Clementine on Raspberry Pi

This is a tutorial on how to build Clementine on the Raspberry Pi. I used revision B with 512 MB ram and the Raspian OS.

Note: Building Clementine on the Pi takes a lot of time, around 8 hours.

What you need

• A Raspberry Pi obviously
• At least a 8GB flash card (16GB recommended)
• Raspbian. Other distros might work as well.

Dependencies

The same as on any linux distro:

sudo apt-get install liblastfm-dev libtag1-dev gettext libboost-dev \
    libboost-serialization-dev libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools libqt4-opengl-dev \
    cmake libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev \
    libglew1.5-dev libqjson-dev libgpod-dev libplist-dev \
    libusbmuxd-dev libmtp-dev libcdio-dev \
    protobuf-compiler libprotobuf-dev libqca2-dev libqca2-plugin-ossl \
    libfftw3-dev libsparsehash-dev libsqlite3-dev

Get the source

We will compile the stable 1.2.2 release. If you want to compile the master branch, don't execute git checkout release-1.2. I haven't tested it, so it might not work!

git clone https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine.git && cd Clementine
git checkout release-1.2
cd bin

Preparing the build enviroment

Since the Raspberry Pi has only a limited amount of ram, we need to create a swap file. Without it, compiling fails when building the translations.

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1M count=512
sudo mkswap swapfile
sudo swapon swapfile

Compile

cmake ..
make -j2

Wait. A (very long) time.

After compiling

A swap file on a flash memory is not healty, so we remove the created swap file after compiling.

sudo swapoff swapfile
sudo rm swapfile

Install Clementine runtime dependencies

Raspbian doesn't have gstreamer plugins installed by default, so we have to do this now.

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-tools gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 
    gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 
    gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio pulseaudio

Set pulseaudio as default output:

gconftool-2 -t string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosink pulsesink
gconftool-2 -t string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc pulsesrc
gconftool-2 -t string --set /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/musicaudiosink pulsesink

This should give you a better audio quality.

Setting up Clementine

Start Clementine with ./clementine. The first start takes quite long as Clementine has to setup the database. After you see the main window, you should disable moodbar generation and glowing. They take too many resources you need for playback.

Now you can add your music to your library and listen to it!

Note: Clementine is quite slow on the Raspberry Pi, so be patient when using it. I experienced a few stutters when playing FLAC files as well. Other formats I haven't tested yet. Clementine Remote works as well.

Credits

http://sentryytech.blogspot.de/2012/10/compiling-retroshare-for-raspberry-pi.html for swap file

http://blog.scphillips.com/2013/01/using-a-raspberry-pi-with-android-phones-for-media-streaming/ for gstreamer tips