Pandora: How to Rip and Save Pandoras Music to MP3 Files for Free
Contributed by MickeyMouse 
Tagged: Internet Pandora is an amazing music service. If you want to actually save the music to your hard drive to keep forever and forever, these steps will allow you to do it easily. Burn straight to mp3 with tags, titles, and sorting intact. Updated!
You need firefox as well.
1. Go to pandora.com and setup an account.
2. Download and run Pandora’s Jar:
New instructional guide here:
http://forums.hak5.org/index.php/topic,983.0.html
3. Click the Extract All Files link to uncompress the files to a directory on your computer. I use c:\pandora
4. Goto the directory that contains your downloaded files (c:\pandora)
5. Double-click on pandora.jar.
6. The file will launch and you will see something like:
Welcome to Pandoras Jar
Attempting to lauch on port 80...OK
[ready, lets grab some MP3'S!!!]
7. Visit http://localhost in firefox
8. Firefox should load with Pandoras Jar version of Pandora
9. As you listen, the mp3s will be created in a directory called mp3 in your original pandoras jar installation directory (c:\pandora\mp3)
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josi said on October 18, 2008
I tried to do that and doesn’t work: “unable to rip MP3 unable to find file make sure you have Pandora running in a FIRFOX browser”
Vivada said on November 15, 2008
Awesome tip! Thanks MickeyMouse.
Mattress said on November 21, 2008
Great site. thank you for the post =)
lashavia lovett said on November 21, 2008
my question is how how download music and save it to my harddrive
Anonymous said on November 25, 2008
huh
Rider said on November 30, 2008
unable to locate artist and song information.
Waiting (last.fm).
* Waiting (top fans).
ANY FIXES FOR THIS?
Anonymous said on December 5, 2008
I can only download one then it dosen’t work
DC said on December 7, 2008
I dont think step 7-8 is working, I go to open it up and it opens as a blank page called aphrodite. Is there anything I can do to fix that?
gah. said on December 12, 2008
does it have to be a firefox browser?
Evan said on December 17, 2008
Thanks for this tool, it really helped me
Caravan awning dude said on December 22, 2008
well I think that this is great tool, although it might not be working at this moment.
Mike Crabe said on December 23, 2008
Interesting, really interesting way to obtain free music
Honesty Pays said on January 5, 2009
If Pandora gets shut down because of people like you doing this kind of crap, I’m gonna be real mad. I pay for my music because I respect the things that good music is made from. I pay for my music because I love my music and I wouldn’t feel right listening to it if it were stolen. Don’t be a jerk. Pay for your music.
Dave Mason Lyrics said on January 5, 2009
nice and adequate
Robert Gabriel Melanson said on January 6, 2009
Well, this is a great idea BUT, this is just killing the artist and the music industry. Do you want the musicians to make more, great music? Then stop STEALING there art and start buying it so you can support them. You may think all musicians are rich bastards, WRONG. It’s just enough to pay the bill’s unless there signed to a major label and then still it’s just enough to make it buy. Also, isn’t the point of buying an album so you can go home, sit down and listen to it? Enjoy it? You damn thieves are what’s killing the music industry. Everyone now looks at music and mp3’s like its just some 4MB file on the computer that doesn’t mean shit. I work my ass off creating, composing, mixing, mastering, a song. I making a little over minimum wage working full time and I’m trying to make it as an independent artist. I make about 60 cents a song. That’s NOTHING. And then to find out there are people who want to steal my art? NO. That’s crap. Go steal some rich Hip Hop or crappy Rock artist’s “art” and be done with it, but Pandora is a great place to find NEW, unheard, up-and-coming artists. So, don’t steal there shit. Buy it, support them, and hope they create more great music.
sealy said on January 16, 2009
Worked like a charm for me! Thanks so much for the guide
Jay said on January 22, 2009
Robert,
I take your point.
However, after tax I earn about $12 per hour. If I could afford CDs I’d buy ‘em.
3 further points:
1. I go to gigs (over $300 spent this year) and some of that goes to the artist, and the prices have gone up insanely in the last 24 months.
2. Pandora has advertising – when I listen on Pandora, the ads pay for the licence fee which they in turn pay pay – so when I rip from Pandora, something goes to the artist, unlike if I just download from a peer-to-peer site.
3. Anything in Pandora’s TOS which prevents recording for PERSONAL use (like we used to tape stuff off the radio in the old days and put in our walkman) is probably illegal – though this hasn’t been totally tested in court, similar cases have for AM radio (thus, it is not stealing, it is – legally speaking – fair use). It’s not like I’m ripping a crappy 64kbps (or whatever it is) stream and then playing it in a club.
4. Generally, after a couple of listens in the car, I’m back to Pandora again (and I’d guess my usage pattern is not atypical) so even morally speaking I feel like I’m getting fair use, UNLIKE when I download some albums off peer to peer and then keep them forever instead of buying, which does, indeed, leave the artist with nothing.
Any thoughts?
