasn't able to get it running. It is also possible to use jellyfin as an MPD server, so more generic clients can be used here too.
  • Finally set up Jellyfin for my music library. Wow!
    1 project | /r/jellyfin | 2 Dec 2022
  • self hosting but not missing out on new music
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 29 Nov 2022
  • A simple, clean and cross-platform music player
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2022
    It won't be applicable to everyone, but I want to give a plug to Sonixd[1]: it's a Subsonic client, meaning that it'll work with Subsonic or any other music server that uses the Subsonic API (Navidrome, Airsonic, gonic).

    It's an Electron application, which won't be for anyone, but it's sufficiently smooth and snappy for me.

    [1]: https://github.com/jeffvli/sonixd

Clementine

Posts with mentions or reviews of Clementine. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-05.
  • .flac music players for mac with options for exclusive mode
    2 projects | /r/mac | 5 Jun 2023
    Try Clementine -> https://www.clementine-player.org/
  • Anyone dual booting?
    1 project | /r/pcmasterrace | 4 Jun 2023
    I'm not sure what point you're making. I run plenty of 5 year old software. My music player hasn't been updated in 7 years and works totally fine.
  • Software like Exact Audio Copy or iTunes to import and organize music (FLAC/MP3)
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 27 Apr 2023
    I have used k3B, Asunder and SoundJuicer for ripping music on Linux. I still don't think the flac decoder is installed by default on linux so: sudo apt install flac. I use MusicBrainz Picard for metadata and organization and Clementine for playback. There main branch of Clementine hasn't been updated for years, but you can get the newest build off of github or Strawberry is a fork of the Clementine project without the milk visualizations.
  • [Spotify] Il miglior cliente alternativo?
    1 project | /r/initaliano | 20 Apr 2023
  • recommendation: music player (with network capabilities)
    3 projects | /r/ManjaroLinux | 19 Apr 2023
    Clementine is nice!
  • Is the Clementine Music Player good for running in the background?
    1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 13 Mar 2023
    One unsung feature I've always liked about PCs that consoles don't have is that if you don't like a game's music you can just switch it off and run a media player in the background. So I was hoping to do the same on the Steam Deck. I want one that can both: 1. Play internet radio stations, spotify, etc when at home and having access to wifi. 2. Play MP3, OGG, etc music files from the SD card for when I'm away and don't have internet. Searching the discovery store in desktop mode I found exactly one media player that can do both, the Clementine Music Player. https://www.clementine-player.org/ So questions: Has anyone here tried that one and can confirm it runs nicely in the background without causing issues?
  • Reasons to use mpd over "normal" music players
    1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 5 Mar 2023
  • Open source StreamDeck alternative
    24 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2023
    Clementine control: Control Clementine.
  • Clementine or another Music Player?
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 24 Jan 2023
    I prefer Clementine. It is being actively developed. They haven't had a stable release since, I think 2016, but they are still working on it. Their release clients for 1.4 are quite stable. If you want to use Clementine: https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/releases/tag/1.4.0rc1-871-g982d8fbb6 here is the current RC release from last week. Strawberry is a good player too. I tend to use the visualizations when listening to music on fullscreen, which can be added to the system, but I just like them included with the player.
  • Game night playlists
    1 project | /r/cyberpunkred | 25 Dec 2022
    Here's my long list from 2021 that I have yet to update again with some new finds (always adding to it). I create playlists that are matched to situations (home, Combat Zone, various districts, venues, etc) and then load them up in Clementine Player which makes it easy to tab from one playlist to another (+ automatic crossfade)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sonixd and Clementine you can also consider the following projects:

airsonic-advanced

strawberry - :strawberry: Strawberry Music Player

owntone-server - Linux/FreeBSD DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay 1 and 2 speakers (multiroom), Apple Remote (and compatibles), Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio.

audacious - A lightweight and versatile audio player

Ampache - A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.

Navidrome Music Server - 🎧☁️ Modern Music Server and Streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic

jellyfin-roku - The Official Roku Client for Jellyfin

strawberry - A GraphQL library for Python that leverages type annotations 🍓

quodlibet - Music player and music library manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS

Kodi Home Theater Software - Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

deadbeef - DeaDBeeF Player