Pandorium: Pandora done right!
If you guys have been keeping up with my twitter, you’ve known about my work on Pandorium. Well a long time later (but surprisingly only a couple days of work later), i’m ready to release an initial version.
It’s essentially a wrapper for Pandora.com, it keeps it as a stand-a-lone app, and adds Apple Media Key support. This is more a temporary fix as I hope Pandora makes a native Mac app that has Media Key support, don’t like running Flash (and refuse to instal AIR) but I needed Media Key support.
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works fine |
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works fine, no way to detect when you hit skip limit right now, not a problem if you have a Pandora One subscription though |
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does nothing because there’s no similar button in Pandora, thinking of using this to change station if it’s possible |
Current Issues: (Restart will fix all of these)
- The method used to get the Media Keys right now isn’t being that reliable, either that or something else is causing an issue, but after a while iTunes will take the keys back and they won’t work for Pandorium
- It isn’t setup to draw it correctly every time the window is activated, so it can show up with the left half white sometimes
- Not meant for prolonged use, I left it on for a while, came back and it was eating up 300% of my cpu (well flash was, what do you expect though……….)
Contributions/To-Do:
- I’m not a designer so if any designer wants to spend a few minutes and make a better menu bar icon, that would be kindly appreciated, I can let you use the Pandora logo font (MrsEavesSmallCaps) if you don’t have it, email me: gauravk92@gmail.com
- Wanted to add applescript support for
tell application "com.gkapps.Pandorium" to deactivate
more for personal reasons though
Source is up at github, submit bug reports there. Download the packaged app below if you don’t care about the source.
