The app is part of a bigger push to maintain the service’s 75 million listeners in what has become a highly competitive market. Pandora was recently acquired by SiriusXM. Player controls reside at the very bottom with search, and My Collection functions up top.
Album art and track info appear front and center with lyrics and other information below. Currently playing and recommended stations appear to the left of the interface and ads are to the right. Pandora’s app is more or less identical to the web player. Modes that can be applied to stations include Crowd Faves, Discovery, Deep Cuts, and Artist Only. This premium feature adds selectable modes to radio stations to customize the listening experience. In addition to lyric support and station recommendations, the app has a few features that the Flash player doesn’t have including keyboard controls, on-screen song notifications, and controls for Pandora’s new Modes feature. The streaming service announced on Monday that it already has a Mac version of the player ready for download. Windows users will have to wait a while longer. Pandora has finally decided to release an app for desktop users.
In brief: Pandora listeners might be happy to learn that they will soon be able to ditch the Flash-based browser player for a native desktop app.
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