Wed, 04/01/2012 - 12:30 | 
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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-spotifyThen log out and log back in.
Mon, 02/01/2012 - 16:44 | webupd8.org
A while back, Clementine music player got Grooveshark and Spotify support and these, among many other new features are finally available in a stable release (1.0). You'll need a Spotify Premium / Grooveshark Anywhere account though.
Besides Spotify and GrooveShark support, the latest Clementine 1.0 also comes with a new global search feature which you can use to search for music and radio (includes your music library, radio streams, Spotify and Grooveshark), Digitally Imported (di.fm) and Sky.fm radio stations, audio CD support and Amazon as an alternate provider for album cover art.
Other changes in Clementine 1.0:
- transcoder options
- improve the organisation of the settings dialog
- album cover art searches now select the best cover automatically instead of the first one
- keyboard shortcuts to navigate between playlist tabs
- options to customise OSD messages that are shown on song changes
- cache lists of streams/friends fetched from Last.fm, di.fm, soma.fm, etc.
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Tags: clementine, GrooveShark, Linux, macosx, music player, spotify, ubuntu, windows
Wed, 14/12/2011 - 12:49 | webupd8.org
Spotify is a music streaming service that comes with a client which supports Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux as well as mobile devices such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, S60 (Symbian), webOS and more. The service is only available in a few countries for now, such as USA, UK, Spain, Sweden and more - check out the Spotify website for more info.
The (official) native Spotify Linux client got support for free accounts recently. Here is how to install it on Ubuntu and fix some bugs such as not being able to play local music in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.
Please note that Spotify for Linux is a preview release and is currently unsupported so you may encounter issues!
Install the native Linux Spotify client under Ubuntu
1. Add the Spotify repository (will be used to install Spotify and stay up to date with the latest Spotify versions).
Launch Software Sources using the following command:
Tue, 15/11/2011 - 00:18 | webupd8.org
The latest Clementine music player available in the Clementine Development PPA got some very interesting new features: you can now listen to Grooveshark or Spotify songs through Clementine. For this, you need a Spotify Premium / Grooveshark Anywhere account though.
I've only tested the Grooveshark plugin (because I don't have a Spotify Premium account) and I can tell you it works pretty well already. Also, most of the Grooveshark features can be accessed from Clementine: you can add a song to your favourites, create new playlists, add songs to a Grooveshark playlist or get a song share url. What's not yet available is listening to a Grooveshark radio station.
