Pandora Releases an AIR Application

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Pandora is one of my favorite music services. They’ve got a great library and it’s an excellent way to discover music. They also have (I think) one of the larger user bases for online music. But I’d gotten so used to having my music outside the browser that I hadn’t listened to them in a while. But today I woke up to find that they’ve released a beta of a desktop client built on Adobe AIR.

You can grab the bits at http://www.pandora.com/desktop/. The application looks pretty solid. You can log in with your Pandora account and get access to all of your stations. I haven’t tested it on Linux yet, but I think it should work with the beta version of AIR. It’s really cool to see a company like Pandora – a long time user of Flash (and OpenLaszlo) – start to experiment with AIR. Congrats guys!

More info on Download Squad.

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  • http://penpalsjpg.com Penpals

    About Linux compatibility – I had big problems to make it work under Debian…

  • http://www.tekool.net/ Tek

    We really need a complete list of all Air application like this somewhere on the Adobe website. I start to plan the day my boss will came to me to see what Air can do.

    The website/weblog http://www.freshairapps.com/ starts to maintain this list but it not seems to be so active.

  • http://dreamdrummer.com/ Erki Esken

    Install, find out that Pandora is US-only now, uninstall. Too bad.

  • ryanstewart

    Yeah, I should have mentioned that because I got burned. I’m in Germany and couldn’t get the app to work until I set up a proxy through Adobe’s servers.

    Bummer.

  • Juan Valdez

    It’s a pretty lame implementation of AIR. At least they are dipping their toes in the water. Adobe should help them make this a more compelling app…