Listen to Pandora in Winamp

Pandora is a online service that finds similar music to an artist, album or genre that you specify and which creates your unique radio station that plays the related titles. Unfortunatly it´s only available on their website and not in music players like winamp. Until now, that is.

You need the latest version of Winamp (5.21 at the moment). All you need to do is browse to the winamp directory, enter the plugins/ml/ folder and edit the file “ml_online.ini”. Find the line that contains “ElementID7=-1” and replace it with the following lines:

1. ElementID7=7000
2. ElementIcon7=11003
3. ElementSubbed7=1
4. ElementName7=Pandora
5. ElementURL7=http://www.pandora.com/?cmd=tunermini
6. ElementID8=-1

Open Winamp again and head to Media Library/Online Services/Pandora. You will need an account with pandora to make this work. If you have one you are ready to enjoy it in winamp.

via: googlesystems

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Author: admin, Saturday May 13, 2006 -
Tags:music, pandora, winamp

Responses so far:

1. Martyn Parker says:

   May 14, 2006 at 1:25 pm

   My ml_online.ini file does not contain the line “ElementID7=-1″. I have tried adding the other lines but to no avail. Anyone got any ideas?

   Thanks

   Reply
2. Martin says:

   May 14, 2006 at 3:43 pm

   do you have a different line ending with ElementID ?

   which version are you using ?

   Reply
3. Mastaabaita says:

   May 15, 2006 at 9:43 am

   Works Great!

   Thanks for the info..

   Found a nice tool that grabs the MP3 files downloaded from Pandora.. tosses them into a folder and renames them with the track info.

   This way you can create your own playlists for later.

   http://3tunes.codingproject.com/

   Reply
4. Marisol says:

   January 20, 2008 at 6:15 am

   Hello,
   I’m using Winamp 5.52, but there’s not a folder named ml in the Winamp folders on programfiles.

   any idea?

   Reply
5. Jon says:

   February 13, 2008 at 3:14 pm

   For winamp 5.52

   Check

   C:Documents and Settings\Application DataWinampPluginsml

   Reply
6. Scott says:

   June 2, 2008 at 5:35 am

   Yeah, it’s definitely in
   C:\Documents and Settings\myname\Application Data\Winamp\Plugins\ml

   not, c:\program files\winamp\ at all

   If you have it in c:\program files you are probably using like windows 98, if you’re not on 98 (come on, who is? you are? dumbass.. lol jk) then look in c:\documents and settings\

   I had to read 3 tutorials to figure this shit out. Thanks Jon :)

   Reply
7. Dan says:

   December 21, 2010 at 9:34 pm

   So, I am using the latest version of Winamp (5.6) with Windows 7(64). I found the ml_online.ini in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Winamp\Plugins\ml, but there is no “ElementID” line.

   What do I do?

   Thanks for the help.

   Reply
8. MV says:

   September 25, 2011 at 7:24 pm

   I believe this does not work anymore. Pandora probably made changes to their site and patched this hack so it doesn’t work anymore.

   Reply