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a quick note re: embedded album art - I've had some continued difficulty getting art to display on win mobile players (tcpmp, s2p, microfi-nitrogen, mortplayer). After much confusion I resolved the issue. I'm not intimately familiar with embedded album art conventions so I'm not certain exactly what tags are involved here, but using mp3tag program, selecting 'set cover description' and changing this from 'cover.jpg' to anything not containing a '.' (ie just "cover") fixes the issue and art now displays fine in all the above mentioned players. If it isn't particularly difficult some folks might appreciate this, apparently more compatible, naming convention being used by default. Particularly as I've not found any way of changing 'cover description' save one file at a time in mp3tag. Hopefully this info can save others a bit of a headache...

I'm very happy to mail a donation - but wouldn't (lacking a PO Box or similar for such purposes) expect you to share an address over the net! Particularly for what would (sadly, given my finances) be somewhat less than a Benjamin. Unfortunately, I've never warmed to the idea of placing identifiable data on the internet. It would be nice if PayPal would develop some sort of prepaid accounts - a way to make an anonymous account to which funds could be mailed or wired then sent out via paypal. In small $ amounts I'm not sure what harm could be done allowing folks to anonymously SEND money to paypal. Similar to how anyone can make a deposit INTO a bank account. Meh In anycase, you've saved me a bundle making it possible to take my pandora radio experience to my mobile w/out tithing monthly to Sprint for a data plan I don't otherwise need. I certainly owe tremendous thanks. Again... excellent, excellent work.

Above and Beyond! Thanks ZZJ. Seems to be working exactly as described. This really is a fantastic piece of kit - I just discovered that the 'Shuffle' toggle switches between stations! (activates quickmix?) This made it possible for me to grab all the 'thumbs up" songs from my 35 odd stations in just a few overnight turbo sessions. Freaking fantastic. Anyway I can donate cash? Not a huge fan of PayPal...

Interesting - makes perfect sense. I wonder why Pandora maintains the 128 mp3 versions - the server has to be expecting their flash player which handles aac-sbr and it's significantly less bandwidth to send the mp4s. Is it legacy support for one of the mobile clients or something? -- not that it matters... One other quick question: Saver is embedding album art (fantastic!) as PNG. Unfortunately my mobile player (TCPMP) only supports album art as jpg. Is this just down to Pandora using png (they certainly used jpg at one time) or is there a setting somewhere I can adjust? Thanks again for this excellent effort, and for answering my questions.

General apologies as I'm certain this has been covered, but 40 pages is a lot to skim through and search did not help me. When using firefox portable, Saver produces 64k aac files / using the pandora client, 128k mp3 (lame) I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that Pandora itself is serving the same files as what's running on my machine should be transparent to them. Can you explain (in layman's terms) what causes the disparity? Is some conversion taking place, or is my local machine re-encoding a stream as it plays? I would simply like my glaring ignorance to be assuaged... and to know the best setup to avoid generational loses if applicable.

+1 -- see my post in the Main thread for details... but it's the same problem.

Tivicus, you must have posted this even as I was attempting to troubleshoot the same problem on my own installation. Unfortunately I don't have a solution for you (or myself). Symptoms are the same on mine (8.1.1 Standalone -- firefox portable) as yours. I cannot save the first song that plays, receiving the "unable to rip mp3 unable to find file make sure..." error. I can save any song thereafter, however it always saves the previous song instead of the one I request, tagging it with the filename/id3 tags from the current song. I have noticed that pandora is caching the first song played as a file with a long numerical name in the directory *user temp folder*\plugtmp The second song is cached directly to the temp folder (no subdirectory) as a file named "plugtmp-1" Following songs are also cached directly into the temp folder with sequential naming plugtmp-2 | plugtmp-3 | etc. except that occasionally (perhaps at regular intervals) one will be cached into \plugtmp with another lengthy numerical name. Of-course I never bothered to observe caching behavior back when Pandora's Jar was working so this might be what it has done all along. The fact that the first song is cached differently from the following ones seems awfully suspicious though considering the nature of the problems I'm having (PJ being "out of sync" by one song). Hopefully some of this is helpful information. I await advise from those smarter than I...