Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Pandora??

[Mister Ribble <ender27182818 gmail com>]

I highly doubt Pandora will every let anyone develop an app that streams
their music without some very strict control over ad placement - they
are an add-supported service, and therefore generally against giving
their music out to anyone. The only reason the iPhone has a Pandora app
is because 1 - they're Apple and 2 - they can still show ads.

-Eli Ribble

On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 19:47 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:17:50PM -0700, TwstdElf wrote:
> > Hey there,
> > 
> > I have recently installed Linux Mint, and am very happy with it so far. It came with Gnome, and thus Rhythmbox as the default music player. I see that there is a Last.fm plugin, which is cool. But I am primarily a Pandora (pandora.com) user, and have spent years "tuning my stations" within it.
> 
> Rhythmbox has no support for Pandora in any way.  Pandora is only available within
> the US, and all of the current Rhythmbox developers live elsewhere.
>  
> > I am very mucy hoping that there is a way of using Pandora with Rhythmbox, but some googling yeilded fairly useless results, here is what I *do* get:
> > 
> > - With the url set to "http://www.pandora.com"; I get this message:
> > "A text/html decoder plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed."
> > I have tried searching for such a plugin with no luck.
> 
> Of course that isn't going to work.  You can't convert HTML into audio.
>  
> > - With the url set to the actual swf path, which is:
> > "https://www.pandora.com:443/radio/tuner_8_8_0_1_pandora.swf";,
> > I get:
> > "Element doesn't implement handling of this stream. Please file a bug."
> 
> That isn't going to work either.  That's probably just a flash player for the mp3
> stream.
>  
> > I am wondering if this is fixable, or if I should try moving over to Banshee or something??
> 
> If Pandora has a public API and allows applications to play streams, then someone
> could write a plugin to do so.
> 
> Banshee doesn't support Pandora either, as far as I can tell.
> 
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