Pandora

From Hak5

Please read Wikipedia's entry on Pandora (music service) for general information.

Pandora's Jar

A.K.A. Pandora Timeshifting App

Pandora's Jar was started quite some time back by Hak.5 forum member "irieb". The project has since grown and has changed from author to author keeping it almost frequently updated. It's most recent iteration, versions 7.3.1 and 7.3.4 (distributed as 7.3.2 on download links), are still quite a work in progress. A number of fixes have been shared, but nothing concrete. Many of the issues still plaguing Pandora's Jar have been there since creation of such features.

Issues still standing

Fetching song information from Pandora for use in other forms (this has been greatly improved on, but still troublesome)

Syncing last.fm listened to list with Pandora's Jar

Extracting audio files from Pandora

Locating and fetching outside information for CDDB, lyrics, artist/albums information, and last.fm misc info

Setup and usage instructions are mostly available through the forums at Pandora Timeshifting App: Main Discussion Thread

To use Pandora's Jar you will need the following installed, a version of Pandora's Jar (of course), Firefox 1.0+, Flash Player 8, and J2RE 5.0. All of which can be procured at the links below.

Relevant links

Sun's Java Runtime Environment
Mozilla Firefox
Flash Player 8
Pandora