Question: musicToken returned from addSeed/getStation

[anonpenguin]

I noticed that music.addSeed / station.getStation in the Stations API return a hex-encrypted musicToken:

{
    "stat": "ok",
    "result": {
        "artistName": "Foo Fighters",
        "musicToken": "3bcf3f314419f974",
        "seedId": "2123197691273031149",
        "artUrl": "http://cont-dc6-1.pandora.com/images/public/amg/portrait/pic200/drP900/P972/P97242B3S6P.jpg"
    }
}

This doesn't seem to be the same musicToken as the one returned from music.search, i.e. when you try to use it toe create a new station you get an error. I tried decrypting it with the passwords from Partner passwords, but it looks like it's returning mostly junk bytes.

Any idea what this could be/how to decrypt it?

[PromyLOPh]

Encrypting the musicToken doesn’t make sense. It’s probably just a hex-encoded integer value. I don’t know why this musicToken is different from those returned by music.search and what it is used for.

[JasonLG1979]

The musicToken returned from a search is actually a musicId. As in just like the musicId's returned in the songs in a playlist. AFAIK the only way to get the musicToken(again really a musicId) from the seeds is to do a search on the seed's description in the above case "Foo Fighters" you would use that musicToken to create your new station. But before you create your new station you'd have to delete the seed from the other station. You can't have 2 stations with the same seed. If you want the actual musicToken of a song in a playlist you can use it's musicId with music.getTrack. music.getTrack will get you a musicToken for the song that's comparable to the musicToken's returned in the station seeds.