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Overview: Replay Media Catcher (Pandora web downloader)

Replay Media Catcher is one of the best streaming audio/video recording programs. It can save streaming audio/video of the most popular formats and protocols, including HTTP .m4a streaming music from pandora.com.

Replay Media Catcher is compatible with Windows 7 / Vista / XP. You can also use Replay Media Catcher on Mac OS X (tested on Snow Leopard) or use RMC on Linux (tested on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx) with freeware Wine emulator. Alternatively you can install Replay Media Catcher on a Mac with Windows using Bootcamp or Parallels Desktop for Max OS X.

We recommend you to try to save streaming media from Pandora using a FREE demo version of Replay Media Catcher. Note that even if you buy Replay Media Catcher, it comes with 30-day unconditional money back gurantee, so you have nothing to lose anyway.

How to save HTTP .m4a streaming music with Replay Media Catcher from pandora.com on Windows 7, Vista or XP

1. Download Replay Media Catcher (Pandora web downloader) and install it. It is free to try.
2. Launch Replay Media Catcher. It appears like this:
   
   
   
   
3. Click the Start Recording button. (Note: With many web-sites it is necessary to click the Start Recording button before navigating to the site. So please start recording before opening Pandora in your web-browser.) The button changes like this:
   
   
   
   
4. Launch your web-browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome...) and navigate to pandora.com.
   Note that we recommend to launch your web-browser from Replay Media Catcher by clicking Record -> Launch Default Browser.
5. Play the streaming music you want to save from Pandora. Files recorded from pandora.com (and other web-sites) start appearing in the files list like this:
   
   
   
   
6. Once recording starts, you don't need to watch what you're recording. You can stop watching or listening, leave pandora.com, and go play something else to save. Recording continues automatically.
7. Click Stop Recording when you're finished recording media streams from Pandora and other web-sites.
   
   

Freeware Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems like Mac OS. With freeware Wine for Mac OS, freeware WineBottler for Mac OS, shareware Crossover for Mac OS you can install and run Windows applications just like you would in Windows. You don't need a Windows license to run Replay Media Catcher on Mac OS:
How to install and run Replay Media Catcher on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

Freeware Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems like Linux. With freeware Wine for Linux or shareware Crossover for Linux you can run Windows applications just like you would in Windows. You don't need a Windows license to run Replay Media Catcher on Linux:
How to install and run Replay Media Catcher in Linux (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala)

Overview: Pandora

Pandora offers streaming music. It broadcasts HTTP .m4a streams.

Legal note: Is it legal to save streaming music from Pandora?

Links to Pandora, Replay Media Catcher and other Pandora downloaders

• Replay Media Catcher - One of the best streaming audio/video recorders
• Replay Capture Suite - Complete recording solution
• The best streaming audio/video recording programs
• All streaming audio/video recording software
• All streaming audio ripping software
• Pandora

I can't save from Pandora with Replay Media Catcher. What should I do?

• Applian.com: Updated recommendation on recording/downloading/capturing/ripping/saving streaming media from Pandora
• Streaming audio/video recording forum: Threads tagged with Pandora
• Error reporting: Report errors in this tutorial. Notify us if the program doesn't work with Pandora anymore.
• Google custom search:

Links to this tutorial

• pandora.com: How to record streaming music from Pandora
• pandora.com: How to capture streaming music from Pandora
• pandora.com: How to download streaming music from Pandora
• pandora.com: How to save streaming music from Pandora
• pandora.com: How to rip streaming music from Pandora

Last check: 2009.02.03