Being the extremely fast and active ninjas that we are, a recent question was asked by “Howakakock” on how to record songs from the Pandora music service onto your own computer.
First, here is quick bit of background information about Pandora:
- It is an automated music recommendation and internet radio system powered by the Music Genome Project.
- Pandora is free to use forever, how ever you are limited certain features per hour.
- Choose one artist and it will generate a customized playlist for related artists.
To get listening, all you have to do is take a visit to pandora.com and start generating a playlist. Though todays tutorial is not on listening to Pandora, but liking the music selection so much that you would like to save some of it to your hard drive.
What You Need:
- Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
- The latest version of Java
- Pandoras Jar (Download here)
Preparation:
- Download Pandoras Jar.
- Extract the .zip file to your hard drive. (Example: C:\pandora-TutorialNinjas\)
- Browse to the location where you extracted Pandora’s Jar and double click on “pandora” (pandora.jar).
Immediately, a box will open and it should tell you:Welcome to Pandora’s Jar
Attempting to launch on port 80…OK!
[ready, lets grab some MP3's!!!] - Once you are prompted with this message in the box, open Firefox and go to http://localhost:80.
- This will bring you to the modded version of Pandora’s page.
By following the on-screen instructions shown in “Pandoras Jar” on the web page you will instantly be able to rip the songs you are listening to, complete with proper MP3 tags.
Tips!
- Ripped MP3s will be saved to your extracted Pandoras directory in a folder called “MP3″. (Example: C:\pandora-TutorialNinjas\mp3\)
- Turning on the feature “Cruise Control” and then clicking “Save Settings” will cause Pandora Jar to automatically rip every song played.
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I receive an error message when i try to ‘Grab this track”
Under the grab it button, it reads ‘unable to locate artist and song information’
The Pandora’s Jar process window says ‘unable to rip mp3 unable to find file make sure you have Pandora running’
I went to the Java update link in your post and it confirmed I have the latest.
At the bottom of the browser window it says Jar Ver: 7.4.0 Beta
Has Pandora blocked your service already?
thats weird
i clicked the get this track button but NOTHING happpend! i have the latest version of java so why isnt it working?
I had the same problem as Steve. Do I have to be using windows for this to work?
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I followed the instructions, running xp / firefox. This is a fresh setup.install. Latest everything. The local host plays the music, but the “grab this track” button appears to do NOTHING. If I set the cruis control on, I get a “initiating mp3 rip” message, but no mp3’s appear (let stand for 15 min).
Am I missing something? OR does it just not work?
Were looking to update and renew previous articles with FAQ.
Still waiting on that that FAQ.