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First, it might be helpful to have more than one email
address to create more than one account. There are plenty of free
email address services out there such as Yahoo or Gmail. The issue
with single computers, multiple Pandora users, is how the total of all
accounts are limited to 40 hours, not just each individually.
That's the problem I had. In the process, I figured out I needed
to create multiple Pandora accounts from 2 or more email addresses.
But that's not the only thing you have to do.
Pandora is storing session information on your computer to limit the
total of all accounts on a single computer to a total of 40 hours.
So its this information that has to be deleted to "reset" the Pandora
account back to 40 hours (it'll show up as 39 hours when reset).
Pandora uses Macromedia Flash player data to run.
To Reset Pandora Internet Radio, do this:
Log out of Pandora and close your browser.
Open up this location on your computer using My
Computer:
(note: replace USER with your profile name that you're logged into the
computer as):
C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application
Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
Go into this folder by double-clicking it. In this
folder my be one or more folders with seemingly random characters. Go
into the sub folder and find the folder named: pandora.com
Delete it.
Next, go to this location (again replace USER with your
profile name):
C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application
Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys
Find the folder #pandora.com and Delete it.
Then go to C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Cookies
Delete all the cookies (or just the pandora cookie if
you want to save your other cookies)
That's it! Just restart Pandora and log into the
next account that has not expired or create a new account at this point
using another email address. Local information stored on the
computer will be removed and your time limit is reset. Basically
you are removing the session information and resetting the saved account
total back to 40 hours. Now Pandora might be saving the account
total on their end and there's nothing you can do about that except have
more than one account. The problem is when this session
information is saved locally on the computer. If you log out of a
computer and someone else had been using this same computer to listen to
Pandora, the hours are totaled up even though there was two or more
accounts in use. This was my issue. I move around the
network working on computers and like to log into Pandora to have some
tunage while working. When one of the office people uses Pandora
and they had used up the 40 hours, I was screwed. Well, I am in
control of the computer so I can remove anything stored on it. So
Clearing the Pandora account limit is completely within my control.
Even though I didn't use up my 40 hours someone else did but I was
limited to their hours of use.
That being said, Pandora is a great service and all of
us Pandora users should do what we can to support them. The best
way to do this is to support Pandora's advertisers! Those ads on
their music interface are what pay's their bills. Some of them are
pretty interesting, check them out!
IF that doesn't do it for you or Pandora changes their
program or you can't get to this information because the computer is
locked down ... or whatever, then here are a few other Internet Radio
Services that you can check out:
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