OpenPandora rocks

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OpenPandora rocks

by Jordan Running (RSS feed) Oct 23rd 2006 at 5:31PM

So I talk enough about Pandora, the free web-based music recommendation engine and player that I seriously love. But I missed the boat when I didn't try out OpenPandora sooner. OpenPandora is a free third-party Windows app that, in a nutshell, turns the ordinarily browser-bound Pandora into something more like a full-fledged desktop media player. Okay, so not exactly full-fledged--you're still limited to the songs the Pandora server feeds you--but OpenPandora adds a ton of features that make Pandora that much more enjoyable to use. First and foremost, it wraps the player up in a window that can be minimized to the tray, which is a trick we've seen before, but a great trick nevertheless. But it gets way more interesting than that. OpenPandora also has a "Mini Player" mode that condenses the player to the basic controls (unfortunately thumbs-up and thumbs-down aren't among them) to get it out of your way. You can also control all of its functions by right-clicking on its title bar or tray icon. It has a function for copying the current artist and song title to the clipboard, and to run a lyrics search in your browser. It's has integration with Windows Live Messenger and Xfire, as well as Last.fm. You can control it with a standard multimedia keyboard or enable global keyboard shortcuts (I'm hoping someone hooks it up to FoxyTunes soon), and it has proxy support. OpenPandora is under active development and you can keep tabs on it at the OpenPandora blog.

Tags: desktop, free, freeware, music, openpandora, pandora, windows

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lilpunk1302 said 12:24AM on 10-24-2006

OMG, dis is like awesome, but wen it said tray icon, i thought it was like a toolbar, it'd be nice to get a toolbar for dis

Danny said 11:41AM on 10-24-2006

OpenPandora DOES rock. I'm a huge fan.

Duarte Teixeira said 5:39PM on 12-17-2006

This piece of software deserves an award! It's super, mega, hyper brilliant!!

keep the good work boys!

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