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HOWTO: Get Rhapsody to Work on Ubuntu Linux

I subscribe to Rhapsody, the music service.  I have no Windows machines any more (except for my work laptop), but that’s OK: Rhapsody has a web client, that (barely) works on Macs.  Recently, I decided toRhapsody player try to make it work on my Ubuntu machine.

I use Ubuntu at work, for non-work things.  Since I telecommute, I have no local IT support, to fix computer diseases, and so I need to protect my Windows laptop at all costs:  no browsing anything that I (or my company) didn’t write.

So I have a separate machine, running Ubuntu Linux, for Web browsing, music playing, video watching, etc., as well as a backup server.

Everything works great, except that the Rhapsody plugin for Firefox wouldn’t function.

It was a bit of a slog to make it work, which I lay out here, in hopes that others will find it useful.

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