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2Sep/111

Download Pandora songs with Safari

The safari activity window is something else. I've seen this hack done with youtube videos, and I'm sure it can be used on other sites that download the complete content in the background rather than true streaming. I noticed the other day that if you start playing a song with Pandora and disconnect the network cable or turn off the wifi that the song will continue to play to the end. So I popped open Pandora in Safari, on the Mac of course, and clicked on Window and chose Activity to open the Activity viewer. There will be a lot of noise in the viewer, because it shows everything being downloaded by Safari, the best thing to look for is the biggest file, the songs on Pandora seem to start with http://audio-ash... Once you locate the file, double click it, the file will open and download to your downloads directory. You can click to open the file in finder and click the file and rename it to something.mp4 - Now the file is on your computer and you should be able to double click it and play it. You should be able to play the file in iTunes or quicktime, it's not real high quality but it sounds pretty good..

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  1. So I popped open Pandora in Safari, on the Mac of course, and clicked on Window and chose Activity to open the Activity viewer. There will be a lot of noise in the viewer, because it shows everything being downloaded by Safari, the best thing to look for is the biggest file, the songs on Pandora seem to start

    At first I was having problems with this step but I was able to get it going.

    Thanks


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