It seems Pandora has fixed the bug which we had been exploiting to download music. But we have a few more leads, and are working on it.
By the end of this week, you should be able to get your Pandora Downloaders running again.
Downloading and running the Pandora Downloader should be the easiest thing you would have ever done on the internet. There are no complicated options and no installers which fill your registry with data. Pandora Downloader is a simple c# application, which keeps you closer to your music.
No complicated installation, just click and play. Here is the screen shot :
To run the Pandora Downloader:
1. Download the .NET Framework from the microsoft site ( Link : Dot Net Framework 2.0 )
2. Download the PandoraDownloader binary ( Link : Pandora Downloader 1.0 )
3. Extract the binary using WinRar ( Link : WinRar 3.70 Beta 2 )
4. Start Internet Explorer
5. Go to site www.pandora.com and start the online radio. ( Starts automatically )
6. The songs which can be downloaded should not be visible. If they are not visible, press the Refresh button.
7. When you are able to view the songs, select the ones you would like to download and click Download
8. To view or play the downloaded songs, open Windows Explorer and go to address “C:Pandora”.
9. Enjoy your music, even when you are not online.
10. After you are done, to close the application, click Close
The key features in v1.0 include
1. Only download songs which you like, preventing cluttering your hard disk.
2. It can also be used without running the actual radio.
3. Queued Downloads.
4. Check for duplicate files.
5. Asynchronous Data Transfer.
I intend to add the following features soon:
1. Multiple browser support ( Notably firefox )
2. A global database for song listing.
3. Search option for song selection.
4. Mp3 player inside the application.
In case you experience any difficulties, or would like to post your suggestions and feedback, please post a comment below or mail me at sudhanshuraheja at gmail dot com.
UPDATE :
If you get an error which says “The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click OK to terminate the application”, you need to reinstall the Dot Net Framework. The link can be found here.
UPDATE :
Next release would be available on the 5th February, 2007.
UPDATE :
As of today, Pandora Smuggler has crossed a 100 downloads. (Sourceforge)
[There were 1537 during the last two hours]
UPDATE :
In case you are using Internet Explorer 7, could you please comment if the Downloader is running fine or not. There might be an issue with Internet Explorer 7. I need your response to confirm the same. Thanks.
UPDATE :
The problem was not with the browser version, but due to Pandora fixing the problem. We are working on a new solution. And it should be up by the weekend.
UPDATE:
Pandora is dying…. (Link)
UPDATE:
Here is a new way to hear Pandora.com again if you are outside the US..
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“No data available yet. Please run Pandora.com in Internet Explorer”
error message that came about after i cleared cookies and temp internet files through internet options… at first it did work perfectly. great program, crappy error
Sorry for the problem.
But you would need to start Pandora.com in Internet explorer, so that the program can start collecting data.
Removing the temporary Internet files removes the files, where it gets it’s information from.
In the next version, I would add *great* errors too
Hi there,
it seems that your link is down ? Even with the r in Pandoarules it does not work :
http://stonekmonk.110mb.com/Downloads/PandoaRules.rar
Thanks !
Thanks for the info. I don’t really know what’s wrong.
I have updated the link to point to sourceforge.
Try http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=187639
I’ve added you to my list of Pandora Mashups
Thanks
Just a few suggestions, really just improvements, I really like this program.
1.) Ability to minimize
2.) Once I download a song in the list, can the row change color?
3.) When I refresh for some reason the songs seem to be in a random order. Actually it seems you always add the new songs in order on top, which means they are weirdly out of order in the list.
Thanks again!
Thanks anonymous, planning to come out with those in the next release.
I would suggest adding the ability to move and minimize the Pandora Downloader window.
Also, perhaps I’m missing something, but is there no sort capability? Clicking the headers does nothing, and there is no chronological order to the track listing as far as I can tell. The song that just played, for example, is randomly located about 12 from the bottom of the list.
Improving the GUI and sort capability would make this even better than it already is. (Well, that and FF, but you’re working on that.
Thanks Daniel. Do check out the next release.
I keep getting the “no data yet” as well. I have triple checked my steps, but nothing?
Any other IE settings to check?
Hi Anonymous.
If you are not getting any data yet. You could do the following.
