plugin for pandora.com

by **jsilva** on Tue May 09, 2006 8:36 am

I wonder if there is anything for this excelent project

Thanks

by **jowaldo** on Tue May 09, 2006 3:49 pm

nothing that i know of, but I've seen that site before, and its pretty stinkin awesome!

by **jsilva** on Tue May 09, 2006 10:07 pm

yes it's great and meedio has a plugin for it :evil:

by **edgley** on Tue May 16, 2006 9:28 pm

Thank you for showing me this, it is amazing!

by **sharp_1** on Wed May 17, 2006 5:53 pm

Now this would be an awesome plugin for xlobby. I have been listening to pandora for the past week...what a great project!!! Thanks for the heads up on this one.

by **buymeapc** on Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:58 pm

I thought I'd resurrect this topic....

Did anyone create anything like this for XLobby?

by **memoe** on Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:57 pm

jsilva wrote:yes it's great and meedio has a plugin for it

I'm not sure how meedio _could_ do anything in a plugin. I'd be interested in any pointers you about this. AFAIK, there aren't any hooks into Pandora. It's just an applet. I put Pandora into a screen, as a browser window.

I got the info from this link: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/listen-to-pandora-in-winamp.html The only clever thing I had to do was make sure I changed the URL when I left the page so Pandora didn't keep playing. I am hoping to win wyfe points with this screen.

by **P3rv3rt B3ar** on Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:52 am

memoe wrote:I'm not sure how meedio _could_ do anything in a plugin. I'd be interested in any pointers you about this. AFAIK, there aren't any hooks into Pandora. It's just an applet. I put Pandora into a screen, as a browser window.

Thanx for info about winamp connection.

Dont know about medio but Xlobby could really use plugin which would provide XLobby style interface to pandora. Having that applet on your skin is not exactly pretty...

about "hooks"... every networked application comes with ready programming interface, u just need sniffer (and cryptoanalysis skills and CPU cycles) to figure it out

by **buymeapc** on Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:24 pm

It doesn't "sound" too difficult to do.....(does it?)

Here's a screenshot of the meedio plugin in action:
Meedio Screen

There is even another project which made pandora into it's very own application:
OpenPandora

I'm just hoping to get the creative juices flowing for everyone. :wink:

by **memoe** on Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:33 am

True Confessions--I'm not at a skill level to write a plugin.

I appreciate the links. I am going to check out the Pandora Open Source App. Where there's a will, there's a way. For my setup, Pandora increases the WAF. With that App you pointed to, there may be a work-around. Something like this:

a) Launch the App
b) XRemote to send keys to the App (might need Girder for this)
c) Close the App when leaving the screen

Maybe Step b 1/2) Show the App with MoveWindow (or is it XMoveWindow?)

My $0.02 I may play with some of these, but it isn't at the top of my XL list.

by **P3rv3rt B3ar** on Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:06 am

That open pandora looks very promising. Have to check it out thoroughly later today. Thanx for showing it to us.

by **buymeapc** on Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:48 am

Maybe Step b 1/2) Show the App with MoveWindow (or is it XMoveWindow?)

I'm very sure it can be accomplished this way with the open pandora project. I would personally, prefer the functionality of a plugin, but this way would suffice. :wink:

I'm still gonna poke around and see what I can find.

That open pandora looks very promising. Have to check it out thoroughly later today. Thanx for showing it to us.

No problem, I love to share!

by **P3rv3rt B3ar** on Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:53 pm

Ok been testing it a little and this open pandora is great, u could build a skin around it doing control trough buttons which abuse its global hotkeys, and so u could give up the mismatching applet... but building a dedicated plugin would still be so much better, u could for example get now playing data, and mayby even put your stations into cat. So ive been reading from net that there actually is Pandora API, so i might actually be interested to see what i could cook up... but i cant find the goddamn documentation of this api... Anybody has any idea where i should look?

by **cinOxen** on Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:39 pm

Haven't got xmovewindow working yet but openpandora Keeps the same position anyway so it doesn't really matter.

The child class is "MACROMEDIAFLASHPLAYERACTIVEX" for sending keystrokes if you don't want to use "match forground task"

by **sharp_1** on Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:45 pm

I wonder if this would work with zoning?? and how it would be set up if its even possible??