Pandora blocked at work, using an iPod Touch - any ideas around this?

[XeroX]

Pandora is super sweet, to say the least, but its blocked at work.
I've just installed a few different proxy apps to try on Monday (Proxy
Pal - app store and WebBrowser - Cydia) but I really doubt it would
allow a work around since the music streamed is controlled through the
Pandora app. My question is, has anyone else came across this issue
and more importantly how did you remedy the situation?

[Richard Allen]

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[ax0n]

Bypassing web filters at work is a quick way to get your ass handed to you by management. If you load up crazy software to get around the web filter with anonymous proxies, TOR, tunneling, etc, you could get in pretty serious trouble. If you go out-of-band and use your own data plan to listen to your tunes, you're not really putting anyone at risk on your network.

Alternatively, you could simply try asking your manager if he could get IT to give you access to Pandora. It's a well-known fact that music improves productivity for many people.

I worked at a shop in town with a really draconian web filtering policy. What I ended up doing was recording streaming radio at home all day long and then copying it to my music player that night to listen to at work the next day, or downloading music podcasts. I'm into electronic DJ Mixes, and there are a lot of DJ podcasts around.

[Bob Brown - WØNQX]

he is right on this, our shop filters streaming audio too.
I use Station ripper to record and make my play-lists and
dump them to a external HD and them play that at work.

And of course my favorite Inet radio station to
rip is MFH (http://musicforhackers.com/)




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[Ryan Trinder]

Where is it you work? Music generally makes people more productive. Do I really need examples? There are qualiity tunes in the air in kc, not always the best to say the least. 90.1 for instance has a diverse selection.

If pandora is blocked, try last.fm.

On Dec 4, 2010 8:53 PM, "Bob Brown - WØNQX" <bbr...@byrg.net> wrote:

he is right on this, our shop filters streaming audio too.
I use Station ripper to record and make my play-lists and
dump them to a external HD and them play that at work.

And of course my favorite Inet radio station to
rip is MFH (http://musicforhackers.com/)




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Thanks in Advance

   Bob Brown, WØNQX

   Kansas City Metro Area

   http://sm0kenet.net

   http://byrg.net

   http://kcdstar.byrg.net

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Its not how many watts you have,
its the SIZE of your watts that matter! -- Johnny Marshall, W0JM-SK

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On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 17:30, ax0n <perm...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Bypassing web filters at wo...

[Billy Crook]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 17:30, ax0n <perm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bypassing web filters at work is a quick way to get your ass handed to you
> by management. If you load up crazy software to get around the web filter
> with anonymous proxies, TOR, tunneling, etc, you could get in pretty serious
> trouble. If you go out-of-band and use your own data plan to listen to your
> tunes, you're not really putting anyone at risk on your network.
>
> Alternatively, you could simply try asking your manager if he could get IT
> to give you access to Pandora. It's a well-known fact that music improves
> productivity for many people.

I find other peoples' music and general
dicking-around-on-the-web-noise extremely distracting while I am
trying to work. So maybe that's why it got blocked. What makes one
person more productive, irritates the shit out of people in the
adjacent cubes.

So far as how to subvert your company's filtering? ssh home and
portforward to a webproxy running there. I use this method to test
one of our webservices as an outside customer. It would absolutely
bypass any webfilter if I had implemented one. I don't think that's
the right thing to do for your motives however. You agreed to their
rules when you started working there.

The modern solution to this is to bring your own bandwidth. i.e.
smartphone. It's more than fast enough to stream music now, on any of
the big four carriers. Many modern day smartphones can provide wifi
that your ipod touch can consume, and there are standalone devices
cheaper than a smartphone with cheaper plans that only provide mobile
wifi.

[ax0n]

And for courtesy's sake, use headphones. I generally agree with Billy on other peoples' music. A decade ago, I had to share a cube with someone who refused to wear headphones, and absolutely had to listen to (and sing along with) the most aggravating "music" possible while working. Most of the cubicle Nerf Wars at that place started with me plugging him point blank in the back of the head.

[James Costello]

As a corollary to that be aware of your own singing and foot tapping.

[Ryan Trinder]

"And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will always love youuuuuuuuuuuuu" will not only get you kicked in the balls but pandora and last.fm banned.

On Dec 5, 2010 8:09 AM, "James Costello" <genes...@gmail.com> wrote:

As a corollary to that be aware of your own singing and foot tapping.

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[XeroX]

Thanks for the info. I am a fan of employment, and this isn't that
serious of an issue to push forward. On the flip-side of things, when
I was confronted with the fact I wasn't allowed to do something
online, thats legit, a small part of me wanted to do it that much
more. I think that runs in all of us here, but again not worth trying
to explain why I got pink-slipped. Thanks again.

[XeroX]

Also, with the mention of DJ podcasts, any recommendations?

[ax0n]

Really depends on what kinds of electronic music you like. People who like progressive trance (seems to be what most people are calling "techno" these days. Don't get me started on genre bastardization) might like the Perfecto Podcast (Oakenfold) and A State Of Trance (Armin van Buuren) for example. Maybe browse this list?
http://bestdjpodcasts.com/

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:37 AM, XeroX <xero...@gmail.com> wrote:

Also, with the mention of DJ podcasts, any recommendations?

[Daryl Fallin]

I don't advise using this at work, but I created a java client that will create an SSH tunnel to a server that has a proxy server running on it.  This will proxy through corporate proxy servers, like blue coat and allow you to connect to your home or other remote ssh server on the Internet.  From there if you have a squid proxy running on that server it will proxy all your traffic to 127.0.0.1:3128 (or other port you define) to your home (remote) server.

http://www.liberterra.com/?p=5

Of course you can do the same thing with putty or other ssh client with port forwarding rules, but this client simplifies the process and doesnt require anything to be installed.

[Luis E. Rodriguez]

Sounds like any sort or circumvention will land you with being canned. I would just load up the iPod touch or get a wireless 3g/4g and use your own hotspot. Not sure if you have a phone capable of this. One reason I love my iPhone apps. If something isn't working over wifi I switch to 3G.

Luis E. Rodriguez

[Toast]

I just setup ampache this weekend.  After getting downsampling working, there's 0 lag and the sound quality is just as good as pandora (imho).  Plays nice with my pre, and i'm pretty sure all traffic is rolling over port 80.

Once nice thing is the ability to choke it's bandwidth.  If the reason your being blocked is bandwidth consumption, this allows you to play nice.

[XeroX]

I would setup some sort of SSH or VPN or the ampache, but due to my
limited bandwidth (24k) the idea of an enjoyable Pandora experiance
seems out of reach. I can provide myself with a hotspot with my G1
while I'm in a 3g/hspa area, but over the weekend I was asked to help
someone else with a similar conundrum but they lack a data connection
of any kind on their cell phone. At the end of the day, we are still
talking about iPods whose primary function is a portable storage media
player. Again thanks for the suggestions, and I do plan on playing
around with setting up a VPN just to see if I can.