How to: access Pandora from outside the US
I’m not an avid Pandora user. Personally, I like Last.FM better. But it angers me when I see that such a great service will now be unavailable for users outside of the US. TechCrunch has the details, as well as a facsimile of the letter sent to Pandora’s international users.
Of course, I don’t blame Pandora for this: they’re just complying with the US (and international) laws and regulations.
I blame the laws and regulations.
In any case, this is the Internet, and it’s easy to be a hacker nowadays, so here’s a couple of services you can use to access Pandora from wherever you are (btw, Pandora still works for me although I’m from Croatia; I guess they haven’t covered all the IP ranges just yet):
1. Firefox + anonymous proxy - in Firefox, open Tools - Options - Advanced - Network - Settings. There you have the proxy options. Go to one of these sites:
http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/
http://www.publicproxyservers.com/
http://www.proxz.com/
http://www.stayinvisible.com/
Find some proxies there, enter their details into the proxy options in Firefox. Don’t worry if the first couple of proxies don’t work; it’s a trial and error process.
2. Public CGI Proxies - the easiest method. Randomly chooses a public proxy server; all you have to do is enter the Pandora.com address and enjoy the melodies.
3. Tor and Privoxy - these two are frequently used together to surf anonymously. Might be a bit complicated for beginners.
4. Metropipe - a set of commercial and free tools for anonymous surfing, including a free Firefox toolbar. Starts at $8.33.
5. Proxify - just enter Pandora.com, uncheck remove all scripts, and you’re good to go. Well, in theory; it didn’t work for me; might be just a temporary glitch.
6. The Cloak - same as Proxify, enter the address and surf anonymously right away. And, just like Proxify, it doesn’t work. Again, maybe it starts working somewhere in the future; you never know with services like this.
7. Cotse - another commercial service, starts at $5.95. Covers much more than just anonymous surfing, though.
8. Anonymizer - another commercial anonymizing package, a bit more expensive.
This should be enough for most users. Enjoy Pandora, wherever you are (;.
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May 3rd, 2007 at 8:34 am
good advise
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:40 pm
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May 3rd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
or you could just make up a US zip like I did.. I never had any problems.
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:58 pm
How to: access Pandora from outside the US…
This is the Internet, and it’s easy to be a hacker nowadays, so here’s a couple of services you can use to access Pandora from wherever you are.read more | digg story…
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:59 pm
@Angus: that worked before. Now it won’t work for many because Pandora has introduced IP filtering.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Proxies are definately the way to go.
May 4th, 2007 at 1:48 am
wow… thank you captain obvious…
May 4th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Como acceder a pandora desde fuera de USA…
Bueno como todos sabéis pandora a partir del dÃa 3 está bloqueado desde fuera de USA, bueno pues aquà tenéis un pequeño truco para acceder desde fuera de USA. F*CK RIAA! F*CK SGAE. Perdón, tenÃa que desahogarme……
May 4th, 2007 at 1:58 am
cool tips, thanks stan.
of course when you’re outside the US like we are, proxies rule!
May 4th, 2007 at 2:25 am
accessing pandora from a proxy can slow it down. proxies are slow.
May 4th, 2007 at 2:35 am
[…] Ayer practicamente lloré por la horrible noticia de que Pandora no estará mas disponible para usuarios fuera de Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido. Aunque como siempre nuestros hermosos lectores tienen una solución para todo, a continuacion un tutorial muy bien explicado de todos los pasos que hay que seguir para escuchar Pandora desde cualquier pais fuera de los Estados Unidos. […]
May 4th, 2007 at 2:36 am
Proxy is a good way but as Angus says make up a US zip code, or better still copy a real one
http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm
I prefer to use
http://www.finetune.com/
create your own playlist from a bigger choice, and even get free the desktop player
comparco
May 4th, 2007 at 2:41 am
http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/
May 4th, 2007 at 2:48 am
Cool
Proxify works for me
Thanks
May 4th, 2007 at 3:15 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Shame Pandora will be shutting down completely in a couple months when the RIAA’s increased licensing fees go in effect. Pandora has stated publicly they won’t be able to afford it and will have to close.
May 4th, 2007 at 3:55 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 4:15 am
None of those links work for me because I’m in Qatar which censors the internet and doesn’t allow connection to any websites which contain details of proxies. If anyone could post some actual proxy addresses instead of just links to websites that have proxy addresses then that would be great.
May 4th, 2007 at 4:17 am
So the bottomline is use US proxy.
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May 4th, 2007 at 4:44 am
Yeah so the post code.. sorry “ZIP” code thing used to work. I’ve been signed up with the code for Wayne, Wisconsin for a looong time now.
But that will no longer work if you’re IP is outside the range of approved USA IP’s
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/483784791_ebf0d1c6a0_o.jpg
(and you can go to town on that IP if you like, it’s just the transparent proxy my ISP uses)
I tried accessing Pandora thru my paid proxy account with Megaproxy but lack of Java support put an end to that. Will try some of the other’s listed above.
May 4th, 2007 at 4:44 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 4:47 am
These solutions won’t work most of the time, because these “open” proxy servers are all (black)-listed, and Pandora having done things “properly” intercepts these connexions.
However there are possible other solutions. One would be to install your own php-proxy (for ex: PHProxy) on a free US hosting with php… Any other ideas?