Jay said on January 22, 2009
Also…. The Safari trick mentioned in the thread above works on Safari for Windows as of Jan 2009.
Open Safari’s activity window and look for entries starting with “http://audio-sjl-”
– you have to manually name the track and append “.mp3″ to the file name too, but it’s easy and it works.
Z said on January 22, 2009
um… i think the links r down :(… anybody know if its just my comp?
A said on January 24, 2009
Yeah i have the same problem. i type in http://localhost and am brought to a site named
“Aphrodite” with a blank page.
Tammy said on January 28, 2009
ONLY USA
John Engelbert said on February 10, 2009
Hello,
I have Leopard for Mac and I was wondering how I am supposed to be able to rip the songs off of Pandora onto my hard drive.
Thanks
stolenfat said on February 16, 2009
when i run the jar, my compy just wants to uzip it… any help?
Anonymous said on March 9, 2009
The record industries are the real thieves. Bypass them and use Web 2.0 technologies such as peer-to-peer to your advantage to gain a large fan base and you’ll make more money on your own.
Anonymous said on April 19, 2009
You have no idea what Pandora is, do you?
Anonymous said on July 14, 2009
are you kidding me? Pandora is such an awesome service and you are completely undermining it! Pandora could wind up getting shut down because of crap like this…
PLEASE, PLEASE, just buy your damn music or listen for FREE on Pandora’s website!
Anonymous said on September 18, 2009
You said you could download them on my computer but i’m not clear how? it took me forever to figure out what java RE was cause there are different Re’s! RDK, am
I right? I’m not a novice but I’m not a Pro either. I didn’t understand alot of what you described. Like Pandora’s Jar. I never seen it anywhere. And all the other stuff was so confusing to me. I downloaded the RDK and I don’t know what to do next, so how to download songs on to my computer, I guess I’ll never know. It’s a shame, Because I have some really righteous stations on there!
Jason C said on December 9, 2009
Nice. still works.
mattress said on December 17, 2009
this is valuable information. I will definitely tell my wife!
eniwetok said on December 30, 2009
I think using FreeCorder is easier. It was one of the few recorders that would work with my AMD/nVida PC. FreeCorder creates individual files at whatever bitrate you want. I oversample at 160kbs even though Pandora seems to be streaming at 128kbs. I make note of all the songs that are playing so I can rename the mp3s… and after each plays, I disapprove it so it won’t play in that station again.
Anonymous said on January 2, 2010
Freecorder 4 allows 192 which is the max speed for Pandora. Works
good!
Anonymous said on January 5, 2010
Is this Pandora hack still working? Sounds almost too good to be true. Also, not quite clear on what a jar is?
Anonymous said on January 29, 2010
also try AudialsOne, audials.com!
Anonymous said on February 8, 2010
Simple plea here – please don’t use this app. The more people who use this and other similar applications, the faster streaming music services like Pandora and Last.fm will go away.
I like these services because I can legally listen to music I enjoy, and learn about new artists that are similar to my tastes w/o having to budget a small fortune to do so. I like the try before you buy model.
While piracy will get you the song(s) you want and satisfy your short term need for a booty shake, a headbang, or whatever your fix is, it leads to concert ticket inflation, less original music, and more starving artists that have to wait longer and longer before their dreams are realized.
Anonymous said on February 8, 2010
You got anything that works on Linux? fedora 12.
Anonymous said on February 8, 2010
You got anything for Linux? Fedora 12.
Anonymous said on March 29, 2010
Everything is working fine except when I am trying to Grab a song it says
unable to locate artist and song information.
Please I spend like 3 hours trying to find the problem but nothing please help me I am using
Pandora’s Jar Ver: 7.4.0
Anonymous said on March 29, 2010
Try this: http://aomrecord.com
Name said on April 8, 2010
Music industry and artists are greedy pieces of sh*t. I support the artists I want to see make it to the big time, but if you make millions and than maybe drop from 10 mil to 5 mil a year? cry me a river you shouldn’t be making that much anyway, Our country has horrible debt to everyone and we pay people for sports and music millions and millions of year while a teacher makes maybe 35-45k? Cap their salary take the rest for something real and if you want to b*tch about their hard work, get real, words on a page is not hard work and if they want people to care and buy their crap, $1 a song on itunes and $10-$20 a CD is crap, make it reasonable like say $3-5 a CD on itunes and I’d buy 10x more stuff, sorry I don’t work 8 hours a day so I can buy a few shitty cd’s that they had someone help write their songs and produce while they collect
Pamike said on April 29, 2010
Hello guys, I’m using OSX SL, listening to Pandora radio and recording all I want at 320kb/s (VBR) bitrate Stereo (no Joint Stereo) even applying enhancers like Equalizer, Reverberation, Compressor, Delay, Suboctave bass, etc etc….on the fly. So the final quality of the .mp3 I get is amazing!
…try Audio Hijack Pro.
Greetings
n/a said on May 27, 2010
Or you could just download audacity and set record to “what you hear” Would probably work as it just captures any sound coming through you sound card.
