The player window displays the album cover for the current track, the track name and artist name, and a progress bar showing the current track’s progress and remaining time. Unfortunately, you can’t create new stations from within PandaBar-you’ll still need to visit the Pandora site, or use one of the official Pandora apps, to edit your stations list. You can sort the stations list alphabetically or by creation date if you’ve created new stations on the Pandora site, click the Refresh button to update the list. 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. 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.
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.
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.
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