Play Pandora from your Mac menu bar! PandaBar is a native Mac app that lets you play and control your Pandora radio stations from the comfort of your Mac OS menu bar. PandaBar brings global keyboard shortcuts, Apple media keys, Apple remote controls, Growl notifications and more to your Pandora listening experience.
The Pandora streaming-music service is incredibly popular, with over 100 million users, and for good reason: You tell Pandora about an artist you like, and the service creates a station filled with music by that artist and, based on relationships established by the Music Genome Project, music similar to that artist’s music. It’s like radio but with a few major advantages: You avoid the constant commercials; chances are you’ll like the station much better than anything on the radio, because it’s based on music you know you like; and Pandora’s algorithm is so good that you end up discovering lots of new music by artists you may not have even heard of.
There are currently dozens of media players and home-media components with Pandora built-in, as well as Pandora apps available for most computing platforms, including iOS, making it possible to listen to Pandora almost anywhere. But to listen to Pandora on your Mac, you need to either keep a browser window open to the Pandora site (which, for now, uses Flash) or install the Pandora One Desktop App, which requires that you first install Adobe AIR. Pick your poison.
- Control song playback (play/pause/next song)
- Give your songs thumbs up/down ratings
- All the radio stations you've created on Pandora.com can be played directly from PandaBar
- Global keyboard hotkeys for everything! (see http://www.pandabarapp.com/help for details)
- Use the media keys on your Apple keyboard for play/pause/next
- PandaBar stays in your menu bar
- Doesn't clutter your dock while it's running
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.2.1:
- Fix breakage due to Pandora changing their API.
- Option to sort stations alphabetically.
- Refresh station list if you've added stations at pandora.com.
REQUIREMENTS:
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
PRESS REVIEWS:
"PandaBar may be the best way to listen to Pandora on a Mac" -- TheNextWeb
"PandaBar is convenient and doesn't suck up a lot of resources." -- lifehacker
"PandaBar is one of those remarkably sweet Mac apps that doesn’t cost much, doesn’t take up much space, and does just what you want." -- Mac360
PandaBar is a great little app for listening to your Pandora stations. It’s simple to use, it doesn’t use much memory or CPU resources, and it gets out of your way
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