[Pandora,] the veteran online radio provider said Thursday it will let listeners can[sic] skip more songs and replay tracks if they watch an extra ad. For $5 a month, paid members get those perks without any commercials plus a mode for listening offline, in a revamped subscription called Pandora Plus.
The announcement marks the most substantive change to Pandora's service in years by giving its listeners more control. It's also a step toward the kind of on-demand subscription music service popularized by newer rivals like Spotify and Apple Music.
There's also a github-hosted, command-line-based tool called pianobar that lets you skip all Pandora ads for free.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @02:22AM
$0
No subscription needed.
Infinite skips.
One audio ad per day.
Jango audio files have persistent URLs with no obfuscation, very easy to download.
Jango API is trivial HTTP + cookies, specific songs are very easy to request.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @02:27AM
http://www.jango.com/music/The+Chainsmokers/Closer [jango.com]
http://cd09.64.aac.jango.com/20/30/53/2030530413491565092.m4a [jango.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @02:33AM
http://www.jango.com/music/Bikini+Kill/Suck+My+Left+One [jango.com]
http://cd09.128.music.static.jango.com/music/01/98/72/0198724708.mp3 [jango.com]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday September 16 2016, @03:46AM
It also appears to work correctly with only 1st party scripts enabled.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @04:09AM
Using only HTTP GET. No scripts needed. Cookies must be enabled.
Step 1 : GET artist + title [ to tune station to track ] (ignore the output)
view-source:http://www.jango.com/music/The+Chainsmokers/Closer [view-source]
Step 2 : GET artist [ to select station ] (ignore the output)
view-source:http://www.jango.com/music/The+Chainsmokers [view-source]
Step 3 : GET stream [ to play station ] (JSON output)
http://www.jango.com/streams/info [jango.com]
The first thing in the JSON output is a link to your music.
Step 1 is optional. Step 2 is mandatory. Repeat Step 3 to skip to next track on station.
Plain ordinary HTML song title search form located at http://www.jango.com/artists/search [jango.com]