May 4th, 2007 at 5:01 am
my pandora replacement http://seeqpod.com
May 4th, 2007 at 5:02 am
@Anon Y Mouse: I’m sorry to hear that. The thing with proxy servers is that half of them don’t work, and many other are blacklisted. Sometimes you have to try out 20 or more before you hit one that works. That’s exactly why I didn’t want to get too technical in this post; it’s impossible to cover all possibilities for anyone. Even worse, I have no problems accessing any part of the Internet from Croatia, so it’s hard for me to test out things for people in your situation. I hope someone who has similar issues can help you.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:26 am
I am on pandora right now, and i am from Canada.. i have not been blocked out of it yet. I will listen to it all day and see what happens.
May 4th, 2007 at 5:45 am
Como conectar con Pandora desde fuera de EEUU…
Desde hace unos dÃas han limitado el acceso a Pandora, no permitiendo las conexiones desde fuera de Estados Unidos. Aquà te explican un método sencillo (aunque en ingles) para conectar a Pandora desde fuera de Estados Unidos….
May 4th, 2007 at 6:01 am
To the idiots saying ‘just type in a US zip code’ - the whole point is that this no longer works.
If you don;t know about something, don’t type it you cretins.
May 4th, 2007 at 6:26 am
The seeqpod thing is amazing!
Anyways, I’m in the UK and pandora still works. But I’m sure it’ll kick in soon.
May 4th, 2007 at 6:30 am
I use proxys.mobi
May 4th, 2007 at 6:38 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 6:39 am
I’m in Canada as well and Pandora worked earlier.
What does it look like if its supposed to be blocked?
May 4th, 2007 at 6:54 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 7:08 am
I’m in Canada and it’s working for me right now at work. Haven’t tried from home yet.
May 4th, 2007 at 7:10 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 7:11 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 7:24 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 8:05 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 8:26 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 8:27 am
Why would anybody outside the US want to access pandora when we have Last.fm which is so much better.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:31 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 8:33 am
I used the zip code of Wrigley Field. It worked for the Blues Brothers, so I felt it ought to work for me. I’m listening to Pandora from the UK at the moment, so they haven’t caught up with my IP address yet.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:38 am
@Andric: This is how Pandora looks like for ‘the rest of the world’ now.
@James2m: I tried Last.fm and it sound bumpy for me (Uruguay is far away from the UK, and even more in ‘Internet distance’). But anyways, that’s not the point (Unless, of course, they play more Monty Pythons songs than Pandora)
May 4th, 2007 at 8:45 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 9:13 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 9:38 am
I just entered a U.S. zip code when I signed up. Everything works great
May 4th, 2007 at 10:55 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 11:04 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 11:23 am
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May 4th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Anyone outside the US had luck with any of these techniques and the AOL in2tv service?
May 4th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
To the idiot who called us idiots for advising to use a US Zip code, I’ve had an account like this for the last twelve months, it still works, and, I’ve just this minute created another one, and guess what, it works, I’m listening to it as I type, Idiot!
May 4th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
while i agree there is no need for calling anyone an idiot,
fact remains that they use ip filters now.
That it still works for you is probably just a glitch (although i hear that they reenabled uk and canada).
May 4th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
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May 4th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
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May 4th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Anon Y Mouse in repressive country: I am also in Qatar and was very sad to click onto pandora yesterday to see the announcement. We have such limited access to good music (if I hear Smack That one more time…) and I really enjoyed pandora.
I’ll be sure to check out the proxy sites when I am back in the free world this summer but until then, I have signed up for Last.fm.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:27 am
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May 5th, 2007 at 1:19 am
@Stan Schroeder - thanks for your reply. Yes I’ve tested scores of proxies from here but they all fall down. The entire country is funnelled through a single ip connection (do you remember the story recently of the whole country being “banned” from wikipedia because some idiots had been vandalising pages they considered unislamic?) Anyway, it’s a pity as I was keen to check out Pandora before the proposed legislation potentially knocks ‘net radio off the air…
@GeekGirl, as I’m sure you’d agree, the djs in Qatar are horrendous, and the music just hideous. I’ve been on Last FM for a while, and yes it’s great. Also of course SomaFM for radio streaming. I was interested in the proxies more for a way to circumnavigate the general restrictions rather than just Pandora in particular, but will also be back in the free world myself come summer. Summer… phew it’s hot here already… will soon be 50º… Look me up on LFM - aljuk
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May 5th, 2007 at 6:02 am
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May 5th, 2007 at 6:14 am
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May 5th, 2007 at 10:48 am
As I listen to Pandora from Canada, news that it’s blocked here comes as a surprise.
May 5th, 2007 at 10:54 am
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May 5th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Streaming audio via Tor? You are kidding, right?
May 5th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Yes, I’m from Canada…I just used a U.S zip code, it’s that easy
May 5th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
@Anon Y Mouse: Have you tried the famous Proxy Anonymouse yet?
http://Anonymouse.org/
I can access Pandora with Anonymouse
May 5th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
For those of you outside the US but with access to a server in the USA may like to try this:
ServerName pandora.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /dev/null
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / http://www.pandora.com/
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.pandora.com/
ProxyPreserveHost On
May 5th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
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May 5th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
@Rob
Nice one! Yes, I’ve tried (to try) it, unfortunately it’s blocked from here…
May 6th, 2007 at 2:42 am
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May 6th, 2007 at 3:35 am
CGI proxy or regular proxy do not seem to work.
The flash loads but then it shows it cannot connect.
Anyone had any success with any of the proposed solutions?