Dabackdaboot said on July 1, 2010
thats kinda bullshit. if the artists don’t say the music is free, its stealing. going ot heir web page to listen, or making a station to stream from is support. this is stealing, & its not what real fans do.
Adrian said on July 7, 2010
Get mad. Loser.
The intelligent voice. said on August 13, 2010
Yes, also anyone who ever made a mix tape on a casette from the radio deserves jail time and fines.
DO you listen to yourself talk?
Fundagelical said on September 3, 2010
Do you mail a check to your local radio station?
pay2speakisnext said on September 30, 2010
So, who said music makes money? Anybody? It’s all hype. You listen to music you like. If you could play an instrument you wouldn’t buy these other peoples music because you would be making your own. If your a struggling musician then get a real job like the rest of us.
Luis Moreno said on November 2, 2010
Music makes Money…. Money makes Music….People loose Money….Music gets People
Esjael said on November 30, 2010
Wow. Friggin’ illegal as hell. Theft is theft people. Grow a conscience.
Alandreamiller said on December 6, 2010
hi baby what are u doing
Alandreamiller said on December 6, 2010
when u were born
Me said on February 1, 2011
Can this be done on mac?
Pamike said on February 1, 2011
hey dude, read my comment above this one (9 months ago).
I actually use SL OSX.
Anonymous said on February 16, 2011
Works awesome. Thanks
Hal2012 said on April 5, 2011
To the person who created this.: I’M SURE YOU HAVE A JOB, AND LIKE TO GET PAID FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO. THEN WHY BE A HYPOCRITE AND TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO STEAL MUSIC FROM PEOPLE WHO WORK HARD TO CREATE IT? ARTISTS ARE ALREADY NOT SELLLING MUCH DO TO STREAMING, ESPECIALLY INDIE ARTISTS. WHAT YOU’RE DOING HERE IS A REFLECTION OF WHY HOW AVARICE IS DESTROYING THIS WORLD. FOR YOU KARMA, I’M SURE SOMEONE WHO RUNS YOU’RE COMPANY WILL COME GOBBLE YOU UP OR CUT YOU PAY OR PERHAPS EVEN LAY YOU OFF, AND THEN I HOPE YOU’LL BE REMINDED OF THIS POST WHICH ONLY TEACHES PEOPLE CRIMINOLOGY. YOU’RE NOT CONTRIBUTING TO MAKING THE WORLD BETTER, YOU’RE HELPING TO DESTROY THE ECONOMY, AND TRUST, IT WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU.
HAL2012
Hal2012 said on April 5, 2011
You sound like a fcking idiot. Using your own logic, I’m sure the company you work for could think of a million ways to reduce you $12 hr a job to $2 hr job. First thought: Cheap foreign labor! You dumb f-ck, that’s exactly why you make what you make: you’re a thief and the universe (or GOD) knows it. So that that $12 hr you make is your KARMA for being a a f-cking thief and soon people will begin stealing sh-t from your home, let see how you feel when they use your logic. Can’t you see, you’re part of the problem that effects you too in the long run? Naw, you can’t see it… you only see what you want and feel you can take it. Trust you will learn the hardest way bc in the end, the thief is always stuck with personal tragedy.
Hal2012
Hal2012 said on April 5, 2011
Actually, people who do popular mix tapes know the other artists and get permission as a means of promoting the existing artists and the new artists. Trust, otherwise those artists would sue. In short, just bc you can’T see the deal doeSn’t mean one does not exist. You don’t know who people consulted prior to creating a mixtape. So take you’re dumb azz logic out the mix as well as the guy and everyone ELSLE on here who feel it’s cool to steal. EVERYONE ON HERE WHO STEALS MUSIC WILL SOON HAVE SOMETHING STOLEN FROM THEM THAT MEANS A LOT TO THEM AS WELL. A LIL FORUM AS SMALL AS THIS IS YOUR KARMIC WARINING! YOU WON’T BELIEVE ME UNTIL YOUR HIT BC YOU’RE ALL SCARY-MOVIE CHARACTERS THAT ARE DUMB AS HELL.
i+hart+your+mom said on April 26, 2011
me thinks you are the industry – how does that azz falking feal? every song i steal, i consumate with the thought that it has pissed you off
ignore this child. he sucks the napster killerz pen!s. here’s to you mr industry. thank you for killing my dream. i am the artist. my music steals your profits. it speaks without asking for a dime. and it gets national airplay. your music eats at the soul of young children. i have a job, and i make music for fun. music for profit? i pity the fool.
ana said on December 15, 2011
I won’t do this because I enjoy having Pandora FREE for me to listen to.
Jailbreaker said on January 8, 2012
Oh yea. And I’ve been teaching my kids the tricks of the trade for a few years now. Soon they’ll be rippin’ music better than me in new ways I couldn’t even imagine. My son (14) is already learning PHP, C++ and other language codes to create programs. He’s already created an APP (for himself) to rip music from certain sites.
Music will be created by AI (robots) by the years 2048 anyway, so the inevitable is nearer than you think for the music industry.