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OK, so it's big news that Pandora now has all this tie-in to "the social" (a phrase that is so bad, but gets such attention that it's doing it's job). Since they've "joined the social" and welcomed many with their ever-cool Pandora streaming custom radio service, their deal with Slim (recently purchased by Logitech), and now this new thing where you can get some socialization features (a la similar to Last.fm), there's something even cooler for those of us that want to walk away with a little music too.

Check out the coolness of Pandora's Jar: Windows only.

You can save streaming Pandora tracks as MP3s with Pandora's Jar, which is a cool new Java-based utility. It has a little bit more finese than the other popular 3tunes, a similar program. Pandora's Jar has an interface (unlike 3tunes), and one that appends itself to the Pandora player (which, in and of itself, is kind of neat). You can save your currently playing tracks with just a click of the "Grab This Track" option, or enable "cruise control" to save all tracks automatically.

Pandora's Jar can also optionally integrate with last.fm (which, to me is almost redundant, but is neat to share your stuff from one place - and maybe I'll turn my last.fm thingy on again) to fetch artist bios, track stats, album art, and other info. There's even an option to automatically add saved tunes to your iTunes library, which, to me, is a serious plus since that's where I keep all of my stuff. Then you can use iScroggler (or whatever it's called) to pick up your changes to iTunes from Pandora's Jar and send them to Last.fm. Whoa! Circular reference!

[Via: TechCrunch]