1. Run ‘http://pandora.com‘ in Internet Explorer.
2. If you still don’t get anything, you could remove your Temporary Internet Files, and then restart Pandora.com in Internet Explorer.
Hope that helps.
Where on earth does it download the music to?
mixterr : the songs get downloaded to c:/pandora
I can not get this to work. I am using IE6. I have .NET framework 2. I have cleared my cache and temporary internet files. I have restarted IE and the downloader multiple times; and still, “No data available yet. Please run Pandora.com in Internet Explorer”.
I don’t know what to do.
“No data available yet. Please run Pandora.com in Internet Explorer”
Is all I get. Clearing IE stuuf an restarting doesn’t help.
Mr Interweb & ben :
Please drop me a mail on the mail id given on the application, and we’ll try to figure out something.
Doesn’t work for me either.
Does it require an english file structure like …\Application Data\… instead of …\Programdata\… (which I have in my norwegian xp) ?
“Downloading and running the Pandora Downloader should be the easiest thing you would have ever done on the internet.”
Only if easy = 10 steps of:
1. Download the .NET Framework from the microsoft site ( Link : Dot Net Framework 2.0 )
2. Download the PandoraDownloader binary ( Link : Pandora Downloader 1.0 )
3. Extract the binary using WinRar ( Link : WinRar 3.70 Beta 2 )
4. Start Internet Explorer
5. Go to site http://www.pandora.com and start the online radio. ( Starts automatically )
6. The songs which can be downloaded should not be visible. If they are not visible, press the Refresh button.
7. When you are able to view the songs, select the ones you would like to download and click Download
8. To view or play the downloaded songs, open Windows Explorer and go to address “C:\Pandora”.
9. Enjoy your music, even when you are not online.
10. After you are done, to close the application, click Close
Oh boy you weren’t kidding that is so much easier than the link clicking I have been doing for years…
All those steps make it seemed like it still needs some compiling.
I’m also getting the “no data available… run pandora.com in Internet Explorer” error. I’ve cleared my temp internet files (and cookies and history for good measure) and re-started IE and still no data.
I am using IE7 – could this be the issue?
Are you planning the firefox version for the Feb 5th release?
When I first installed … everything was excellent. Passed the link onto several friends.
Then, it stopped showing new songs, and refresh didn’t cause them to be visible.
Next, I tried restarting the browser and Pandora Downloader. Didn’t fix the issue.
Finally, tried to clear the IE browser cache, cookies, temp files, etc and restart both IE and Downloader.
Now it gives me “No data available yet. Please run Pandora.com in Internet Explorer”
I am. Have tried starting IE and going to Pandora.com before starting Downloader, and also tried starting Downloader before starting IE and going to Pandora.com.
Not sure the problem here. As I said, it worked great right after install but then seemed to … well … break.
Hi guys, I’m sorry took me some time to look at what is going wrong. I don’t think I have a permanent solution, but probably Leah is right that the issue is with Internet Explorer 7.
I’ve had 13 different people confirm that.
There is no way that I can test it right now. It’s 3 am here
Leah : Yes I plan to include support for Firefox in the next release
Anonymous : Could you confirm if you are using IE 7 too?
I’m using IE 7
Thanks for all your hard work!
When using IE 7 and I get the same “No data available yet. Please run Pandora.com in Internet Explorer” error.
I prefer FF anyway. Waiting for Feb 5th or later is no big deal.
Many thanks!
I am getting the “No data available yet. Please run Pandora.com in Internet Explorer” and using IE7. Does your Version of flash matter? I know with Pandora’s Jar you cannot use Flash 9.
I’m also getting the “no data available… run pandora.com in Internet Explorer” error.
I am using IE 7.
Make that 14…. I have IE7 on my system (even though I would rather put lit matches under my toenails than use it) and it doesn’t work for me….
Roll on the fix or Firefox support!
Great Job…. you are gonna be busy as this is something many people have been waiting for
Good Luck
Hi people, there seems to be a problem with Internet Explorer 7.
I would try to test it tomorrow morning. And I would try to put up some solution by tomorrow night.
“No data …” on IE6.