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May 7th, 2007 at 12:50 am
Proxify and The Cloak did not work for me. I got an error in Pandora. Foxyproxy in FF and a random selected public proxy worked fine. I listen to Pandora via FF and surf with Opera.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:33 am
hi,
i am from austria and nothing on this list works for me..
the player opens, but there are “unexpected technical difficulties [..] please try later”
anyone from austria who worked it out?
May 7th, 2007 at 6:03 am
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May 7th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Seems like its impossible to use proxys or vpm or whatever.. does anyone got a solution which really works?! or some alternative site who offers same service?
May 7th, 2007 at 9:25 am
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May 7th, 2007 at 11:05 am
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May 7th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
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May 7th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
[…] Hace unos dÃas la RIAA, la SGAE de USA, obligó al sitio Pandora a no permitir el acceso desde ip’s fuera de los Estados Unidos. Sin embargo como siempre en este mundo conectado, tras unos pocos dÃas ha llegado la solución. VÃa Digg, he encontrado algunos métodos para poder acceder a Pandora desde fuera de USA. […]
May 7th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
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May 7th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
personalVPN from www.witopia.net works. u.s. ip address, plus encryption for 40 dollars for year subscription. plus, should be much faster than most proxies. Listening to Pandora right now with perfect quality and i’m encrypted, anonymous, and location hidden.
May 7th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
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May 7th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
[…] Regardless, via Wired, Frantic Industries has posted a list of proxy techniques you can use to fool Pandora into thinking you’re in the U.S. if you need to. The easiest way is to bookmark this URL; when you want to listen to Pandora, enter pandora.com into the box, and the service should work as before. […]
May 7th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
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May 8th, 2007 at 3:22 am
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May 8th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Some of the MySpace Unblocker sites, like http://www.myspace-unblocker.org, or other free web-based proxies might work as well - You might have to experiment with enabling/disabling different options though.
May 8th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Hi! I am from Moscow. And unfortunately I think this is the last place where Pandora comes again. But I love it!!
I have found list of american proxies:
http://proxy.mazafaka.ru/?c=US&t=e&m=3&checked=y
I change my browser settings and now Pandora lets me in. But in return now it always shows this:
We’re having unexpected technical difficulties.
Our engineers are scrambling to fix things.
Please try again later.
May 8th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
http://www.guardster.com/subscription/proxy_free.php
May 9th, 2007 at 5:23 am
[…] L’improvvisa decisione di Pandora, una delle radio on-line più visitate al mondo, di limitare l’accesso solo agli utenti residenti degli Usa ha fatto parlare molto la blogosfera, e già dopo poche ore si leggevano su alcuni blog i metodi per aggirare le restrizioni, gli stessi usati per eludere i comuni sistemi censori. […]
May 9th, 2007 at 6:35 am
[…] How to: Access Pandora from outside the US - [franticindustries.com] […]
May 9th, 2007 at 7:23 am
[…] Come accedere a Pandora fuori dagli USA Come già sapete Pandora, la giovane radio on-line statunitense, ha chiuso i battenti agli utenti che si connettono fuori dagli USA. Per ostruire il servizio al resto del mondo è stato applicato un filtro che vigila sugli indirizzi IP in modo da riservare l’accesso a chi risiede negli USA. Aggirare questo sistema è semplice, basta adottare i metodi utilizzati per eludere i comuni sistemi censori, qualcuno ha già pensato di scrivere un HowTo. […]
May 9th, 2007 at 7:39 am
searching for pandora…
pandora from outside the US….
May 9th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Both suggestions above suffer from Pandora somehow detecting use of proxy servers.
Error message with Guardster.com: “We are having unexpected technical difficulties…” - You all know the drill already… ;-(
Please validate your suggestions before submitting, or confirm it works and with what settings.
May 9th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
[…] More music links. All legal - as far as I can tell. musicmesh - a new way to discover music For those os you who play in a band, speak/read basic German, and want a chance to play on a festival: Here’s a contest for young artists. everyone can upload two mp3’s and participate in a voting; the winners enter the program and play on an Open Air Festival this summer. You can also listen and vote. Open Flair Bandcontest 2007 For the iTunes users among you (which I am none of, but I thought you might like this): barbarian software | magnetosphere And for information only, because I know some of you liked Pandora: How to: access Pandora from outside the US As the site doesn’t contain any protected material, just a tutorial as to how to… I can’t imagine there is a problem. If you’re not sure though, I will remove the link. Ah, linking is so much nicer on the updated boards! […]
May 10th, 2007 at 1:43 am
Byte Podcast # 89…
Byte Podcast # 89 - MP3
Edición especial recordando 10 años del inicio de Arroba en Radioactivo, el programa de radio predecesor de Byte Podcast. Entrevista con Jorge ShahÃn.
En noticias: la tipografÃa Helvética cumple 50 años, Apple México …
May 10th, 2007 at 5:01 am
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May 10th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
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May 11th, 2007 at 4:14 am
hi guys!
is this proxything also working for desktop applications? i want to use Zattoo (an IPTV-Player), which is only accessible from Switzerland and Denmark right now…
Could you help me out?
Thanks
Phil
May 11th, 2007 at 6:09 am
[…] FootnotesW3Schools claims 30 percent, Wikipedia says it’s only 15 percent, and according to my own stats it’s somewhere around 25 percent. [↩]Frantic Industries has a great post on “How to: access Pandora from outside the US“. [↩]I actually do use more extensions then the ones listed here. Right now I’m counting 49, of which 30 are enabled. I’m not going to list all of these here, but if you’re interested I’d be happy to add a list to the comments. [↩]Example: I took a look at what tv1 is broadcasting today and nearly 30 percent of what’s on are reruns. And most of what’s shown on the news was taken from earlier bulletins anyway. [↩] […]
May 11th, 2007 at 6:18 am
A web proxy basically just rewrites the url of the page, so it doesn’t work for a flash application.
