How to Listen to Jamendo Radio and Tracks from the Browser
In case you do not know, Jamendo is a show case for music licensed under Creative Commons licences, with a lot of great tracks to listen to. However, after the recent upgrade, I found that I was no longer able to listen to their radio stations or press the listen button of their tracks using Firefox, my browser of choice.
Here is what I discovered on how to re-enable it after some investigation: first of all, you need to enable and/or whitelist JavaScript for jamendo.com. If you are using NoScript, you can use the “S” button on the Add-on bar for that.
Furthermore, the new Jamendo requires Adobe Flash to be whitelisted as well. If you are using FlashBlock, then go to “Tools → Add-Ons → Extensions → Flashblock → Preferences → Whitelist” and add http://www.jamendo.com/ there. I don’t know how to properly enable the listening on browsers and platforms which do not have Adobe Flash installed, so blame Jamendo.com - not me. (And, yes, I know that Flash is evil.)
There may be some other obstacles on the way, but now everything is working fine for me. I am going to complain to Jamendo that in this HTML 5 day and age, one needs to use Flash to listen to their streams, which, as I recall, was not necessary in the old Jamendo.
Happy listening.