I prefer last.fm, which tracks your iTunes/iPod habits and creates radio stations that match your tastes (and showes pretty diagrams and top lists)

www.last.fm

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According to product page. PandoraJam also supports scrobbling your Pandora songs to last.fm.

Personally, I boycott the last.fm folks after they crossed the picket line on radio silent day. Plus, I find the Pandora engine much more successful at matching music types and finding new music I actually like.

Still, if you have Airfoil you can stream pandora ....and everything else that runs through your mac....to airport express anyway. Check out PandoraBoy for a cheap clean way to just play Pandora in separate program with Airfoil.

Still, the ability to record and import to iTunes makes PandoraJam pretty tempting.....but is that legal?

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"I listen to music the way Jobs intended: on my iPod that is filled to the brim with only iTunes Store purchased music..."

You're kidding, right?

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No Pandora for listeners outside the US of A:

"We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for most listeners located outside of the U.S."

I'll (have to) stick with LastFM or Live365

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Cool service...I'm listening to Ben Folds right now...and fun way of writing (damn hippies). Thx for the poiner.

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I bought Pandora Jam for the office. I also set up a new Last.fm account to scrobble to rather than go to my own. Pandora Jam doesn't scrobble properly to newer Last.fm accounts. This isn't a problem with my older account. Oh well. It's still a good piece of software

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Record? Doesn't that violate the terms of service for your Pandora account?

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I like the idea of this app, but I am always uncomfortable about paying for software that does things that might get it shut down one day. If the RIAA comes along and tells them to stop, all of a sudden I have no more app (or one that can no longer do what I bought it for). Not to mention, would the developer be obligated to provide refunds if it stopped working? Is this why most of these kind of borderline-illegal apps are free?

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I reside in Denmark in the EU, and the current licensing laws makes it too expensive for pandora to run over here. I would really love to use this app and discover new music in an easier way, but sadly that's not possible right now. I guess I just have to wait...

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How long do you think before the music biz is all over that for a slice?

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You're kidding, right? A commercial, for-money application that helps you steal Pandora's music?

Ignoring whether or not such an app is ethical or not - how long before Pandora comes down on this guy like a two ton weight? They wouldn't have any choice, he's undermining their entire business model and any chance they have of surviving the copyright fight that their in.

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From the Pandora TOS page:

You agree that you will not:

3.2 copy, store, edit, change, prepare any derivative work of or alter in any way any of the tracks streamed through the Pandora Services;

Now, being a user of the BitTorrent, I usually say screw that. But Pandora is one of the good guys. This app is going to wind up being a tool for the dark empire that is the RIAA.

The fact that they are FREAKING CHARGING for this software is ridiculous. What? Did this guy break his leg chasing ambulances, so he turned to cocoa programming?

Someone needs to come out with an app that lets me steal all the software from BitCartel's site.

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Does this app actually download the mp3 from Pandora's servers, or does it record the streamed audio?

I ask because I can DEFINITELY tell a difference in quality when comparing a song streamed through the Pandora flash player and the same song downloaded from Pandora's servers.

For those who don't mind getting their hands dirty..

If you want to download a song from Pandora.. get the Firefox extension httpguidedog, and watch the HTTP GETs while listening to Pandora.

You will notice there are GETs from audio-XXXX.pandora.com .. those are the songs!

If you want to download the songs, the last song played is usually the last GET URL with audio in the address (but it MAY be the second to last, since Pandora pre-loads the next track on occasion).

The GET URLs will be in the format: audio-XXXXX-XXXXX.pandora.com/access/XXXXXXXXX?version=4&lid=XXXXXXX&token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The X's after /access/ is actually a large number, but determines the file name.. so change this as you see fit (e.g. add an appropriate extension ::cough:: mp3 ::cough::) just make sure to leave the lid and token

Open the URL in a new window/tab and you should get a download prompt!

You may notice some other interesting GET URLs.. images-XXXXX-XXXXX.pandora.com ... album art!

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PandoraBoy is the free version of this program, but without the copyright infringement aftertaste.

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Couldn't you use AudioHijack for this?

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Wow, anyone want to start a betting pool before the cease and desist arrives? I've got my money on within 1 business day.

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Totally agree with others - this is all kinds of illegal.

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