You therefore need to use a http proxy, which you will have to install on a hosting solution in the US (for which you will have to pay). And 9/10 the hoster will cut the service since the proxy will have been scanned, detected and abused.
So basically, it’s a shit situation.
May 11th, 2007 at 6:24 am
[…] Il y a quelques mois de cela, dans la jungle des webradios avait surgi Pandora. Sobrement, mais mystérieusement sous-titré "Created by the Music Genome Project". Quid ? De la musique génétiquement modifiée à portée de souris ? Que nenni. Plutôt un bel exemple de ce que les technologies actuelles en matière de traitement de l’information sont capables de nous apporter au quotidien. Le principe est simple : des passionnés de musique (dont un certain Tim Westergren) ont un jour décidé d’identifier de façon précise et minutieuse les caractéristiques d’un morceau de musique : son style et son époque bien sûr, mais aussi le type de rythmique et les harmonies qui le composent, les instruments qui sont utilisés (synthétiques, acoustiques, voix, cordes, percussions…), son ambiance générale (est-il plutôt mou, festif, dansant…), ses origines (latin, nordique, nord-américain…) et certainement un millier d’autres caractères qui permettent de déterminer qu’entre un morceau de Cabrel et un de Brassens la différence ne se voit pas seulement à l’intonation mâle et moustachue d’un joueur de guitare…Ce principe étant posé, et des accords entre différents acteurs de l’industrie du disque étant établies, Pandora pouvait naître en tant que webradio d’un nouveau genre : allez sur http://www.pandora.com, saisissez le nom d’un morceau que vous considérez comme typique d’une musique que vous aimez et laissez-vous guider pour une écoute de découverte et d’émerveillements. En indiquant de temps en temps au système que le morceau qu’il vous propose vous plaît ou pas, vous allez affiner la pertinence de votre radio jusqu’à lui donner une couleur particulière. En étant vigilant dès le début, la possibilité de créer une radio uniquement basée sur un certain style musical est à la portée du premier aficionados venu. Pour ma part en 6 mois j’en ai créé près d’une dizaine, du Dub au Krautrock en passant par l’Ambient, le Jazz ou la Black-Music. Avec l’avantage de pouvoir écouter l’une, l’autre ou un mix de toutes ou partie. Le tout bien entendu sans pub, ni animateur énervant, gratuitement et à 128kbps. Bref le bonheur quoi ! Et pourtant j’avais essayé auparavant les Launch.com et autres LastFM. Pas une n’arrive à la cheville de la boîte de Pandore. C’est techniquement bluffant et d’une simplicité d’utilisation à toute épreuve.Mais… car oui je ne me fends pas aujourd’hui de ces quelques lignes juste pour encenser le modèle et faire de nouveaux émules (bien que j’eusse préféré…), mais aujourd’hui Pandora va fermer à l’écoute hors des frontières des États-Unis d’Amérique. Au départ d’ailleurs, les licences de diffusion qui leur ont permis de se monter ne leur permettaient déjà pas d’être écoutés ailleurs. Sauf que l’ouverture d’un compte ne demandant qu’un email et quelques informations non vérifiées ont permis à bon nombre de gens d’Europe, d’Asie ou d’ailleurs de profiter de cette manne sonore providentielle. Moi le premier. Mais maintenir de telles licences coûte cher et les étendre de façon trans-nationales encore plus. Et encore faut-il que les lois en vigueur dans chaque pays le permettent (en France, l’idée de Licence Globale aurait certainement permis d’aller dans leur sens). Aussi afin de ne pas définitivement plier boutique, et en attendant de pouvoir trouver les visas qui leur permettront de revenir nous aiguiser les tympas hors des terres de l’Oncle Sam, ont-ils décidé de resserrer la vis en analysant les adresses IP de connection de leurs auditeurs. C’est ainsi qu’ils ont appris que je les écoutais depuis la France, ainsi qu’un bon nombre de mes compatriotes. D’ici quelques jours (a priori le 3 mai ce sera fini) un filtre sera mis en place interdisant toute adresse non états-unienne de se brancher chez eux.Bien entendu, utiliser - par exemple - un proxy basé aux USA pour déjouer le contrôle technique est faisable, mais une fois de plus, en ces temps de globalisation et de voyages numériques transfrontaliers, de nouvelle barrières virtuelles s’érigent face à nous. Barrières qui contraignent chacun soit à se plier sans cesse aux nouvelles règles fluctuantes érigées par le marché soit à devenir des illégaux pour continuer à profiter de ce type de services. Coût de la bande passante, sauvegarde d’intérêts, survie d’artistes et de labels indépendants (ou pas) ? Tout se mêle et il serait facile de ne voir qu’une ombre entièrement noire sur ce tableau, mais il va être temps pour l’industrie du disque de grandir un peu et de trouver un modèle économique viable, fiable et qui ne se fasse pas sans cesse au détriment de l’utilisateur/consommateur/public que nous sommes.Je vous laisse méditer sur le sujet, pour ma part je vais profiter des quelques dernières heures qui me restent pour me gaver de cette radio nouvelle génération avant de ressombrer dans l’écoute morne et triste de RTL Grandes Ondes… […]
May 11th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
[…] Le blocage n’est évidemment pas parfait, mais ceci va probablement détourner le public français vers d’autres sites. TechCrunch publiait il y a quelques temps un tour d’horizon des sites de musique “2.0″. En dehors de Pandora et Last.fm dont j’ai déjà parlé et des excellents mais controversés radio.blog.club et The Hype Machine, les sites suivants ont l’air assez intéressants : […]
May 13th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Hi My Name Is ivandf.
