The free streaming service Pandora has firmly established itself on the US market as a personalizable Internet radio with excellent music suggestions. The service is currently not available in other regions. However, Pandora can also be used free of charge in Germany via a detour. We’ll explain how it works.
Unlike on-demand services such as Spotify or Apple Music, Pandora is an Internet radio that creates personalized radio stations based on bands or genres selected by the user. With a rating system, stations can be further customized during playback. Pandora will impress you in this process with its particularly suitable and equally creative suggestions. Compared to the free offers from Spotify and Co, Pandora also manages with very little advertising.
Since music streaming requires very little bandwidth compared to video retrieval, Pandora can also be accessed from a computer, smartphone or tablet using less powerful VPN services. You can find out which free and paid VPN providers are available to you from our list of the best.
Until 2007, the use of Pandora was open to a worldwide audience. Since then, many years have passed in which the service grew strongly in the USA, but was no longer available in Germany. Traveling Americans and co. also access Pandora from Germany via a VPN connection. While some additional hurdles have to be overcome for use on smartphones and tablets in addition to the VPN connection, the service can be accessed with certain devices even without a VPN tool. Everything worth knowing about Pandora access from Germany can be read below.
US-IP with VPN service of choice
The key to success in accessing Pandora is always a US IP address. These addresses are obtained using a US VPN server, which you can access using the VPN tool of your choice. Unlike many video streaming services such as Netflix, our experience is that Pandora does not try to block VPN users. This means you can use any VPN server of your choice and don’t have to worry that the IP address is on a blacklist of blocked servers at Pandora.
Browser access
With an active VPN connection, access to “pandora.com” is possible without being blocked by georestriction. Without registration you can already access radio streams based on the sound of your favorite artists. However, we recommend an optional registration, as your ratings will be saved and the radio will be better tuned to your taste with increasing time.
Registering with Pandora
All you need to do to register is enter your e-mail address and password. In addition, you must enter your year of birth and a US ZIP code (postal code). The five-digit ZIP code is used to personalize advertising and corresponds to your place of residence or holiday in the USA.
Use on iPhone and iPad
To use the Pandora app under iOS, you must register for an iTunes US account free of charge. You will then be able to access the US App Store via iPhone and iPad without any problems. If you have opened the US version of the Apple App Store on your iOS device, you can download the app “Pandora Music” from the developer “Pandora Media Inc.” there for free.
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No VPN connection is required to access the US App Store and download the Pandora App. However, before you open the installed Pandora App, you will need to use a VPN app to obtain a US IP address. The stream is ready to begin. The registration information is the same as in the previous section.
Use under Android
The easiest way for Android users to download the Pandora app is to use the App Store integrated into the Amazon app. The region can also be converted to the USA using a German Amazon account. The Pandora app can then be downloaded without any problems. Alternatively, experienced users can download the Pandora App’s APK file from the source of their choice. A VPN connection is required again to use the app.