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Kludge: Make Songbird 0.4 play Rhapsody tracks.

Fri, 02/01/2008 - 11:36 — nwood

Start Songbird.

Get Songbird

Type about: config in the location bar

Type useragent in the Filter box.

Right click on general.useragent.extra.songbird and copy the value to a text doc on your desktop for safe keeping. You may want to undo this change later!!!

Now modify that value to be Firefox/2.0.0.11. (Version probably not important.)

(Note: setting general.useragent.extra.songbird = Firefox/2.0.0.11 did not work for me.)

Now I can sign in to Rhapsody, but I'm prepared for other things to break because of that edit! If they do I'll change back to Songbird/0.4 (20071226135127).

When I have more time I'll try to investigate their javascript more thoroughly. And upgrade this from "Kludge" to "HowTo".

Reference: http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/2244


Comments

Fri, 02/01/2008 - 11:45 — Rob Knight (not verified)

Great Find

I had to abandon Rhapsody several months ago because of the instability of the plugin on Mac browsers. But this is great and maybe I'll give it another try in Songbird.

Cheers,
Rob

Fri, 02/01/2008 - 11:58 — nwood

The next step

My ultimate goal is to be able to play Rhapsody in the bird with the AudioScrobbler AddOn enabled and have my Rhapsody played tracks submitted to Last.fm.