May 16th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
[…] Da zur Zeit ein “simpler” IP-Filter eingesetzt wird, der eigentlich nur die IP-Adresse des Besuchers mit einer internen Liste abgleicht, und Allen den Zugriff verweigert, die nicht als US-IP-Adresse identifiziert werden können, hat sich relativ schnell jemand hingesetzt, überlegt und ein How to: access Pandora from outside the US geschrieben. Wie das funktioniert? Einfach gesagt: Dem IP-Filter wird eine US IP-Adresse “vorgetäuscht” und Pandora “denkt” man komme aus den USA und öffnet die Truhe, bzw. die Büchse. HA! […]
May 16th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Hi all,
Happy report that a workaround is in place!
Currently listening to my Pandora account loud and clear in Finland.
However, regrettably I cannot reveal it in public - as I am sure you’d agree if you were in my place - as the loophole would be swamped with traffic from all over the world and the service be disabled.
So it shall suffice to say: There is a way - Seek and ye will find…
(Honestly! I hope *some* of you will find this - but not *ALL* of you!
May 19th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I used to ways which worked.
http://tools.rosinstrument.com/cgi-proxy.htm
Or use
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4457
or other such firefox add on
I just installed it, updated with all US proxy csv list from
http://checkedproxylists.com/
“us proxy lists” on the right
http://www.checkedproxylists.com/proxylists_us.html
May 19th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
[…] where there’a a will, there’s a way = proxy How to: access Pandora from outside the US […]
May 20th, 2007 at 10:30 am
I spoke too soon…
firefox add on not working…
It was then up popped the
“experiencing technical difficulties”
damn
seems when I change to different settings
it will access but then somehow realize and shut it down
May 21st, 2007 at 11:50 am
[…] Edit: Inzwischen wurde Pandora in Deutschland abgestellt. Tipps, wie das Programm trotzdem außerhalb der US zu hören ist gibt’s hier! Leider hat bei mir noch nichts funktioniert - Ideen? […]
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Toweri, gimme a word about it.
genseric@gmail.com
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
using proxies is a good idea , but what if a person like me whose %&*% firm has prevented access to most of the proxy sites wants to listen to some good music???
May 24th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
I’ve successfully connected to Pandora from Canada using HotSpot Shied from http://www.hotspotshield.com/. Simply install the executable then go to http://www.hotspotshield.com/launch/ to login. You can connect to Pandora or surf via proxy. Disconnect via the system tray icon. Easy.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
No Pandora in Canada, but Last.FM thrives?……
Just curious what the differences in licensing and delivery models is between Pandora and Last.FM that allows the former to not be able to distribute content in Canada while the latter seems unaffected. Anyone know?
They are not identical, but o…
May 26th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
How to: Access Pandora from Outside The US…
I’m not an avid Pandora user. Personally, I like Last.FM better. But it angers me when I see that such a great service will now be unavailable for users outside of the US. TechCrunch has the details, as well as a facsimile of the letter sent to Pando…
May 27th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
@ Matthew
“I’ve successfully connected to Pandora from Canada using HotSpot Shied from http://www.hotspotshield.com/. Simply install the executable then go to http://www.hotspotshield.com/launch/ to login. You can connect to Pandora or surf via proxy. Disconnect via the system tray icon. Easy.”
This Works!!!!
im in Canada as well, and im listening right now on the new site. Thanks!
May 28th, 2007 at 2:19 am
it doesnt work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
getting a error messg from pandora that they got unexpected dificulties (yes me is using proxy)
May 28th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
[…] This is the Internet, and it ’s easy to be a hacker nowadays, so here’s a couple of services you can use to access Pandora from wherever you are.read more | digg story […]
May 29th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I’M BACK! The Firefox trick WORKS! I’m going to try it now with internet explorer. I don’t like having extra software on my computer if I don’t need it. Does Internet Explorer do proxy settings like Firefox? P.S. - FIREFOX PROXY WORKS TO GET ON PANDORA.COM
May 29th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
To get pandora.com to work with Internet Explorer, follow these steps.
1) Open Internet Explorer,
Keep trying and it will work
2) Click Tools
3) Click Internet Options
4) Click Connections Tab
5) Click LAN settings button (down low)
6) Check the Use a proxy server for your LAN checkbox.
7) Enter a proxy IP address in the field, and enter the port number from the proxy lists on the internet
9) The first one I tried on http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/ worked!
May 30th, 2007 at 3:32 am
I too am in Qatar with the both of you, Mouse and GeekGirl, and have been able to get around the government firewall by using a vpn, just like Radiohead stated. I guess as long as they don’t blacklist the vpn site, which would be unlikely because they are also used for business purposes as well. I have used some proxies, but I had to run through about 80 - 90 until one worked and then eventually it stopped working or ended up getting blocked. And yes…I hate Smack that & the Qube.
