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Notice! Development has stopped for the past year or so! As of 2014-04-04 the app is still functional
I've since moved away from Pandora. When they raised their rates without changing their service in any way I became disinterested and moved on to other services such as Spotify and Songza. This especially became true when I noticed that Pandora started to have technical difficulties on the server side where the audio file served up is corrupted in some way, and is unplayable on even their official clients. For these reasons, my work here is done. Bye Pandora.
Release change log: https://github.com/dylanPowers/pandoroid/wiki/Release-Change-Log
Latest APK release: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B45xPO3g3qNWRnVHVGt5QlhhQW8&usp=sharing
News and Information Updates: https://github.com/dylanPowers/pandoroid/wiki/News
Requires Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) or above. Android 2.2 is unsupported primarily because of a lack of encryption support (Blowfish to be exact).
- Internet
- Access Network State: Well this is an internet application.
- Read Phone State: This is so we can pause and unpause the music playback when you get a phone call.
- Creator: Andrew Regner
- Current Maintainer: Dylan Powers
- Contributors (in no particular order):
This app works for both standard Pandora users, and Pandora users with a Pandora One account. For those with a standard account I would strongly recommend getting a Pandora One account seeing how this app doesn't have ads, and we should support this fantastic radio streaming service that Pandora provides. Plus you get the bonus of higher quality audio.
- Audio Quality: For standard Pandora users this app streams at 128k MP3 audio, and for Pandora One users it streams at 192k MP3 audio (metered network note: that's about 80MB an hour!). This is an upgrade from Pandora's native app's quality of 64k AACPlus audio. The main difference between the 128k MP3 and 64k AACPlus streams is that for whatever reason, Android's native media player (4.0-Ice Cream Sandwich and lower, this has been fixed in 4.1-Jelly Bean) introduces artifacts into the audio for the 64k AACPlus stream. If it wasn't for these audio artifacts the 128k MP3 and 64k AACPlus would be indistinguishable in perceptible quality. For this reason, we are running the 128k MP3.
This application and its source code is made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
I am not affiliated with nor authorized by Pandora Radio. This is not a challenge to their copyrights or trademarks in any way. Be aware that this app goes against Pandora's Terms of Service. I nor anyone here is responsible for anything that may happen to your Pandora account, or any other troubles that are incurred while using this app (no worries though, if something goes awry, we'll be the first to know!).