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December 16, 2005
Rhapsody on Linux (and Mac)
A couple weeks ago we released a web version of Rhapsody (rhapsody.com). It doesn't offer 100% of the feature set of the Win32 thick client (no playlist management yet, no download or CD burning support) but it supports Firefox on Linux/x86, and Firefox and Safari on Mac/PPC.
I have to say, I love Rhapsody ('s one of the major reasons I work where I work), and enabling playback on my linux box, and my Powerbook, are probably the coolest thing the company has done in years...
So I'll start posting links to cool music, like this, and all you need to do to listen is sign up for a Rhapsody account. There's a free service tier that allows you to listen to 25 tracks of your choice from the collection each month, but once you've had a taste, you'll probably want to upgrade. As with anything good, the first one's free.
For our expatriated friends, sorry, it's still US only - don't blame us, blame the gorram lables.
Oh, and in case anyone else out there has trouble downloading the plugin from a 32bit Firefox running on an x86_64 linux system, override your useragent string from something like this:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7
to this:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7
by setting general.useragent.override. (enter about:config the the URL bar, right click, add a new String value with the aforementioned name and value).
Posted by dberger at December 16, 2005 9:57 AM
Comments
Anti-Canadian Rhetoric I say!
:)
Posted by: Scott Snyder at December 17, 2005 8:28 PM