Pandorian v2.9.6

Pandorian is a simple & elegant desktop client for Pandora, featuring ad-free listening, unlimited song skips, playback history, proxy support and a host of other features to make your Pandora listening experience stress-free and enjoyable...

Main Features:

• No advertisements!
• Unlimited song skips
• Play back previous songs
• Seek/ Change play position of current song (Click on song progress bar)
• Proxy support for unsupported countries
• Pre-fetching of upcoming song for instant playback
• Export MP3 of currently playing song when streaming in 192k (press CTRL+D)
• User configurable sytem-wide Hot-Keys (Right-click on album cover to access)
• Like/ Dislike songs
• Block a song for a month/ Tired of song
• Gobal menu for quick actions and song info
• Password protected Lock-Screen with album art and song info
• Minimize to tray
• Quick song info panel (Hover mouse pointer over tray icon)
• BPM detection of current song
• Sleep Timer (Right-click on album cover to access)
• Volume normalizing with ReplayGain
• Volume control with hotkeys & slider (Right-click on song progress bar to show)
• Choose streaming audio quality
• Supports Free Pandora accounts
• Supports Pandora Plus accounts for higher audio quality & MP3 export
• Highly optimized communication with Pandora servers
• Built-in proxy enabled browser to manage stations using Pandora website
• See what the app is doing behind the scenes (press CTRL+ALT+L)

Requirements:

• MS Windows
• MS .Net Framework 2.0
• Proxy server account (only if your country is not supported)
• Pandora account (either free or pandora plus)

Credits:

• PandoraMusicBoxEngine
• BASS

Support/Feedback:

If you need support or would like to send some feedback, please create a new issue here

Work In Progress

v2.9.7

• Enable user to disable song info buble

Release History

v2.9.6

• Window position is remembered across app restarts
• Multi monitor window positioning support
• Song and playback duration info can be toggled by clicking on album cover

v2.9.5

• Fixed file locking and app freezing issue related to cover images
• Volume level is now persisted across app restarts
• Other minor code improvements

v2.9.4

• Fixed album cover of last song flashing for a moment before loading a new cover image.
• Moved pre-fetch trigger point to 70% of playing song.
• New setting for disablling song pre-fetching for users with poor internet connectivity

v2.9.3

• Fetch new songs/playlist asynchronously around 80% mark of last song of playlist to enable instant playback of next song
• Download next song's audio and album asynchronously at 80% mark of current song to enable instant playback of next song
• Handle occasional inconsistencies of pandora playlist contents after reaching skip limit for a station
• Replay current song if/when pandora throws "INSUFFICIENT_CONNECTIVITY" or "APPLICATION_ERROR" codes ocassionally

v2.9.2

• Fixed index out of bounds error after cache invalidation

v2.9.1

• Invalidate old cache files which may not be compatible with v2.9

v2.9

• Station playlists and history is now preserved across re-logins caused by session expiry
• Better handling of album cover art
• Better handling of expired song urls resulting in reduced fetching delays
• Fixed a playlist history bug which tried to play expired songs
• Prevent last song from replaying after a session expiration
• Proper disposal of cache files to reduce disk space usage
• Resume audio stream after closing station manager window
• Hourglass no longer gets stuck with prolonged hotkey usage
• Ability to cancel changes to hotkeys
• Prevent assignment of same hotkey to multiple functions
• Hotkey changes become effective immediately. No need to restart app
• Misc. performance improvements

v2.8.3

• Fix: progress bar not showing up when exporting
• Fix: handling of song cover art
• Improvement: pre-fetching of next song's cover art
• Misc: other minor fixes and code refactorings

v2.8.2

• New: ability to seek (change play position) of current song - click on song progress bar
• New: setting to disable BPM counter
• Fix: app hang due to cross-thread access of progress bars
• Fix: delayed display of album cover when coming back from tray minimization
• Improvement: better handling of net connectivity issues

v2.8.1

• New: streamlined installation and upgrade process
• New: offline caching of album art for historical playback
• Fix: unable to export previously played track
• Fix: lock screen album art not updating ocassionally
• Change: windows temp folder is now used for cache

v2.8

• New: skip back to previously played songs
• New: change audio quality in settings without causing a re-login to pandora. Simply change quality and close the settings window without hitting apply.
• New: offline caching of previous tracks now enable instant replay of tracks, faster app launches and station changes.
• Improvements: major overhaul of internals to support historical playback

v2.7.2

• Settings are now retained across app updates and uninstalls
• New settings for disabling QuickMix stations and Liked song indicators
• Revambed settings window with new behavior
• Apply an arbitrary value of -5.55 dB for trackings missing ReplayGain values.
• Other minor fixes and improvements

v2.7.1

• Added audio stream download progress indicator at bottom of window
• Revamped MP3 export functionality due to new Pandora restrictions. For CTRL+D to export the currently playing song, you must now have a Pandora Plus subscription and select "High (192k)" quality in settings.
• New hourglass graphic for loading/ waiting view
• BASS updates and other performance improvements

v2.7

• Added 128k MP3 audio streaming support
• QuickMix stations are now indicated by a ✪ next to station name
• Better indication of liked/thumbed up songs. A ✔ is shown next to track title
• Fixed built-in station manager/browser to support new pandora website
• Better handling of system shutdowns
• Misc. bugfixes and improvements

