If, like me, you have been using the site deezer.com , you may have noticed that most of the songs are greyed out, and there is no way of playing them.
For those who do not know it, the site deezer lets you play music online for free. The site is neat and the interface friendly and easy to use. And most importantly the choice of music is quite important.
After some research, I found out that the site is based in France (by that I actually mean the company), and if you are accessing the site from outside of France then for copyright reasons you won't be able to play most of the songs (they use GeoIP location for that, which is finding out where you are from your IP address).
Fortunately there is a trick, for firefox users (and opera users apparently, although I have not tried it).
First you will need to download greasemonkey , a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function.
Once you have installed it install the Deezer Version 2 Unlocker.
And there you go, you should now be able to use deezer as if you were in France, and have access to all of the songs and albums.
(once you're at it you might as well install the deezer ads remover)
Please let me know if you know of other ways to use deezer outside of France, say on internet explorer for instance.
Labels: deezer, free music online, geoip, new technology, script, tip