16 Jan ’08

Musicovery, Deezer

If you've given up on the US-only Pandora.com, and Last.FM hasn't snared you, then there's two france-based alternatives: Musicovery (excellent party interface) and Deezer (just excellent for music). The former is still accessible for everyone, and the latter can be unlocked with some javascript, so that you can access all the music on it.



Musicovery.com can be used right off the bat, but for Deezer.com to work for people outside France, You need to paste the following 1 line of javascript into the address bar of your browser once you are on the site, so that deezer thinks you are from France. The script changes the COUNTRY flag in the cookie that deezer sets. Just reload the website, and you can listen to any song on the website.

javascript:function SetCookie (name, value){var aujourdhui = new Date();var expdate=new Date();expdate.setTime(aujourdhui.getTime()+(24*60*60*1000));document.cookie = name + "=" + value + ";expires="+expdate.toGMTString()+";path=/";}SetCookie('COUNTRY', "FR");

Updates: Pandora is occasionally accessible again through the website globalpandora.com.