Bruno Mars and his lazy gang
If you own an Apple TV or a Roku box, you would have noticed that the VEVO music videos do not appear on YouTube search results. Since most official music videos are available only through the artist’s respective VEVO channels, it is almost impossible to view them on your large screen. The solution, which I pretty much discovered by accident, seems to nicely work on Roku. Here’s what you need to do:
- Go to the Roku Channel Store and add the RateRix channel. You will find it under “Photos and Videos” category. This is actually a wrapper channel for YouTube (Shhhhhhhhh…).
- Now go to RateRix.com on your browser on PC and create an account. Then link your Roku Box and Youtube account to this one. All this is pretty much easy to figure once you create an account. Launch RateRix on Roku and login to your RateRix account.
- Login to your Youtube account on your browser on your PC and add all your favorite VEVO videos to a new or an existing playlist.
- Exit the RateRix application and launch it again on Roku. Go to My Videos. Navigate to your playlist and voila – all your music videos waiting there!
Since the VEVO videos are of high quality, they look decent on your large screen. Enjoy.
(I am now trying to figure out how to pull in the HD versions of the same to the playlist by default.) Edit: By default, it pulls the HD version of the video. So enjoy!
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