May 30th, 2007 at 7:22 am
Here is a how-to video to unblock pandora.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9q9HQDK8p8
May 31st, 2007 at 7:29 am
[…] to: access Pandora from outside the US Commentez, ou laissez un trackback à partir de votre propresite. […]
May 31st, 2007 at 1:21 pm
[…] Now, if you still want to use Pandora from outside the US, try here. Or try Lastfm… […]
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:50 pm
@Matthew
your advice save my day
“I’ve successfully connected to Pandora from Canada using HotSpot Shied from http://www.hotspotshield.com/. Simply install the executable then go to http://www.hotspotshield.com/launch/ to login. You can connect to Pandora or surf via proxy. Disconnect via the system tray icon. Easy”
I use pandora on internet explorer with hotspotshield, and do my surf with firefox
Im in Spain and is the ONLY way for me to get pandora to work.
Thanks a lot.
I encourage everybody to give it a try.
June 6th, 2007 at 2:51 am
Nothing works here. Hotspotshield can’t connect: “Disconnected [auth failure]”
Other things also did not work. Sometimes the flash content doesn’t appear. Sometimes I get the “We’re having unexpected difficulties. Our engineers are scrambling to fix things. Please try again later”
June 9th, 2007 at 10:51 am
[…] The solution: Use a proxy. The author lists eight different options, some free, some costing a few bucks. The winner appears to be Public CGI Proxies, which randomly chooses a public proxy server. Just enter the Pandora URL and wait a few seconds while it routes you through an available server. You might have to try a few times to land on one that works (I did), but it’s well worth the effort if you woke up this morning suddenly unable to feed your Pandora addiction. —Rick Broida How to access Pandora from outside the U.S. [franticindustries] […]
June 10th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
This is the saviour! Normal proxy servers will not support Flash so thay are no good for accessing Pandora (I have tried lots of them believe me, and they do not work). This does though! Follow the link and download this program and you can listen hassle free to pandora no matter where you live:
http://anchorfree.com/hotspot-shield/
June 11th, 2007 at 12:50 am
[…] UPDATE: sadly both pandora and lala are having issues with internation copyright laws and restrain the service only to listener’s from the US. It’s quite easy to listen anyhow via proxies, more on that right here […]
June 11th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Since Pandora went down on me I have been using The Filter daily. This software makes really interesting playlists from my own music collection and also recommends me new music to buy. I don’t really miss Pandora.
http://www.thefilter.com
June 18th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
[…] Tips & Tricks: Accedere a Pandora fuori dagli USA con TOR Come già sapete Pandora, la giovane radio on-line statunitense, ha chiuso i battenti agli utenti che si connettono fuori dagli USA. Per ostruire il servizio al resto del mondo è stato applicato un filtro che vigila sugli indirizzi IP in modo da riservare l’accesso a chi risiede negli USA. Aggirare questo sistema è semplice, basta adottare i metodi utilizzati per eludere i comuni sistemi censori, qualcuno ha già pensato di scrivere un HowTo. […]
June 26th, 2007 at 6:30 am
[…] Sino ad oggi il caso più famoso di chiusura, anche se parziale, di webradio è quello di Pandora, il cui fondatore, Tim Westergren, ha già redatto da tempo una petizione per il Congresso che chiama alle armi non solo i broadcaster online, ma tutti gli utenti che sono convinti che si tratti di una violazione delle libertà digitali. Infatti, sono almeno 2 mesi che Pandora ha chiuso l’accesso al servizio di streaming a tutti gli utenti che non si colleghino dagli Stati Uniti (il controllo avverrà in base all’indirizzo Ip dell’utente).Ovviamente la chiusura di Pandora agli utenti non statunitensi ha avuto l’effetto contrario a quello sperato, e in molti hanno cercato soluzioni per continuare ad ascoltare uno dei servizi web più apprezzati degli ultimi tempi. Tra queste soluzioni, apprezzabile il tutorial che spiega come aggirare il sistemache identifica, tramite il nostro indirizzo Ip, il luogo dove ci troviamo, attraverso l’uso di una vasta raccolta di servizi e proxies che permettono di navigare in maniera anonima. […]
June 28th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
tor goes fine. As usual
June 30th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Ruote from “happily anonymous”
“@Matthew
your advice save my day
“I’ve successfully connected to Pandora from Canada using HotSpot Shied
from http://www.hotspotshield.com/. Simply install the executable then go to
http://www.hotspotshield.com/launch/ to login. You can connect to Pandora
or surf via proxy. Disconnect via the system tray icon. Easy�
I use pandora on internet explorer with hotspotshield, and do my surf with firefox
Im in Spain and is the ONLY way for me to get pandora to work.
Thanks a lot.
I encourage everybody to give it a try.
:-)”
That worked for me! I’m from Chile and I’m Very happy. For the people who have problems with Hostspot Shield, there is a guide:
1.- Go to http://www.hotspotshield.com/ and download the Hostspot Shield’s Setup.
2.- Open the setup file and install the program (you can install it anywhere, I have intalled it on the Drive D:\)
3.- Open an Internet Explorer Window and login (without username or password)
4.- Open another window of any navigator (IE, Firefox, Opera….) and enter www.pandora.com.
5.- Enjoy and listen to the best music for you.
July 4th, 2007 at 9:34 am
@toweri: great inspiration!
SO! There is a way to trick the pandora protection that barely requires proxies…. Unless it remains kind of underground it will simply be blocked by pandora…. Rather than simply exposing it, i’ll try to guide you… Can’t do much more than that, sorry. Especially because if it goes public it will stop working, so I won’t release the details for everyone… but embedded on this message is a case sensitive clue.