I’m going through a proxy, will that matter?
leah : Thanks a lot for the hint.
matt : Could you confirm you are also using Internet Explorer 7?
ben : I think you would have to wait a little longer.
anonymous : Thanks for the response.
anonymous : No the version of flash does not make a difference.
anonymous : Thanks for the response.
martyn : Great. Hope you like the next one
“no data”
Man I hate to burst the bubble here, but I have IE6 and the same problem described above.
The list just stopped refreshing, and then after a clean of cookies and temp files in IE, I get the no data even when Pandora is open.
So its not just IE7 thats having the problem.
Brendan
Also running IE7. (And like Martyn, I’d rather scrape my face off on a brick wall…but I have to have it at work.)
Like other commentors, I’m getting the “No data available” message, even though I’m running Pandora.com in IE6.
So I had a couple of questions:
1. You mention do download the binary files, I downloaded the .exe, is that the same thing?
2. I also tried downloading the source files (.cs) and exctracted them using WinRAR per your directions. But then what? I just get three source files. Do I need to compile them locally?
This could potentially be a great thing, but am I missing something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I’m also being told to run pandora.com, while using IE6.
-Kyzen
my problem is that i downloaded pandora downloader today and it worked like a little dream. BUT then the page did not refresh and if closed it always came back with the list of the first “20 or so” songs it had found and would not update any further despite my Pandora account being reloaded. Not much more than that. If you can refresh / rebuild the list of songs that would be “wunderschön”. if you could minimise the gui window or even move it about the desktop that would also be useful. BUT a super start and I can also wait.
I keep getting the “no data yet” IE6. Am I suppose to to do something with the PandoraSmuggler.Designer.cs, Program.cs,PandoraSmuggler.cs files. What does extract the binary files mean? I Extract the binary and the files came out like that, then I downloaded the .exe file and ran that, but that didnt help.
my problem is that i downloaded pandora downloader today and it worked like a little dream. BUT then the page did not refresh and if closed it always came back with the list of the first “20 or so” songs it had found and would not update any further despite my Pandora account being reloaded. Not much more than that. If you can refresh / rebuild the list of songs that would be “wunderschön”. if you could minimise the gui window or even move it about the desktop that would also be useful. BUT a super start and I can also wait.
[i]Anonymous : Could you confirm if you are using IE 7 too?[/i]
Yes, I’m using IE 7.
Edorf, who posted anonymously at 2:57 am.
I tried downloading the source and it’s missing PandoraSmuggler.Properties
It is not possible to download the songs anymore using this software.
It seems Pandora.com has fixed the problem.
Please check the top of the page for comments.
I am using IE7.
Just to note again: it was working under IE7 … and using IETab plugin in Firefox.
It suddenly stopped updating the songs after about 30 or so.
I cleared IE cache, cookies, temp files, etc; restarted both IE and Downloader and started getting the error message.
I’m assuming that Pandora.com may have blocked the port being used to access the files – especially if there was heavy traffic coming in as more people started using the Downloader.
No matt, they have stopped putting the xml in the temp files, so that the software cannot find out where to connect.
The port number was always the same as http.
Ofcourse, I could rip it right off the NIC card, but that would take some more time.
I’m using IE6 but I still get the no data error.
I hate IE anyway… I’ll check back for the Firefox update.
May be this might help as a starting point for your next week adventure of
Pandora Hacks;)
http://www.mrbrdo.net/pandora/
and my 2 cents:
What i get from pandora is that they are not using flash as a interface only but also communicating the server to get xml on request like the xml to virtual machine code generator for virtual interfaces
please check
http://www.openlaszlo.org
keep up the good work;)
“a ‘hacker’ is any person who derives joy from discovering ways to circumvent limitations”
I am getting the same error as the ie7 people. Only I am using ie6. I may have .net 3 installed, could that be an issue? This looks like a cool app I would use, so please fix it. The FF thing will be better anyway. Microsoft sucks FTW!
The problem was not with the browser version, but due to Pandora fixing the problem. We are working on a new solution. And it should be up by the weekend.
It’s not limited to IE7. I’m having the same issues as several other. “no data”
There must be something else. Perhaps the FF release will work? I’m willing to test a beta if you like.
Use This pandoras jar + This Greasemonkey script
Both still work fine.