While searching
Digg I came across
Pandora. Pandora is a free service that takes your favorite artist or song and finds other songs that you should like. It is very cool. You can then listen to the songs. It is basically a radio station that plays only what you like. If you notice the title there is a way to download the music that Pandora plays. This tutorial is a combination of stories I found on Digg.
1. First, go to Pandora and type in your favorite artist or song.
2. When the music starts to play pause the music.(Pandora MUST be open or else the folder is cleared)
3. Pandora caches the music in a folder on your HD. All you have to do is find it.
4. It should be in "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Temp\plugtmp" Or at least it is on my PC. (For what to look for on Mac and Linux go
here)
5. If you can't find the folder do a search for it.
6. The music is stored in the "about" files. I have noticed that Pandora caches the song after the one currently playing. So if you are looking for a specific song then you might want to look at the next to last one.
7. Copy the "about" file that you want to use to another folder.
8. To be able to play it add the ending ".mp3" to the end of it. Make sure that under Tools, Folder Options, View that the box next to "Hide extensions for known file types" is unchecked.
9. The icon of the file should change to look like a music file.
10. Play the MP3 in your music player of choice to verify it is the song that you wanted. Correct the ID3 information and you are good to go.
11. If you go back to Pandora and click on the Album cover you can click "Buy this album from Amazon" to get all of the info about the song including the album artwork.
UPDATE
I have discoverd a way to get around the limit on the number of skips you can do an hour. If you create a 2nd station that has music you like you can swith back and forth if a song you want to skip comes up. Click on the 2nd station and then click back on the 1st one. It will advance the song by one.
