pianobar is an open source console client for the popular, personalized, online internet music streaming service, Pandora.
pianobar supports all of the important features of the Pandora.com web client.
The software is released under an open source license.
Key Features
- Play and manage (create, add more music, delete, rename, …) your stations.
- Rate played songs and let Pandora explain why they have been selected.
- Show upcoming songs/song history.
- Bookmark song/artist.
- Configure keybindings.
- Last.fm scrobbling support (external application).
- Proxy support for listeners outside the USA.
- Ban song for a month.
- Decrease / increase volume.
- Show upcoming songs.
- Select quickmix stations.
- Print information about song/station.
- Show why a song is being played.
Website: 6xq.net/pianobar
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Developer: Lars-Dominik Braun
License: Open source
pianobar is written in C. Learn C 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 |
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