2 Best Ways to Download Pandora Music for Offline Listening

Except for Spotify and Apple Music, there are some other popular music radio sties providing massive free music tracks as well, such as Pandora. As one of the biggest online music radios, Pandora is a music streaming and automated music recommendation service accessible through web browser or mobile app. Like the other major streaming music sites, Pandora also offers different types of memberships for subscribers, including the free ad-support radio, ad-free $4.99 plus plan and unlimited $9.99 premium plan. With free subscription, users can only listen to the free Pandora music radio online without downloading any music and playlist for offline listening. The other two allow users download music from Pandora but somehow have other limits too. In this case, if you want to download Pandora music offline without any limit, the best way is to take advantage of some 3rd party Pandora music apps or extensions. In case you need such solutions urgently, we are putting together two most popular ways for you to easily download Pandora playlists for playback on PC or any mobile device.

Method 1. Download Pandora Radio with TunesKit Audio Capture

One of the best ways to download radio from Pandora is using TunesKit Audio Capture, a professional Pandora downloader and recorder that can easily download and convert any Pandora playlist in lossless high quality and save them in common audio formats like MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, etc. With this smart tool, you can capture and download Pandora music files offline on Mac and Windows with one click only and play the recorded tracks on any music player as you like. It supports almost all popular web browsers like Chrome, Safari, IE, etc. so that you can record unlimited Pandora music radio while playing them in different tabs once. Once downloaded, you can freely edit the music quality by setting the bit rate, codec, trimming or merging the tracks, etc.

Steps to Record and Download Pandora with TunesKit Audio Capture

Now the following guide will instruct you how to download and convert Pandora music offline with TunesKit Streaming Audio Capture step by step. So make sure you have already installed the free trial version on your PC or Mac.

Step 1Set up TunesKit Audio Capture

Launch TunesKit Audio Capture on your computer. You'll be prompted with an open window where a list of media programs displayed. You can add any other program by clicking the "+" button according to your own recording purpose. Before downloading any music from Pandora, make sure the web browser like Chrome, Safari or Internet Explorer was added to the list. Otherwise you should manually get it done in advance. Then click the "format" icon at right corner to set the output format such as MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, etc.

Step 2Start to record and download Pandora music

Now click any browser from the starting window and it will open automatically. Then go to Pandora music site and log into your own account. Once logged in, you can browse the music stations and begin playing any track or playlist. You can play multiple tracks in different tabs at the same time. TunesKit will detect the music and divide them into separate tracks individually. You can record and download unlimited tracks once with TunesKit Pandora music recorder.

Step 3Edit music quality

Next to each recording, you'll find the "edit" icon which will let you trim the recorded tracks flexibly. You can also edit the ID3 tags of the music in this window.

Step 4Save and locate recorded Pandora radio

When you want to stop the downloading, simply quit the browser. Then the Cancel button will change to Save. Click it and you'll find all your recordings are saved instantly. After that, you can find all recorded tracks in the history folder. Then you can click and play each audio to preview the quality and delete those unwanted ones.

Method 2. Download Pandora Music with Chrome Extension

This solution only works when you are using Google Chrome browser as it provides Pandora extension in Chrome web store which will enable you download songs when you are playing them in Pandora. The best part is this extension is completely free and free from malwares and advertisements. You only need to install it in Chrome and you can start to download Pandora playlist right away. Here we go.

Step 1Install Pandora Download Links extension

The Pandora extension in Chrome web store is called Pandora Download Links. Visit the store and search the extension for free. Then add this extension to Chrome.

Step 2Start to download Pandora music

Now go to Pandora website, log into your account and begin to play any of Pandora radio. Next to the song, you can see a download button displayed. Simply click on it and save Pandora playlist on your computer. Then you can freely listen to the downloaded Pandora music offline at any time.

Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of TunesKit who is obessing about tech, movie and software.