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I suppose WinE under Linux is equivalent to VMWare under Windows: http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?topic=7549.0

Of course, i prefer to have the .MP3 tags myself since that's essential for a better exploration of Pandora's continuous musical entertainment; maybe there could be multiple levels of functionality to this project: i'd rather choose the option to time-shift something than nothing at all. Somebody has mentioned slacker-dot-com recently and radioblogclub.com already got its FireFox add-on, the modular approach might help to gather supplementary resources to replace Last.FM and/or CDDB when they fail... So, far from having a definite position i actually welcome feed-back! :-)

I wonder, wouldn't it be good enough if we just captured the files with their meaningless alphanumeric names and no .MP3 tagging at all? After all, who's looking at their player's display every three minutes or so just to learn a title and a name? Perhaps we should try to break this problem into small chunks: phase one would be about raw capture, phase two would be optional and attempt to match the cover picture with its song while phase three pushes identification to full completion but using ressources external to Pandora... If Pandora is satisfied that most people will settle for raw time-shifting then this project might become somewhat more viable, who knows? Being a minority among a minority should make the phase three guys negligeable.

I'll be around.

Where do you get that message from, Flash Switcher (a FireFox PlugIn)?

No quick answers here, the gurus are gone.

Hummm... ...«only available in the United States», again... :-(

I think the word "masquerade" was used about modifying a file to make it look like v8 was in fact a v9... You can try to patch the Flash Player binary driver instead, i believe it worked under Linux.

I thought the songs were transfered twice, in a "push-pull" fashion so to speak...

I appreciate the effort, i'll most certainly give it a try when it's ready - as you can imagine! :D

I've done all i could, which was to set the scene for a Linux fix but no luck here neither. I guess i'm sharing some of your loneliness...

I can define the TMP & TEMP variables under Linux but still no joy.

Hi, The 'Program Files' trick is a bright way to verify that there are hard-coded file paths (Pandora's Jar isn't fully functional under Linux), i guess it's expecting to find a drive 'C:' as well so now i may have a clue why the [Grab] button fails with Slax Live CDs!

Heavy speakers may appear to be fused to the building's structure because of weight, some people add bricks to "feel" the music (and pester their neighbours) so the opposite might help here it that applies: uncouple the speakers from the floor, walls, whatever...

I think you'll need to execute the v8.1 .EXE self-installer on a Windows system, then you can archive it using an OS X compatible format, i guess. The .sh script file is written for OS X, after all; maybe it will work including the [grab] button?

You got mail!

Oh, i forgot to tell you: FireFox is in French by default but English is available from the "Outils/Langues" menu item. FlashBlock is another default option so that's why you must click on the three FlashBlock icons during Pandora's web page loading. I'm sure you'll figure out the rest, just look at the animation... :-)

Hi, i removed the link because there was zero feedback. Check your personal messages on this board, i'm posting you the link there...

Hi Charakter_Baby, I got TOR working with a large pool of USA proxies and Pandora's Jar proxy on top of TOR. A pair of Flash Player binaries are installed in FireFox and i had started testing two more which are patched to disguise their real version, etc., but i still can't use the grab button at the end of the day: i can only listen and copy music files manually from the temporary directory. I've based my late efforts on Pandora's Jar v8.1 but there was no joy yet... This is a Linux Live CD module and no one seems ready to take over, even if everything else has been settled anyway. All i can offer is a CD that boots Linux and lets you listen to Pandora; well, ony the Slax module, actually - but it's a piece of cake to add to some regular Slax/NimbleX .ISO image file before you burn it. 8-) Over 250 reads later you'd be the 1st to ask about it, even if i made it fully bilingual since august:

I have two questions: 1) Are you a Windows user? 2) Do you need the "Grab" button to work?

Pandora Jam won't be of help here: it's for Mac OS X v10.4, it's not free and there's no source code...

So, how is it going about the temporary folder thing?

Hi, I had a thought which woke me up: it should be possible to define variables from what's written in a text unless they're already set. Lets suppose TMP and/or TEMP are pre-defined, there's no need to read the configuration file unless a switch specifically requires Pandora's Jar to do so, though if both are absent then there's no other choice but to read the configuration file to find some value.

Hi, Thanks for your support! I'd like to help, i sort of wonder what happens if 'NPSWF32.dll' is patched, for example at location #191DB8)h for the version found in the 'chromeplugins9.0 r45NPSWF32.dll' file of 'Flash Switcher v1.0.0' (2115816 Bytes and dated 2007-Mar-28 1:04)... It would look like this using hexadecimal edition tools ('XVi32', whatever): [tt]191DB0 50 6C 75 67 49 6E 00 00 57 49 4E 20 39 2C 30 2C PlugIn WIN 9,0, 191DC0 34 35 2C 30 00 00 00 00 41 3D 25 62 26 53 41 3D 45,0 A=%b&SA=[/tt] The Linux version is slightly different, of course: [tt]5D53E0 72 65 6E 74 00 5F 66 6C 61 73 68 00 4C 4E 58 20 rent _flash LNX 5D53F0 39 2C 30 2C 34 38 2C 30 00 2E 73 63 72 6F 6C 6C 9,0,48,0 .scroll[/tt] Hummm... But i guess those are digitally signed...

Hi, I never seen references to the Slax/NimbleX file structure in that file and it appears i found why: despite all my efforts to adapt the .sh script for OS X, it turns out my TMP and TEMP environment variables are short lived and vanish once i close the console window where i tried to define them. I couldn't find a way to start Pandora's Jar then FireFox from the same script so that means there is no TMP/TEMP environment variable for FireFox and the suite to be found - but i'll work on it. Perhaps it would help if we could define the temporary path manually; the FireFox cache path is something else because it keeps changing all the time from one session to the next so this should be done using JAVA/JavaScript launched after FireFox is loaded, i suppose. Oh, by the way... Can you suggest tools to edit the Flash Switcher add-on and attempt to make it work with my Linux Live CD setup? Everything including bilingual support is OKay if we except the Grab button of Pandora's Jar and Flash Switcher - i'd also like support for both Flash Player v7 & v9, or even better, three+: v7, v9, v7 disguised as v9 plus maybe vice-versa! If i must, i'll patch the .so binaries by editing the "LNX" strings as it may remove the need to edit 'pluginreg.dat'...