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Pandora - music on AIR
June 05th 2008 | by James
Well what can I say about the new Pandora desktop application built with Adobe AIR ? Err not alot really because due to silly rights issues anyone outside of the US of A can’t access Pandora let alone the desktop app.
So if you have a few words and possibly a screenshot of the Pandora AIR application then send it over to me and i’ll post it up and give you full credit for helping a poor European developer out.
Update Thanks to Chris for sending me the screenshots.
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Michael Buckbee
It’s my understanding that Pandora’s ridiculous “geographical limitations” fall down pretty quick in the face of an openproxy server in the US. Just saying.
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Allen Shull
Just installed it. Sadly, I’d have to give this one quite a knock. As far as I can tell, it just uses the built-in Webkit to display the Pandora website. That’s it. Seriously. It’s a window with normal WinXP decorations, and a scrollbar on the left. If I wanted this bottom-of-the-barrel functionality, I’d use XULRunner/Prism.
...Now I’m just waiting for this song to finish so I can uninstall it. Even with being less-than-impressed, Pandora is a good site with nice, intuitive functionality. This just isn’t a Pandora app—it’s a Pandora-website-viewing-app. And I’ve already got Firefox.
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James
Michael, I gave up trying to find a proxy that worked thanks anyway.
Allen, thanks for the overview, doesn’t sound great to me. That’s what AIR apps are not for, packaging up a website for the desktop. You’re correct if you wanted that then Prism would be one solution.
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peter
guys – check out pandoraboy if you have a mac and if you’re outside the US try witopia.net for a very cost effective VPN service.
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puhsitch
On the plus side, you can close the window and just control stuff by right-clicking on the application in OS X’s dock. That’s fine enough for me.
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