v2.6

• Pandora Plus support added (unlimited skips)
• BASS binaries updated to latest
• Several minor changes and fixes

v2.5.1

• Completely revamped tray icon song info panel
• Minor code changes

v2.4.1.1

• Show song/station info on tray icon hover
• Updated bass libraries to the latest
• Minor bug fixes

v2.4

• Automatic BPM detection of playing song (click on album cover to display)
• Minor bug fixes

v2.3

• Minor fixes and modifications
• Added setup downloads for both 32bit and 64bit windows

v2.2.1.1

• Fixed sleep/wake issue (only applicable to machines with vmware vnet adapters)

v2.2

• Improved accuracy of volume normalizing
• Use bass DSP instead of bass FX for volume management
• Removed bass_fx.dll dependancy from project
• Removed unused volume normalizing code

v2.1

• Increased level of logging
• Improvements to song progress bar updating
• Event based updating of lock-screen song info instead of timer based
• Threaded/background downloading of album cover art
• Minor fixes and performance improvements

v2.0.0.8

• Major overhaul of inner workings to optimize communication with pandora servers
• Save/restore session and station playlists across app restarts & sleep/wake cycles
• New graphic buttons
• See what the app is doing behind the scene by pressing CTRL+ALT+L
• Various minor bug fixes & performance improvements

v1.8.2

• Better handling of expired song URLs with prolonged use
• Other minor code changes

v1.8.1.3

• Reduced calls to Pandora API by 50%
• Song loading speed increased
• Fixed lock-screen info not updating sometimes
• Fixed issue with volume hotkeys

v1.8

• Upgraded bass binaries to latest
• Volume control with hotkeys & slider (click on song progress bar to show slider)
• Minor code changes

v1.7.9

• Restore last song if needed after an app restart to help with skip limits
• Fix mouse pointer not showing after resume from sleep
• Show current date & time on lock-screen
• Save skip history before sleeping in case power is lost during sleep

v1.7.8

• Hide mouse pointer on lock-screen by default
• Show mouse pointer on lock-screen when global menu is visible
• Various internal improvements to lock-screen
• Store lock-screen password as a one-way encrypted string
• Warn user when trying to lock the screen with a blank password

v1.7.7

• Password proteced lock-screen with album art and song info
• Use ping instead of webclient to check net connectivity
• Various minor bug fixes and improvements

v1.7.6

• Better handling of 42sec blank audio for free a/c holders
• Inform free users about excessive skipping punishment

v.1.7.5

• Better handling to avoid song duplication
• Fix fb share screen nagging if chosen no
• Fix error when trying to dislike/block a song when skip limit is reached
• User configurable hotkeys

v1.7.4

• Secure storage of passwords
• Improvements to settings window behavior

Note: uninstall, then reinstall to clear out old settings if problems occur

v1.7.3

• Show/hide global menu by pressing: ALT+M
• Display station/song/artist seperately in global menu
• Enable/disable tray menu items appropriately

v1.7.2

• Add a confirmation dialog to sleep on demand function
• Click to copy song info to clipboard in tray icon menu
• Fix bug causing error when skipping songs with hotkey

v1.7.1

• Fix issue with minimize to tray

v1.7

• Right-click tray icon menu for main functions
• Better error handling
• Enabled reporting of errors
• Enabled station change after an error

v1.6.6

• Minimize to tray
• Sleep/wake enhancements
• Several minor bug fixes and improvements

v1.6.5

• Better error handling
• Auto re-login to pandora when session expires
• Fix missing ampersand from text labels

v1.6.4

• Automatic update checking on startup

v1.6.3

• Fixed all sleep/wake issues

v1.6.2

• Show stream bitrate instead of high/low in settings
• Made station selector and buttons a bit more touch friendly
• Added a sleep timer function
• Added global hotkey to put system to sleep (ALT+ESC)
• Proper handling of system sleep event by external sources
• User interface modifications

v1.5.3

• Enable listening without using a proxy
• Don't count a skip if the current song has been in a paused state and song duration has elapsed.

v1.5.2.2

• Enforce total skips per day for free users to 24 to prevent 40sec blank audio.

v1.5.2.1

• Prevent app from crashing after pandora sending blank audio tracks.

v1.5.2

• Added system-wide hotkeys for main functions
  • Play/Pause Current Song: ALT + SPACE
  • Like Current Song: ALT + L
  • Dislike Current Song: ALT + D
  • Skip Current Song: ALT + S
  • Block Current Song: ALT + B
  • Show/Hide Pandorian: ALT + P

v1.5.1

• Minor bug fixes and improvements

v1.5

• Added support for Pandora One accounts

v.1.4.3

• Added two new items to the right click menu
  • Check for an update
  • Show current version

v1.4.2

• Reduced calls to pandora by implementing a playlist per station

v1.4.1

• Remember song skips across app restarts

v1.4

• Right click on album cover to:
  • Manage Station
  • Show Settings

v1.3

• Engine converted to vb
• Swapped out blowfish procedures
• Moved dll locations
• Better handling of missing album cover art
• General bug fixes and code clean up

v1.2

• Select streaming audio quality

v1.1

• Several major bug fixes and performance improvements

v1.0

• Initial release