Friday, February 24, 2012

How to enjoy Pandora Radio from outside US


Pandora is an awesome site to listen music. According to its own description:

Pandora radio is the personalized internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites. Create custom web radio stations, listen free.

Pandora works great, it doesn't need any installation, just open it in a tab in your browser, select your favorite music to create you own "radio station" and play it in background. When your selected music will run out, Pandora will look for more music according to your preferences. But it has a little issue if you are outside US. You can't access this site. They track your IP address and forbid the access.



But there is an easy solution, I recently found this little jewel in Internet: KProxy Agent. It allows you to connect to Internet from other IP addresses. Well, if you don't understand very much about this tech things the only thing you need to know is that you will be able to listen pandora anywhere. And it is free.

Everybody can do it, just follow the next steps :)

Step 1. Download KProxy Agent
Go to http://kproxy.com/agent.jsp and download the Windows portable version. It is the easiest version for people with no computer skills. If you think you can deal with proxy servers try to download the cross-platform version.



Step 2. Unzip KProxy Agent
You have downloaded a zip, just unzip it in your computer. Once it is unzipped it is ready to use. No installation is required. Everything should work like this in Windows :D

Step 3. Launch KProxy Agent
In the KProxy Agent folder you will find a file "Surf". Execute it and it will open a Google Chrome browser ready to navigate.



Step 4. Be sure that you have selected an US server!
KProxy Agent has several servers available, just pick an US server, so the world will know that you connect to internet in US!



Step 4. Go to Pandora
Just type in the browser "pandora.com" like any other browser and... ta-da! Pandora works fine.



I was listening for hours music and was great. I think I'll use this everyday :)

Now I'm trying this with other platforms that I have a lot of interest, like Google Music and... Netflix. I'll publish my results soon!

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