PandoraJam 2.1 Beta: Recording is back!
People love streaming radio service Pandora. For a subset of fans, folks that may recorded a song or two off terrestrial radio to cassette tape back in the day, PandoraJam is the perfect complement, a stand-alone player that also records, tags and imports song directly into iTunes.
Recent changes on the Pandora site crippled PandoraJam, notably the ability to record songs. Although the ability to thumb up/down tracks and Scrobbling are still missing in action, PandoraJam 2.1 Beta fixes recording, which is a very good thing.
And, here is the proof — songs downloaded, tagged and placed in my Mac’s Music folder and listed in an iTunes playlist — in the form of screen caps.
Best of all, Notification Center reports when Growl-compatible PandoraJam plays new songs as well as the completion of recordings — see also: Growl 2 adds Notification Center support, OmniGrowl 4.5 adds Growl 2, Notification Center support.
With thumbing and Scrobbling still missing — the Share button doesn’t seem to be functioning either — PandoraJam 2.1 Beta is a work in progress. Yet, with recording re-enabled, it’s a work progress I can live with…
What’s your take?
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I have used PandoraJam and loved it. But, and I know there are different views on this, I’ve always had guilt pangs that I was doing something illegal. Can I use it guilt free? What is the legal situation of such recording? Thanks
My notion is that technically-speaking, yeah, this is illegal…
How is PandoraJam different from recording traditional radio, which by the way is perfectly legal? The crime happens with the distribution of the recordings.
No distribution, no (moral) crime.
However, given the utterly absurd nature of copyright law now, if you have to ask, it’s probably illegal.
You would think without distributing it, it would not be a crime – but then if I put myself in the band’s or artists’ shoes – I see the other side of it.
That recording you just made from Pandora took money out of their pocket for a song you would have had to purchase otherwise.
That kind of clarifies my thinking when I look at it that way. … And I’m back to illegal and the corresponding guilt.
“That recording you just made from Pandora took money out of their pocket for a song you would have had to purchase otherwise.”
No, no, no and forever no.
Aside from a handful of top artists, almost none make anything from the sale of recorded music and that isn’t something new. Further, Pandora does pay content owners. How much and what percentage of that ends up in artist hands is a lot more interesting question very much akin to the issue of who profits form CD and download sales.
Pandora is by far the biggest streamed music service and they are being choked to death (I.e. losing money every quarter despite a growing customer base) not by piracy but by egregious music label royalty rates well in excess of those paid by players in other distribution segments.
But don’t take my word for it. Founder Tim Westergren recently pleaded with Congress to pass the Internet Radio Fairness Act, which would level the playing field.
Again, recording music from terrestrial radio is legal. Why would it be illegal for me or anyone to make a personal recording of a song from Internet radio? Because it’s “wrong” or because the labels spent millions on lobbying to make it illegal?
Who do you think bought and paid for egregiously high Internet radio royalty rate legislation — artists?
You really need to educate yourself and stop repeating music industry boiler plate lies.
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