Services like Pandora or Finetune are great ways of finding new songs and artists but pose the problem that it is not possible to download the songs easily. The creators would run into serious troubles if they would allow downloads and they try their best to kill every possible loophole that is found. This happened to programs like Pandoras Jar for instance which could be used to download the songs for a time.

There is however one solution that can’t be cut off. Everyone is able to record every sound that hits the soundcard and this is the little trick that we are going to use. We simply record the sound of the soundcard with Audacity. The method is not as comfortable as using a program that starts and rips everything by itself but it is a solution that always works. If you hear the sound you can use this method.

Install Audacity and click on edit > preferences. Change the channels under recording to stereo. That is all we need to change in Audacity. Now open Pandora.com and just before the song begins to play hit the red button (record) in Audacity. Record the complete song from Pandora and stop the recording session afterwards. Save the file and you have the song recorded and ready to be played.

You can use Audacity to cut the song before you save it, e.g. if part of the next was also recorded.