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**1. Description

1. Requirements
2. How to use it?
3. Source Code
4. Licenses
5. Download**
   

1. Description

This program automatically closes the Saver2 application for 10 minutes every 4 hours to avoid your account to be blocked by the Pandora's website for several days. This temporary blacklisting could happen after too many hours of continuous listening. It happend to me, that's why I've started to develop this project ;)

Said shortly, Saver2 AutoRestart is a 'Pandora' anti-blacklist add-on for the Saver2 audio streaming client.

Saver2 AutoRestart is composed of 2 executable files that both keep running in the background, consuming a very little amount of your RAM memory:

• Saver2ARL.exe is the launcher that checks if all the required conditions are fulfilled, starts Saver2AR.exe then keeps running in background to provide a systray icon with a left-click menu;
• Saver2AR.exe stops **Saver2** for 10 minutes every 4 hours then restarts the player, it also informs user through systray tooltips when events occur*.

* Please find more details at the end of chapter 4

As explained by ZigZagJoe on his website: "Saver2 is for educational use only. Do not use the software in a way that would contravene any music copyright laws. Any information provided by this software is for educational purposes only. No function is implied or in any way guaranteed."

2. Requirements

The Saver2 AutoRestart applicatioon has to be installed in the same folder as Saver2 to work.

Thus it also implies that the Saver2 software has already been installed. Else if it isn't yet, go to RideTheClown.com to download the Saver2 Bundle, install it, test it then send a Paypal donation to support the author. Imagine if all the Saver2 users would have given at least one dollar to ZigZagJoe...

Note to the non-US resident users

Pandora is restricted to US residents but you should be able to listen to their channels anyway by using the TOR Network, a highly anonymousproxy server hosted on US territory, or a VPN solution such as HideMyAss.com or IPVanish.com (www.ipvanish.com). I personnally prefer IPVanish as it provides a very stable connection to lots of VPN servers in USA. HideMyAss.com also purposes some free proxy lists(https://hidemyass.com/vpn/), this lists will change everyday so you'll have to check it for some US Level 16 proxies regularly. Their premium feature allows you to receive the new proxies by email.

IPVanish is not free but really worth the cost. The TOR Network would be the most reliable free alternative to me but you'ld have to search a little bit more than IPVanish for the way to use it properly and integrate it to your browsers and network config (same for proxies if you don't know how to use it)... Anyway the TOR community is huge enough for you to easily find many user guides, tuts and forums to help you. In less than an hour anyone could understand the TOR principles, discover the community and make his network fully 'TORrific'!

3. How to use it?

After installing Saver2, double-click the newly created desktop icon named Pandora (Saver2).

Click to the Menu button at the bottom of the player, go to Configuration then check the following options in the Pandora > Common menu:

• Login automatically
• Launch automatically when SProxy is started
• Close SProxy when the client is closed

But keep disabled:

• Don't remember my login password (Required)
• Show tray balloon when a song is played for it to don't interfere with script's tray tips (Recommended)

Now click OK and close the player.

Install 'Saver2AutoRestart_setup.exe' to the Saver2 installation directory then double-click the new 'Saver2 AutoRestart' desktop icon. It will automatically launch Saver2.

From now you'll have to start the player by the 'Saver2 AutoRestart' desktop icon rather than 'Pandora (Saver2)'. And you should also close Saver2 with the system tray's icon menu.

4. Source Code

This little personal project has been developed and compiled with AutoIt and SciTE4AutoIt.

You can use one of the following solutions to easily edit the source *.AU3 files:

• [SciTE4AutoIt](http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit-script-editor/) a.k.a AutoIt Script Editor. Note that [SciTE](http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html) is the official Scintilla editor
• [Notepad++](http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)
• [Notepad2](http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html)
• other text editors with syntax highlighting feature may also be able to recognize the AutoIt language and scripts...

Note
This tool is badly coded by an AutoIt beginner. For example my first beta versions had a cool systray tooltip feature to let user know what's happening during the Saver2 AutoRestart tasks. But in spite of all my efforts and tests to properly integrate this feature to my code, I had to abandon as it was not working as expected.

For this reasons I've also shared my first tries in the source files.

So if you have any suggestions about how the code could be improved or some functions added, I would be glad to discuss it with you.

5. Licenses

Saver2 AutoRestart

Saver2 AutoRestart is an add-on by FenyX for the Saver2 application made by ZigZagJoe.

Saver2 AutoRestart isn't affiliated in any way nor with the Saver2 application, nor with ZigZagJoe, nor with the RideTheClown.com website.

The members of the official Saver2 project do not officially endorse or recommend the installation of any add-on, and cannot be held responsible for any problems or damages that arise from installing 3rd-party applications.

This software is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence version 3

NSIS icon

NSIS icon by MoNKi is used in the installer skin.
As a part of the NSIS project, the corresponding zlib/libpng licence is also applied to this icon.

Saver2 Icon

The Saver2 icon available at DeviantArt.com (fenyx93.deviantart.com) is composed by the 3 artworks below:
Yet Another Globe V2 by ~MazeNL77
Using it has been kindly authorized by the author in the icon's DeviantArt page comments
Workgroup icon and Wrench icon by Oxygen
The Creative Commons and LGPL licenses of the Oxygen icons theme can be read at the licence page of their website

Font

Xolonium font by Severin Meyer who specifies in his README file that this font is distributed under the GPL v2 License.

Metal Text Style

Metal Text Effect Style by Orman Clark
Free for use in both personal and commercial projects

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