[unable to rip mp3 null/unable to locate artist and song info]

hiwatt99 has posted a makeshift hack of the jar that saves the mp3s named as the date and time to get around the error with tagging the mp3s - for me this worked, so the problem saving mp3s for me was the tagging.

His post/hack is here: http://www.hak5.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t...sc&start=15

[New version of Pandora?]

I suspect one or more of the strings in Constants.java need to be updated, but I don't know how the original author sussed out these values in the first place.

public static final String PARAM_ARTIST = "artist";

public static final String PARAM_ALBUM = "album";

public static final String PARAM_GENRE = "genre";

public static final String PARAM_COMMENT = "comment";

public static final String PARAM_YEAR = "year";

public static final String PARAM_TITLE = "title";

etc.

--h

I posted a new thread in this forum about my error with pandora's jar having an "unable to locate artista and song information" problem. If this is the same problem you're having then I'm inclined to agree with you - and maybe those string names are the problem.

[unable to rip mp3 null/unable to locate artist and song info]

I know that this has been addressed in the main thread, but none of the solutions I have seen work so far.

The JAR window shows something like this:

localhost connected to server.

localhost connected to server.

localhost connected to server.

unable to rip MP3 null

And on the firefox window under the "grab this track" button the top field displays "unable to locate artist and song info."

I haven't been able to rip a single mp3 yet, I've tried using pandora versions 7.3 and 7.3.1. I've also tried using that different version of pandora.jar that someone posted in the main thread, and none of these things work.

To cover the basic questions you'll ask:

Yes I have completely uninstalled flash 9.

Yes I have installed flash 8.

Yes I have the newest JRE.

So, I'm not sure what exactly could be going wrong, and I've never coded in java so I'm kind of out of my league in all of this. I've tried manually controlling it, using cruise control, and I'm not even sure if the "unable to locate artist and song information" thing is related to the mp3 ripping error, but something is off.

Is anyone else having this problem? Does any have a solution or even an idea?