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Pandora Widget

Pandora Widget - 1.0.2

widget for Pandora Internet radio station

All Time: (3.8)
This Version: (3.0)
Current Version: 1.0.2
Release Date: 2006-07-21
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 6,921
Downloads (all versions): 8,951

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Product Description:

You might not have heard of Pandora, a personalized streaming music service. The cool thing about Pandora, besides the fact that it's free, is that its music recommendations are based on actual musical analysis (e.g. "vocal harmony, mild rhythmic syncopation, acoustic rhythm piano, major key tonality"), not just artist and genre. Pandora comes from the Music Genome Project.

Well, I made a Dashboard widget for Pandora.

Caveats (not my fault): 1) Dashboard in Tiger doesn't pass events through to Flash applets very reliably (it's a known issue), so it's can be hard to click on things (try clicking in rapid succession). But it plays music fine. It's probably easier to set up your account and music preferences in your web browser first, and then just use the widget for listening to music (think: "It shuffles music for you"). 2) Pandora takes a while to load (like 10 seconds).

What's new in this version:

Minor update due to Pandora system changes.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating: (3.0) Features: (2.5) Support: (2.0)
Ease of Use: (3.0) Quality / Stability: (2.5) Price: (3.0)
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Pandora Widget ReviewJunque... don't bother - Version: 1.0.2, 12/27/2007 06:59AM PST

Fast Eddy
I should have listened to the other reviewers. This widget is clunky, and doesn't work consistently. The Pandora concept is a great one, but this implementation is terrible!! If I use the "Pause" function, the whole frame goes blank and won't come back. The buttons have poor response and need to be clicked multiple times to react. The frame takes up 20% of my screen (15 inch Macbook Pro), mostly with advertising and other unnecessary junk (it's basically the same screen as the browser window). I understand the need for advertising, there has to be some way to pay for the music, but this implementation is not the way to do it.
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Pandora Widget ReviewGreat Addon - Version: 1.0.2, 12/3/2007 05:16PM PST

zakpak23
I'm using this in Mac OSX 10.5 (aka Leopard) and have to say I love it. I listened to Pandora on my PC for almost a year and was disappointed to find out that the player wouldn't auto-advance unless it had it's own window or was the active tab in Safari. This widget solves that problem. The addon does take up a large portion of the dashboard, but I don't mind. The ads were present in the browser form, so those aren't anything new.

Great job.
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Pandora Widget Usage TipPandora Widget - Version: 1.0.2, 2/22/2007 11:55AM PST

lionheart1
I am a Pandora addict and they don't seem to want to develope a User Friendly desktop widget or standalone player for the desktop..
I would love to try this but I am still using panther-10.3.9..and have no reason to Update to Tiger..
Help!!!
LionHeart1
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