Pandora stopped International Streaming
Pandora.com made the decision to stop streaming music to users who are not living in the United States.They use an IP checker script to determine whether a user comes from the United States or from a different country. If the IP is associated with a US server, users are authorized to access the website and play music just like before. If the IP address is associated with a non-US server, users are blocked from accessing the website.
Pandora already updated their FAQ section to reflect the change: here is what the entry states:
Delivery of Pandora is based on proper licensing from the content rights holders - we have always believed strongly in honoring the guidelines as determined by the artists, labels and publishers. In the U.S. there is a federal statute called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that provides this license for all the music you hear on Pandora. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent license outside the U.S.
A tiny note on the frontpage is stating that "Pandora is currently for US listening only" which is another blow into the face of music lovers from all over the world.
While it is not clear who is responsible for the restriction, Pandora because of financial reasons or the music industry or rights holders because of rights, or both, it is clear that users from all over the world are again punished for a system that should not exist in its current form anymore.
Update: If you are living in a country that Pandora has shut out from their service try the following Chrome extension. Media Hint is an unobtrusive extension for the browser that lets you access contents on Pandora, Hulu and a lot of other US-only websites even if you are living in another country. There is no configuration and connections should work right after you have installed the extension in the browser.
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The warning message about AAC streams when you load streams is because you don’t have the free Orban AAC/aacPlus Player Plugin installed.
http://codecpack.co/download/Orban-aacPlus-Player-Plugin.html
Justin, thanks for the information.
does this support AAC ? or only mp3 streaming
I’d say it supports all pls streams but I have not tried that so cannot verify it 100%.
Thank you Martin for a most informative and viable solution (it allowed me to play streams from a Netherland internet radio station in my WMP)! Continued success to you!
Barnabas (USA)
Your steps’ recommendation is still valid until 7th October 2012.. Thank you very much !!
Thank you!
You must convert file.pls to file.m3u
because file.pls open with winamp and file.m3u open with wmp.
Hi
2017 still kicking on Windows 7
Thx a ton
Hey, even i can do it, i stumbled through it and it works great! The only instruction advice i will add as i had to figure this out, when the wmp box opens that says save or open the bar on right says wmp click that drop down and select “open pls in wmp” once you do that it will work . Took me quite some time to discover that as i am no computer expert by any means. Having said that, previously i had downloaded codec packages and something about aac. None did any good. This rocks, i listen to a lot of internet radio and a number of them have dropped flash player and getting wmp to work had been a nightmare. So many thanks for this great solution to another problem that Micro-Hell will not even address. Peace- Out
openplsinwmp came in a zip file. I unpacked it, and didn’t find anything that looks like an executable, and even the files in the “doc” folder were in a format windows didn’t recognize. I’m not stupid. you said it would open effortlessly. It didn’t. This a rabbit hole I don’t want to go down.