Pandora, an American streaming music service, has around 6 million subscribers all over the world. Pandora features its Music Genome Project, which divides songs by their musical traits. Pandora analyses music chosen by users and users is able to reach songs they like easier from the suggestions of Pandora.
Like other music streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora offers subscriptions to users to gain profits. Users of Pandora can choose to listen for free or subscribe to Pandora. Free users can enjoy some functions of Pandora but they need to stand the advertisement at the same time. If you get the Pandora Plus plan, pricing $4.99 per month, you can enjoy a non-ad listening experience. And you can also choose the Pandora Premium plan and pay $9.99 every month.
If you listen to Pandora for free, you cannot download Pandora songs and listen to them offline. Even if you choose the Pandora Plus plan or Pandora Premium plan, you cannot listen to the downloaded songs when your free trial or subscription ends. What if you still want to listen to Pandora beyond the subscription or free trial? Don’t worry. Many other people have the same problem. The most popular method to solve this problem is to apply for a third-party tool to download and convert Pandora to MP3.
Part 1. What can convert Pandora to MP3?
Since the Pandora songs are protected, you cannot download Pandora songs or save them forever. There is a magical tool that can download Pandora songs and then save them in MP3 or some other common formats in high audio quality. It is called TunesKit Audio Capture. This audio capture is able to capture any audio your soundcard on the computer gives out. This means that you can not only record and download Pandora songs but also any streaming music that can be played on your computer.
TunesKit Audio Capture can record live broadcasts, sounds in games, streaming music from Tidal, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, and more. TunesKit can download sounds from the web. For example, you can play a video on YouTube with the Google Chrome browser, this tool can record the sound of this video and convert it to MP3. It also supports media player apps like Windows Media Player, iTunes, and others. TunesKit can help you to save the downloaded audios in different formats such as MP3, FLAC, AAC, and others. And you can download multiple music tracks at the same time. Finally, this tool offers the right to edit the ID3 tags of your audios and the simple interface makes it easy to operate. In the following parts, we will talk about how to download Pandora songs with TunesKit Audio Capture.
Main Features of TunesKit Pandora to MP3 Converter
- Download unlimited number of audios from Pandora
- Supports 6 export formats like MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, M4A, and M4B
- Save streaming music with high audio quality and ID3 tags
- Support the trimming, cutting and editing of the recorded songs
Part 2. Necessary preparations for converting Pandora to MP3
Before we start to teach you the specific steps to download Pandora and convert Pandora Music to MP3, it is necessary to make the needed preparations clear. Firstly, you need a computer with Mac or Windows system. Secondly, sign up for Pandora. You can choose to listen to free, use the free trial of the Pandora plans or pay for it. Last but not least, download and install TunesKit Audio Capture on your computer.
Part 3. How to record and convert Pandora songs to MP3
Now I am sure that you have got all things done. It is time to record Pandora songs and save them in MP3. There are 3 steps.
1Open TunesKit Pandora to MP3 Converter
Launch this streaming music downloader on your computer. You will find some icons already on the screen of this software such as Windows Media Player, Deezer, IE. Click the Pandora icon to launch Pandora. If you cannot find Pandora, Click the Add Programs button to add Pandora.
2Set format for Pandora songs
Click the Format button. Since you want to convert Pandora songs to MP3, you need to click the MP3 button here. You can also change the codec, sample rate, and other settings of Pandora songs.
3Convert Pandora to MP3
Return to Pandora and play the music that you want to download and convert to MP3. The software creates a recording track automatically. When you want to stop the recording, just stop playing the music and close Pandora. Click the Save button to save and convert Pandora songs to MP3.
Part 4. Conclusion
Pandora is a great music platform. But there are some limitations on the free users of Pandora and even the subscribers to Pandora. Luckily, you have TunesKit Audio Capture, which enables you to listen to Pandora offline even if you listen to Pandora for free or your subscription is due. Except for downloading Pandora songs, this tool supports Amazon Music, Tidal, Deezer, and many other music services. You can listen to all of them only with the support of TunesKit Audio Capture. Still wait? Or download TunesKit for free now!
Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of TunesKit who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.