CODE!
July 12th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Thanks toweri & nitrostar.
Catching up on my Pandora listening bigtime
July 17th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
[…] Pandora Anche se ad oggi ha chiuso l’accesso al servizio di streaming a tutti gli utenti che non si colleghino dagli Stati Uniti (bypassabile attrvaerso l’uso sapiente di proxy web), l’idea che sta alla base di Pandora è il concetto rivoluzionario di genoma musicale. Intorno a questo concetto è nato il Music Genome Project che ha il compito di “catturare” l’essenza della musica al suo livello più basso, scomponendo i suoni che la compongono in centinaia di attributi musicali o geni, fino ad arrivare ad un vero e proprio enorme genoma della musica. Presi insieme questi geni rivelano l’identità di una canzone: ogni cosa, dalla melodia all’armonia, il ritmo, la strumentazione, l’orchestrazione, l’arrangiamento, le parole e le armoniche della voce, caratterizzano inequivocabilmente una canzone. Attraverso questi geni è possibile identificare delle similarità tra due canzoni di gruppi differenti, senza seguire nessuna predeterminata classificazione, visto che le categorizzazioni, per definizione, possono essere del tutto soggettive. […]
July 27th, 2007 at 5:08 am
I am in the US so I saw the press release about Last.Fm. It was purchased by CBS/Sony earlier this year. I understand that some compromise is necessary but I thought it’s only fair for you to get the heads up.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:15 am
I get the hint, but I still can’t figure out what I’m supposed to be looking for.
August 8th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
After unsuccessfully trying a few proxys, I found the way that works is the Hot Spot Shield way that a couple of people mentioned above. It’s weird though, now that I can use it, I don’t really want to use it that much anymore!
August 15th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
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August 18th, 2007 at 2:43 am
I am still using a real Zip code, works fine for me
August 25th, 2007 at 12:32 am
[…] Il y a quelques mois de cela, dans la jungle des webradios avait surgi Pandora. Sobrement, mais mystérieusement sous-titré "Created by the Music Genome Project". Quid ? De la musique génétiquement modifiée à portée de souris ? Que nenni. Plutôt un bel exemple de ce que les technologies actuelles en matière de traitement de l’information sont capables de nous apporter au quotidien. Le principe est simple : des passionnés de musique (dont un certain Tim Westergren) ont un jour décidé d’identifier de façon précise et minutieuse les caractéristiques d’un morceau de musique : son style et son époque bien sûr, mais aussi le type de rythmique et les harmonies qui le composent, les instruments qui sont utilisés (synthétiques, acoustiques, voix, cordes, percussions…), son ambiance générale (est-il plutôt mou, festif, dansant…), ses origines (latin, nordique, nord-américain…) et certainement un millier d’autres caractères qui permettent de déterminer qu’entre un morceau de Cabrel et un de Brassens la différence ne se voit pas seulement à l’intonation mâle et moustachue d’un joueur de guitare…Ce principe étant posé, et des accords entre différents acteurs de l’industrie du disque étant établies, Pandora pouvait naître en tant que webradio d’un nouveau genre : allez sur http://www.pandora.com, saisissez le nom d’un morceau que vous considérez comme typique d’une musique que vous aimez et laissez-vous guider pour une écoute de découverte et d’émerveillements. En indiquant de temps en temps au système que le morceau qu’il vous propose vous plaît ou pas, vous allez affiner la pertinence de votre radio jusqu’à lui donner une couleur particulière. En étant vigilant dès le début, la possibilité de créer une radio uniquement basée sur un certain style musical est à la portée du premier aficionados venu. Pour ma part en 6 mois j’en ai créé près d’une dizaine, du Dub au Krautrock en passant par l’Ambient, le Jazz ou la Black-Music. Avec l’avantage de pouvoir écouter l’une, l’autre ou un mix de toutes ou partie. Le tout bien entendu sans pub, ni animateur énervant, gratuitement et à 128kbps. Bref le bonheur quoi ! Et pourtant j’avais essayé auparavant les Launch.com et autres LastFM. Pas une n’arrive à la cheville de la boîte de Pandore. C’est techniquement bluffant et d’une simplicité d’utilisation à toute épreuve.Mais… car oui je ne me fends pas aujourd’hui de ces quelques lignes juste pour encenser le modèle et faire de nouveaux émules (bien que j’eusse préféré…), mais aujourd’hui Pandora va fermer à l’écoute hors des frontières des États-Unis d’Amérique. Au départ d’ailleurs, les licences de diffusion qui leur ont permis de se monter ne leur permettaient déjà pas d’être écoutés ailleurs. Sauf que l’ouverture d’un compte ne demandant qu’un email et quelques informations non vérifiées ont permis à bon nombre de gens d’Europe, d’Asie ou d’ailleurs de profiter de cette manne sonore providentielle. Moi le premier. Mais maintenir de telles licences coûte cher et les étendre de façon trans-nationales encore plus. Et encore faut-il que les lois en vigueur dans chaque pays le permettent (en France, l’idée de Licence Globale aurait certainement permis d’aller dans leur sens). Aussi afin de ne pas définitivement plier boutique, et en attendant de pouvoir trouver les visas qui leur permettront de revenir nous aiguiser les tympas hors des terres de l’Oncle Sam, ont-ils décidé de resserrer la vis en analysant les adresses IP de connection de leurs auditeurs. C’est ainsi qu’ils ont appris que je les écoutais depuis la France, ainsi qu’un bon nombre de mes compatriotes. D’ici quelques jours (a priori le 3 mai ce sera fini) un filtre sera mis en place interdisant toute adresse non états-unienne de se brancher chez eux.Bien entendu, utiliser - par exemple - un proxy basé aux USA pour déjouer le contrôle technique