Posted by tim in It wouldn't fit in any other category... on May 24, 2009

I got bored with the template the site was using and decided to re-introduce the old "Ice Flame" template. Please leave comments and let me know what you think.

Posted by tim in It wouldn't fit in any other category... on May 24, 2009

Sure, it's possible. I risk getting in some sort of trouble for posting this on the internet, but I would like to point out that at no time did I dismantle any of the products used in this process to achieve the final goal. This was discovered totally by accident, and may already be public knowledge.

One night I was sitting at my computer, trying to debug some jQuery interfaces I was writing. For this, I was watching the network console in the Firebug extension for Firefox, making sure that my $.getJSON() calls were working properly. Somehow, I managed to pull up the network console for the tab where I had my pandora.com station playing, and I noticed where it was retrieving media from audio-sjl-a-1.pandora.com. Poking at it a little bit, I found that the files being retrieved were simple .flv files, with the audio embedded in them. Easy enough, I used ffmpeg to extract the audio stream and save it as an mp3, and there I had local copies of those songs that I can find nowhere other than pandora.com!

The information I gave you above should be sufficient for you to figure it out on your own. I don't endorse doing so though, because stealing is just wrong.

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