How to Download Pandora Music for Offline Listening

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on September 13, 2021

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Pandora is one of the most popular streaming music service platform, like Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music Unlimited, YouTube Music Premium(YouTube Music), SoundCloud, etc. You can sign up for a subscription plan to stream ad-free music, Pandora gives you a personalized music experience that continually evolves with your tastes. Start streaming for free today by searching for your favorite artist, songs, albums, playlists and podcasts

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Just like Spotify Unlimited, Pandora Premium will cost $9.99 per month with a 60-day free trial. Existing Pandora Plus subscribers received a longer 6-month trial. Spotify offers a 30-day free trial to new users.

Pandora Premium: $9.99 per month.
Pandora Family Pricing: $14.99 per month or $164.89 per year.
Song Library: The same as Spotify, more than 40 million songs.
Free Trial Length: 60-day free trial for new users, free trial time is 30 days longer than Spotify.
Availability: Android phones, iPhones, Chromecast, Android Audio, CarPlay and other car stereos (at launch); desktop computers and connected devices, Android devices, iPhones, iPads, desktop computers, Amazon Echo speakers, Amazon Fire TV, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, smart TVs, Sonos speakers and other connected devices Chromecast, Android Wear, Android Audio, CarPlay and other car stereos.

Question:

How to Keep Pandora Music Songs as MP3/M4A after 60-Day Free Trial

“Pandora provides 60-day free trial for any new users. You can download Pandora Music on iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android phone/table, Mac or PC for offline listening without any limitation during the period of 60-day free trial. If you are not satisfied, you can simply cancel the subscription and you won’t be billed when 60-day free trial ends. However, when the 60-day free trial ends, all songs downloaded can’t be played on Pandora app. If you want to keep Pandora Music songs playable after free trial, or offline play Pandora Music songs on MP3 player, use third-party Pandora Music downloader, Pandora Music Converter and Pandora Music Recorder to convert the downloaded Pandora music to MP3/M4A/AAC, or record Pandora music as MP3/M4A/AAC audio files.”

Pandora, also known as Pandora Internet Radio or Pandora Radio, Pandora is an American music radio website. Some Pandora Premium users want to download music from Pandora for offline listening on MP3 player, like Sony Walkman, iPod Nano, etc. How can you download music from Pandora to MP3? If you want to cancel Pandora premium subscription, you no longer have access to any music or playlists you added from Pandora, because all songs on Pandora are protected by DRM protection, which is a streaming music service like Apple Music and Spotify, so you can’t download songs from Pandora to keep them playable forever. In other words, if you decide to stop the Pandora Premium subscription, all your Pandora tracks will not playable.

To download Pandora music for offline listening, keeping songs downloaded from Pandora playable forever, or playing Pandora music on MP3 player offline, you need to download Pandora songs offline without restrictions. Today, we’ll teach you two effective methods to get Pandora songs without DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection.

Method 1: Free Download Music from Pandora with Chrome or Firefox

This party teach you how to download music from Pandora is with Chrome or Firefox. As we all know that the Chrome or Firefox browser has built-in web Developer Tool, which enables us easily to find the true download links of the music files, then we can free download and save music from Pandora. Let’s show you steps-by-steps guide on how to use Chrome or Firefox to download Pandora music.

Step 1. Open Pandora on Chrome or Firefox
First of all, please open Pandora stations for Web on Chrome or Firefox and log in your Pandora account, then play your Radio Station. Next, right-click any blank area of the page and choose “Inspect/Inspect Element”.

Step 2. Find the Download Links of the Music Files
In this step, please click the Network option on the menu bar and select Media tab. Then, press F5 to refresh the page, you will find a “Play” button to play the music file. Just click the “Play” button, you can easily to find the download link of the music file in the Media tab.

Step 3. Download Songs from Pandora
After finding the true download link of the music file, please Right click on the download link and choose “Open” in new tab, the Chrome or Firefox browser will pop up a music player, then just click the “Download” button or just right click on the music player to download Pandora music as MP3 files by clicking “Save audio as…” .

Tips: If you want to download more MP3 audio files from Pandora, just repeat the above steps to download Pandora Music and Podcasts one by one.

Disadvantage: The above Pandora music download methods can help you download MP3 songs from Pandora by Chrome or Firefox, but this method is very slow, and some song links are not easy to find. Below, we’ll teach you another more effective method to get Pandora music for MP3/AAC/M4A/WMA formats.

Method 2: Download Pandora Music to MP3/AAC/M4A/WMA with Streaming Audio Recorder

Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes are being applied to music to prevent certain users from pirating, but this actually prevents most users from taking full ownership of the music they purchased. Music buyers because of this can only have their purchased songs on a few devices, the buyer does not really own these songs. Although we purchased or subscribed to streaming music service, but we can’t offline play music on MP3 player, iPod Nano and other unauthorized device.

This Streaming Audio Recorder - Screen Recorder is designed to record music playing from any online music store such as Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play Music, Youtube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, etc, and save them as a lossless MP3, AAC, M4A and WMA file. As we all know, we won’t actually be removing DRM from the streaming music, with the help of this Streaming Audio Recorder, you don’t need to remove DRM protection from the streaming music, just recording the protected music to MP3 with a high quality format. What’s more, this Screen Recorder not only can help you record Pandora music as MP3 files, but also allows you record and capture streaming video and save them as MP4 video files.

More Functions:

- Record streaming music and audio in MP3/WMA/AAC/M4A for playback offline.
- Record Amazon video, iTunes M4V video, Youtube video and more online video or streaming video.
- Convert recorded Pandora music to MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, M4A.
- Record Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube Music and any other sound on computer.
- Capture any activity on Mac or Windows computer.
- Record any online music, radio, audio call and save them as MP3/WMA/AAC/M4A audio files.
- Record and save your webcam videos on your computer.
- Editing the recording contents before saving them.

Steps to Download and Convert Pandora Music to MP3 on PC/Mac

Step 1. Launch Pandora Music on PC/Mac
Download and run the Pandora Music recorder on computer, we provide Windows version and Mac version.
After running the program, you can see there are three function: Audio Recorder, Video Recorder, Snapshot. To record music from Pandora Premium, please click “Audio Recorder”.

Then, download, install and run the Pandora App on Windows/Mac computer, or open Pandora web player via browser.
After opening Pandora with a browser or Pandora app. Then sign in with your Pandora Premium account and find a songs you want to record.

Step 2. Just Turn on System Sound
To record music from Pandora with high quality sound quality, just turn on the toggle of “System Sound” and set the volume, then turn off “Microphone”.

Step 3. Choose to Download and Convert Pandora Music to MP3
Click Output Settings and go to Audio sections, you can set the output format of the Pandora music as MP3, M4A, AAC, WMA and decide the quality of the recording. You can also adjust the volume now by dragging the slider or you can volume up or down later during the recording.

Step 4.Record Pandora Music as MP3 Files
Find any track you want to record. When you are ready, click the “REC” button to start recording. You can start or stop recording with hotkeys and you can click Change hot key to change keyboard shortcuts to the ones you like.

After that, a window will appear, allowing you to pause, stop the recording, enter the duration of the Pandora music to schedule a recording.

Step 5. Listen and Save the Recorded Pandora Songs on Computer
To stop the recording, simply click the rectangle icon. Now, the songs be record and saved on your computer, you can offline listen to the recorded Pandora music, or transfer Pandora music to MP3 player for enjoying anywhere you like.

Free download the Screen Recorder and try to record music and videos online.

Justin Sabrina

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Justin Sabrina

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