[Banshee-List] How about a Pandora plugin?

[Aleksander Helgaker <aleksander helgaker yahoo co uk>]

I was wondering if it's at all possible for someone to make a Pandora plugin for Banshee which lets us listen to the Pandora music service through Banshee.

For those who are not familiar with Pandora, it's a free, and legal, online music player which you can use to listen to a huge archive of popular music. The only catch is, you don't have 100% control over what you listen to, which is great because you get to hear great artists you've never heard of before. Pandora is located at www.pandora.com. The way it works is that you enter the name of an artist you like. The first track it plays is then a song by that artist or band, after which you get music from other similar bands with music it thinks you might like. It's a brilliant service. But to be legal, there's a limit to how and what can be played. You can't replay a track you just heard and you can't skip more than a certain amount of tracks within an hour. Also they provide links to amazon for purchasing the song
 where they get commission. I listen to this service all the time. More than I listen to my own music. It's like radio channel, but they play music specially chosen for you, and the tracks are played uninterrupted.

I've seen programs for windows that lets you listen to the channel, but it wasn't really legal because it copied the songs off the server onto the hard disk, so I went back to using the online version.

If it's possible, I think this would be a great plugin. Maybe Pandora would be willing to cooperate with Banshee in making this. I'm sure they wouldn't mind as long as the "Purchase from Amazon" link is still in there. They live off the commissions after all.

The plugin would display the currently playing track, the option to vote on the track, skip a track, etc, just like the online player.

So, to see how the online version works, take a look at www.pandora.com.

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