tiny_sparks

Nothing's stopping you from doing so. :D By all means, if you can make something simpler than this (which I think needs to be done on some levels) that actually WORKS, you could convert me. The thing about P.J. is that it does have some nifty features that a simpler program wouldn't have. It has the cruise control function so that you don't have to watch the computer and manually grab a song each time, it does a complete ID3 tagging and also automatically sorts the songs into their own folders based on the artist and album, and it also brings up the cover art, if you're someone who enjoys it. Another thing is that there are simply no other Pandora music-grabbers out there that I know of (I heard 3tunes is gone?), and unlike yourself, most do not know how to code and/or are too lazy to do anything about it. Third of all...you know how some people like to pimp their cars...spinner wheels, decals, wings, etc.? It's like that, but geek-style. Call it a cooperative battle to make this program shinier. :)

Damn, I'm out of the loop I guess...had NO idea about the 19-digit files. Thanks Angela and t3chn0b0y, I will look out for those files now. :) I am still kind of confused though. I stay in one station ALL the time. Anyway, here's what I found in my debug: INFO Thread-2 servlet.ProcessAction - handling mp3 request INFO Thread-2 servlet.ProcessAction - Finding current mp3 INFO Thread-2 util.Mp3Processor - locating mp3 WARN Thread-2 properties.DefaultProperties - Unable to load tmp mp3 retry count property. DEBUG Thread-2 util.Mp3Processor - ***processing directory: Temp*** DEBUG Thread-2 util.Mp3Processor - mp3 found adding currentFile: plugtmp-1 DEBUG Thread-2 util.Mp3Processor - ***processing directory: plugtmp*** DEBUG Thread-2 util.Mp3Processor - file v7 is not an mp3 DEBUG Thread-2 util.Mp3Processor - recent non mp3 file found: v7 - will continue to next file DEBUG Thread-2 util.Mp3Processor - file tuner_7_2_0_2_pandora.swf is not an mp3 DEBUG Thread-2 util.Mp3Processor - recent non mp3 file found: tuner_7_2_0_2_pandora.swf - will continue to next file DEBUG Thread-2 util.Mp3Processor - no more mp3 found in dir The debug continues on and on through my entire TEMP directory, and in the end states that it couldn't find anything. Well, if you look at what I bolded, it certainly FOUND my file, but it kept going anyway. I'm going to look through the source code tonight and see if maybe there's a missing if statement that is supposed to stop the search once it finds the file? I'm probably totally off-base here...haven't coded with Java in like 4 months but we'll see.

I found something kind of interesting. If any of you were saving Pandora songs pre-P.J., you probably remember how you had to manually go into your TEMP directory and get the "access" files from the "plugtmp" folder. And, well, if you weren't doing that, now you know how we did it old-school. :) Anyway, I was looking through the Java source code, and true to form, P.J. does basically the same thing...looks for the "access" files for you in the TEMP directory. So I thought I'd go back and try it old-school style again. I put on Pandora, went into my TEMP folder (Start --> Run --> %TEMP%), and opened up the good ol' "plugtmp" folder. ...And I found absolutely NO "access" files. NOTHING was in there besides the shockwave file tuner_7_2_0_2_pandora.swf, and an unknown file named v7. Beforehand, I would actually stare at my plugtmp folder and watch as "access-1," "access-2," etc. gradually increased in size as it downloaded. This wasn't happening this time, and Pandora was definitely on. Something is terribly amiss. Pandora isn't saving its files in plugtmp anymore. They might not even be called "access-#" anymore. I did a quick search for any files named "access" in the TEMP directory while Pandora was playing, and found nothing. Help?!

AHHHH! Okay, BIG breakthrough for me. For those of you who are having problems with Firefox prompting you to install the Flash 9 plugin, first make sure that after downloading the Flash Player 8 archive bundle, you are installing flashplayer8r22/24_win and NOT flashplayer8r22/24_winax. The ax version is for Internet Explorer (ax standing for Active X), while the non-Active X version is meant for Netscape (and subsequently, Firefox). Otherwise, if you installed the ax version, Firefox WILL NOT recognize it. And if that doesn't shut Firefox up, go into your plugins directory (usually C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxplugins) and delete the file npnul32.dll, otherwise known as the Default Plugin. Doing one or both of the above should force Firefox to accept Flash 8. That being said, I'm still trying to get mine to work....