Save music from Pandora with 3tunes

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Save music from Pandora with 3tunes

by Jordan Running May 8th 2006

Pandora is lovely, but don't you sometimes wish you could save the music you're listening to? Well, I'm fairly certain that's against Pandora's ToS, but anyway it's possible with 3tunes. 3tunes is a free app for Windows that bills itself as a "time-shifting" program for Pandora, but basically what it does is save the music you hear on Pandora to MP3 files on your hard drive. It's currently in alpha and is not without its limitations (for example, it only works with Firefox, doesn't take kindly to track-skipping, and isn't especially user-friendly), but it's in active development and will hopefully improve quickly.

[Via Lifehacker]

Tags: 3tunes, audio, download, music, pandora, rip

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ivan Lubiano said 8:38PM on 5-08-2006

If this catches on, better start saying goodbye to pandora.

pygmalion said 11:28PM on 5-08-2006

Mac OS X users can use Audio Hijack by Rogue Amoeba (http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/). The application allows rerouting the audio output of any OS X application through Hijack. Recording, encoding and post or realtime processing with DSP are supported. So you can reroute you favorite browser (not just Firefox) audio output and save your Pandora listening sessions.

m3nt0r said 6:55AM on 5-09-2006

Too bad that he chose to release it. It is just too obvious that these type of programs will destroy services like that. I hope he stops.

steve said 2:25PM on 5-09-2006

well people could do this with any recorder prog
this just makes it easier
now im just waiting to find a free easy way to rip stuff from yahoo launchcast
u kno where it names the songs and seperates them for me

so wats the audio quality on pandora anyway?

TomB said 7:35PM on 5-09-2006

Pandora.com caches MP3s which are 128kbps bitrate.

Euan said 8:13PM on 5-09-2006

Yep 5 has it right. Pandora caches the current and next songs on your harddrive. Basicially it's downloading the next song as you are listening to the current one.

I've quite often left pandora running overnight then in the morning deleted all the duplicated songs and used it as that days random playlist.

emgee said 10:10AM on 7-13-2006

Dudes, winamp radiostations aren't closing just because Streamripper has been around for years and years. No difference with Pandora!
Radio stations didn't close down or stop broadcasting just because companies started selling tapes that you could record with!

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