Pithos is an open source native Pandora Radio client for Linux. It offers a lightweight alternative to the official Pandora.com web client.
The graphical user interface integrates with desktop features such as media keys, notifications, and the sound menu.
Pithos is not affiliated with or endorsed by Pandora Media, Inc.
Key Features
- Play / Pause / Next Song.
- Switching stations.
- Remembers your user name and password.
- Bookmarking of songs and artists.
- Cover Art.
- Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down / Tired of this song.
- Notification popup with song info.
- Launching pandora.com song info page and station page.
- Reconnecting when pandora session times out.
- Editing QuickMix.
- Creating stations.
- Media Key support.
- Proxy support.
- Last.fm scrobbling support.
- Volume control.
- Plugins including Screensaver pause.
- Two DBUS APIs: MPRIS and Pithos.
Website: pithos.github.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Kevin Mehall
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Pithos is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Pandora Radio Clients | |
|---|---|
| Pithos | Client with desktop integration and lightweight in system resources |
| pianobar | Console based client |
| pianod | Multi-source, network-controlled music player daemon |
| Panharmonicon | Command-line Pandora client written in Rust |
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Information online seems to indicate that Pandora intentionally blocks access to Pithos. I’ve had to research on this as the application doesn’t accept my login credentials (which has been tested via my Android phone, and my Firefox browser on my Rocky Linux system.
We’ll check it out. Thanks.
There’s always a risk that unofficial clients (for Pandora or other services) are blocked at some point.