Jailbreak Only: Pandora Hack Kills Skip Limits
October 24, 2010
Pandora Radio is one of the greatest apps out there. This service allows you to listen to an unlimited number of songs, smartly based on your musical taste. It has brought a whole new dimension to music listening since its arrival on iOS. Unfortunately, as is often the case with online music and video content, it has some limitations.
There is the fact that you can't listen to exactly the song you want, or go backwards, but these are not that important. The main annoyance is that, because of their licensing contracts, you can only skip just so many songs on Pandora. Then, once you've skipped through more than a few songs you didn't like, you're stuck and forced to listen to whatever came up. If you're a regular Pandora user, you know what I'm talking about.
Well, there is some good news, as some smart folks from the jailbreak scene have found a way around this. Their hack, which will put you in complete violation of Pandora's terms of use, allows you to skip as many songs as you want. As a sidenote, it also kills the ads, which is unnecessary, as I believe it prevents this great service from earning some cash. Nevertheless, unlimited ability to skip songs is a very neat thing to have.
It works really well, and, it's free. So if morality is not your main concern, make sure to give it a try. It's called Pandora Skip Hack, it works with the latest version of Pandora and it's available on the cydevice repo. Here is its address:
http://cydia.cydevice.netAlso, the folks from iPoduplink put together a little walkthrough on how to install it, in case you need something more visual:
