Pandora Internet Radio Plugin Vote

[afidel]

If anyone has sufficient programming skills there is already a C# based program that wraps up pandora into a tray applet. It shouldn't be too much work to turn it into a mediaportal addon but I don't have the skill (I realized after 2 years of CS that I had the skill to do scripting level programming and was much more natural as a sysadmin). The app source is at http://openpandora.googlecode.com/sv...k/OpenPandora/

[moiristo]

It sucks that the whole thing is undocumented, but I think that with some effort it can be done. Most important I think is to understand how Player.cs works...I saw a lot of javascript code analyzes in there while browsing through it

[Wormfishin]

Try http://www.cfdan.com/index.cfm?tag=Pandoras%20Box

[afidel]

Another approach would be to use the XML generated by Pandora for blogs and consume it to make a list page that then loads the target in an iframe with some javascript to catch the esc key which depending on if an iframe is open will either close the iframe or close the plugin. You'd simply need to use this javascript

function lookupEmail(form) {
	var emailAddress = $("input[@name=email]", form).val();
	if (emailAddress != "enter email address" && emailAddress.length > 0) {
		if (cache[emailAddress] == null) {
			jQuery.getJSON(
				"/services/ajax/",
				{ method : "authenticate.emailToWebname", email : emailAddress },
				function(json) {
					if (json.stat == "ok") {
						cache[emailAddress] = json.result.webname;
						showFeed(form, json.result.webname);
					} else {
						showError(form, "ERROR: Could not find email address");
					}
				}
			);
		} else {
			showFeed(form, cache[emailAddress]);
		}
	} else {
		alert("Please enter your email address.");
	}
}

from http://www.pandora.com/feeds

to generate a URL in the form http://feeds.pandora.com/feeds/people/<username>/stations.xml?max=<1-100>
which is an rss which lists the users current n channels.

This would even be kosher because the iframe would include the ads so pandora doesn't lose any ad revenue.

[Wormfishin]

Originally Posted by afidel

Another approach would be to use the XML generated by Pandora for blogs

This sounds good to me, would it be possible to use a remote control then to thumb up or down songs?

[afidel]

Originally Posted by Wormfishin

This sounds good to me, would it be possible to use a remote control then to thumb up or down songs?

It should be, you'd need to send + and - for whatever keys were defined for the remote in the plugin section of the mapping area of MP, I'm not sure what would be good defaults for this to work with the widest array of input devices.

[The_Stig]

This has been discussed several times. Biggest problem was that due to copyright-issues this was limited to US only. Is that not the case anymore?

And to the limitations of last.fm: If you guys do tagging it gets better by the minute :-)

[afidel]

Originally Posted by The_Stig

This has been discussed several times. Biggest problem was that due to copyright-issues this was limited to US only. Is that not the case anymore?

And to the limitations of last.fm: If you guys do tagging it gets better by the minute :-)

It's still the case but there are posted methods for using tor to get the the site from outside the US.
http://openpandora.blogspot.com/2007...enpandora.html

[tonyscha]

I just discovered Pandora... Is there any hint of progress on this plugin or is it dead...

[peege3]

It seems like there was some good thinking going here and then all of the sudden nothing. Given that enough people have expressed interest in this, and I would too for that matter, I wonder if anyone is still interested in taking this project on?
So I guess you could call this a bump.