About

I am a huge fan and daily listener of the Pandora Radio web service. However, I must admit that I find their current flash based radio player to be too heavy for my needs and being a heavy web user, I prefer to have Pandora running in it its own application window. Finding no free application available that fulfills this need, I decided to pursue writing a quick and, simple desktop application to access the pandora service.

At the moment, this application implements most of the useful functionality found in the Pandora radio web player and the current version now includes the ability to play, skip, save and rate songs.

On the rare occasion that you experience playback issues, you can reload the player by selecting Reload Pandora from the menu.


Requirements

Pandora Desktop Client requires the Java runtime to be installed and it runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.


Download

Get Pandora Desktop Client for Windows XP / Vista / 7 , Mac OS X 10.4+ or Linux . FYI On Linux you will need to open the application by running
"java -jar PandoraDesktopClientv1.0.jar" from the terminal.

In case, it is not obvious, this application is in no way affiliated or related to Pandora

Version History

  • Version 1.0 (6/13/12) : fix station playback issues
  • Version 0.9 (6/2/12/): convert to using pandora's JSON API
  • Version 0.8 (4/28/12) : added compatibility with updated Pandora service
  • Version 0.7 (1/15/12) : added compatibility with updated Pandora service
  • Version 0.6 (1/6/12) : added compatibility with updated Pandora service
  • Version 0.5 (11/24/11) : added compatibility with updated Pandora service
  • Version 0.4 (9/23/11) : added compatibility with updated Pandora service
  • Version 0.3 (9/11/11) : added rating of songs
  • Version 0.2 (9/1/11) : initial public release
  • Version 0.1 (8/21/11) : initial private beta release

Feedback

If you find a bug, dig this app or have feature suggestion(s) please let me know by sending an email to jervisfm at gmail dot com.

Pandora Java Desktop Client