YouTube Scope For Unity Video Lens With Support For VLC, Minitube, More

Lorenzo @ Atareao.es has created an Unity video lens and a YouTube scope for it, which lets you easily search and even play YouTube videos in either an external player (and thus, without using Adobe Flash) or your web browser.

The latest YouTube scope for Unity Video Lens comes with a tool which lets you select the external player you want to use for playing YouTube videos and it currently supports yviewer, VLC, Minitube (you'll need the latest 1.7 version) or your default web browser.

By default, the YouTube scope for Unity Video Lens search doesn't seem to work too good and it displays unrelated results, at least that was the case in my test. However, this can be fixed by selecting "Relevance" under "Order" in the lens filter.


To install Unity Video Lens and YouTube scope in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, use the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/lenses
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lens-video scope-youtube

To select the default player, search for "scope-youtube-configurator" in Dash.

via atareao.es; thanks to Jorge Ortega for the tip!

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Spotify Scope For Unity Music Lens

After Grooveshark, another music scope is available for the Unity Music lens: Spotify scope.

The new scope lets you search for songs and albums from the Unity Music lens and play them in Spotify and in my test, it only worked using the native Spotify Linux client.

To install Spotify Scope for Unity Music lens in Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04, use the following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-scope-spotify

Then log out and log back in.


And as usual, remember to report any bugs you may find @ Launchpad with (for this scope, add "[spotify]" at the beginning of your report title).

via G+

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Grooveshark Scope For Unity Music Lens

David Callé has released a Grooveshark scrope for the Unity Music lens which lets you search for music on Grooveshark from Dash. The new scope uses the free Grooveshark API and clicking on a search result opens a new tab in your default browser, playing the selected song.

To install the new GrooveShark scope in Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04, use the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-scope-grooveshark

Then log out and log back in.


According to David, there are a few known issues though, such as:

• the results open in different tabs and aren't enqueued
• results in the local collection are not deduplicated
• some searches don't display any results due to some encoding errors
• sometimes cover art isn't displayed the first time you search for something

If you encounter some other bugs, report them @ Launchpad.

Update: Grooveshark Scope has currently reached the API usage limits. Hopefully, it should work again in a few hours. See this comment.

Via David Callé @ Google+

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