Comments on: OpenPandora: put Pandora on your desktop

By: cory

cory — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:31:51 +0000

thanks man. this is exactly what I was looking for and its great! looks just like pandora. and i like that it displays the name of the song at the top left of the window.

By: Rogerebert

Rogerebert — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:35:41 +0000

I’ve been using this for almost 2 years now. But with stiff competition from slacker, and grooveshark the field is getting thick. Pandora has great variety if you like all types of music but repeats a lot for those with limited taste.

By: CT

CT — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:50:46 +0000

Brilliant!
I *LOVE* Pandora, and have discovered a lot of great music because of their Free service – Name an Artist or Song you like, it plays other Music with similar Sounds or Style – No-Registration to ‘Test Drive’, the Audio Quality is Good – TRY IT!
Note – Only a limited number of ‘Skips’ per hour, but seldom am issue!

By: Sal Monella

Sal Monella — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:27:56 +0000

Pandora is one of the greatest online radio streaming sites around, along with Slacker.com. OpenPandora really makes Pandora more like a service than a website. OpenPandora is nice, but hopefully they will expand on it in the future.

By: Samer

Samer — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:40:10 +0000

@Chad: for instructions on how you might use it outside the US, check out this link: http://openpandora.blogspot.com/2007/06/complete-guide-for-using-openpandora.html

@Dimension-X: I’m not sure if you’re criticizing Pandora or the OpenPandora client, but I personally hold both in great esteem.

The option to buy songs is built into Pandora (just as if you were to use it within your browser). It goes to fund Pandora, not OpenPandora.

I personally like Pandora because it is a fantastic music recommendation engine based on some nifty technology. It’s also free. In my view Pandora is the best of web radio, and as such is worth the resource expenditure. The playback quality is very good; I suggest you simply try it out at http://www.Pandora.com without having to install anything (though you will have to create an account).

You can’t rewind or jump to the middle, but of course you CAN skip at will, which I might not have stated clearly in my review. Again this a function of Pandora not OpenPandora. I always thought that the reasons for this might have to do with copyright issues, but somebody please enlighted me if you know the reason.

As for the Ipod analogy; Pandora, unlike the Ipod, is a free service.

By: Dimension-X

Dimension-X — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:22:43 +0000

12 MB for this is not low. And 60 MB maximized is definitely bloated. And the option to instantly buy songs via link makes me wonder who’s behind this. No rewind. No skip. Come on, that sucks. Looks rather like a social networking plaything with low playback quality. Well anyway, I can just not figure out why people like stuff like this. But then I also never quite understood why people like the iPod when there are better sounding devices with more options out there. Beats me, really.

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:57:16 +0000

Sadly, due to licensing constraints, Pandora can no longer allow access for listeners located outside of the U.S.