Saturday, 2 January 2010

How UK Napster users can access the pretty US Beta

The Yanks get a pretty new Beta of the streaming Napster site, music.napster.com , however my UK account won't sign into it properly. There is a workaround however. The instructions are using Firefox, although Chrome will work if you spoof Firefox's User Agent.

Open http://music.napster.com

Click "sign in" near the top left of the page. This will pop open a login box. Enter your UK Napster login details. Click "Sign In".

The login box will now change to have the normal Napster login page inside it. Right click on this embedded page, select "This Frame -> Open Frame in New Tab".

Move to the new tab you've just opened, it should be the normal "www.napster.co.uk" homepage. Click "Member Login" and login as usual. It should sign you into your old faithful Napster account.

While you are still signed into the old Napster, go back to the tab with Beta Napster open. Click the login box's "x " to close JUST the login box, DO NOT CLOSE THE WHOLE TAB.

Press F5 or click Refresh, you should now be signed into the new pretty Napster Beta. You can close the tab with the old Napster in it.

There are other ways off doing this whole process, but this is the only method I could get to work consistently. The new Beta is much prettier and generally more reliable for me than the old Napster, I recommend you give it a try!

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