est faisable, mais une fois de plus, en ces temps de globalisation et de voyages numériques transfrontaliers, de nouvelle barrières virtuelles s’érigent face à nous. Barrières qui contraignent chacun soit à se plier sans cesse aux nouvelles règles fluctuantes érigées par le marché soit à devenir des illégaux pour continuer à profiter de ce type de services. Coût de la bande passante, sauvegarde d’intérêts, survie d’artistes et de labels indépendants (ou pas) ? Tout se mêle et il serait facile de ne voir qu’une ombre entièrement noire sur ce tableau, mais il va être temps pour l’industrie du disque de grandir un peu et de trouver un modèle économique viable, fiable et qui ne se fasse pas sans cesse au détriment de l’utilisateur/consommateur/public que nous sommes.Je vous laisse méditer sur le sujet, pour ma part je vais profiter des quelques dernières heures qui me restent pour me gaver de cette radio nouvelle génération avant de ressombrer dans l’écoute morne et triste de RTL Grandes Ondes…. […]
September 1st, 2007 at 5:04 am
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September 4th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
[…] [Some geeky work-arounds for accessing Pandora from outside the US are described here] […]
September 7th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Has anything working come about in the last while. I miss Pandora.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:30 am
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September 22nd, 2007 at 5:29 pm
I tried it from Turkey and it works hotspotshield is the best… and thanxs for the hints…
September 28th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Hint: for registration use a real American zip code (google is your friend
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For use the radio I suggest the ultrasurf named program (smaller than 100 kB) . it works 100% (only with IE)
Link: http://www.wujie.net/downloads/ultrasurf/u.zip
October 1st, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Why not just use an SSH tunnel and set it within Firefox as a SOCKS proxy? Tunnel port 81 to your shell hoster in the US then tell Firefox to use localhost:81 as a SOCKS proxy.
Same thing applies for IE.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
[…] Back in the time where the initial announcement of Pandora’s international silence were made, I compiled a list of ways to listen to Pandora if you don’t live in the US. It mostly included simple proxies, and none of those methods work any more. However, a host of interested users found their way to that article, and suggested a number of new methods, some of which supposedly still work in some places. Great job, guys & girls: keep on fighting the man! Read them all in the comments of the original article. […]
October 7th, 2007 at 5:38 am
[…] sapranno Pandora è accessibile solo dagli Stati Uniti. Se avete voglia di smanettare ci sono dei modi per aggirare la protezione. E anche Google ne sa […]
October 29th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
[…] you’re really intent on trying it out, I can point you to my article about ways to listen to Pandora if you’re outside of the US. The same principles apply here, and there are some really good suggestions in the […]
December 6th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Just used Hotspot Shield from Canada and it is working like a charm!!!
http://www.hotspotshield.com/
Cheers
December 9th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
hotspotshield is working for me(canada) on firefox! good thing i read your comments, i thought i jsut had to check back every now and again after getting those proxy “technical difficulties warnings” lol
December 15th, 2007 at 11:58 am
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December 27th, 2007 at 1:56 am
i just tried hotspotshield from korea and it works!
thanks a lot!RB! i always prefer pandora to last.fm
January 10th, 2008 at 4:32 am
The simplest way is just visiting www.globalpandora.com
For me it worked fine.
Juanito
January 11th, 2008 at 1:07 am
[…] maar niet verder verklappen Ik kon zelfs weer inloggen in mijn account. Overigens vond ik ook andere manieren, maar het wijzigen van proxy in je browser werkte bij mij niet. Ik kreeg wel een US proxy maar […]
January 14th, 2008 at 5:28 am
[…] di scuse. Da allora sono sorte molte guide ed how-to sul come aggirare il problema (vedere qua e qua per il metodo VPN), tuttavia tutte quante non funzionano a dovere andando a rilento a causa […]
January 14th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
[…] depuis quelques jours. Il y avait bien des moyens pour accéder astucieusement au service soit en jouant avec les proxy (compliqué et peu fiable) soit en utilisant un service comme HotSpotShield qui crée un […]
January 15th, 2008 at 1:53 am
[…] in Europe for a while. Of course, it’s possible to access it by playing around with a proxy service but it is often complicated and unreliable. But as TechCrunch France reports, now GlobalPandora has […]
January 15th, 2008 at 8:11 am
[…] shut down for everyone outside of US and UK (it has since closed its doors in UK, too), I listed several proxy-related methods to access the service regardless of where you live, but most of them were short […]
January 16th, 2008 at 2:31 am
[…] venait à fermer lui aussi, Franticindustries a écrit un article avec différentes méthodes pour accéder à Pandora en dehors des […]
January 16th, 2008 at 3:14 am
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January 16th, 2008 at 4:51 am
[…] Para los interesados, aqui un tutorial sobre como acceder a Pandora y otros servicios como Hulu desde fuera de USA. […]
January 16th, 2008 at 5:45 am
use www.roxyp.info instead.. open the page, type pandora.com and off you go..
unfortunatly pandora is down due to technical difficulties right now
January 16th, 2008 at 7:41 am
What about Globalpandora? I’m commin from Germany and i could listen to music