Version 0.4.1

This is minor update with huge size reduction.

The new installer was significantly improved. The size was cut in half and many must features were added.

The application was only sligty updated. New menu 'About' was added. It shows the version for 5 seconds in the title bar.

New installer

In version 0.4, I have changed the installer. The older installers required Open Pandora to be uninstalled first so the new version could be correctly installed.

Please inform about any problems with the installation.

Integration with Microsoft Messenger

New version 4.0 of Open Pandora is ready, and it has integration with Microsoft Messenger.

You can enable sending played song information to Microsoft Messenger. Song information will be displayed in the Messenger just as it displayed in the title bar.

Another feature is that now links can be opened not only in Internet Explorer but if you choose they can be opened in the default browser, like Firefox.

Both features can be enabled and disabled from the Options in the context menu. You can open context menu from the title bar or tray icon.

Updated version 0.3.6b

Pandora changed the look of their menus and that affected Open Pandora. Download updated version 0.3.6b to take full adventage of the changes in Pandora.

Update: You might need to manually uninstall previous version.

New version 0.3.6: Song name and artist are back in Open Pandora

After a short research, I found out how to display back the song name and artist, after they where removed from the title by Pandora (see previous post).

Just install the new version 0.3.6a .

Pandora hides song name and artist

The guys in Pandora are making harder to find what song is played.
Current version of their flash player is 6.9.0.3 .

The title remains always the same: "Pandora - Find New Music, Listen to Custom Internet Radio Stations".
Even the java script used to notify on next played song, now contains only the song id.

My guess is that they did this after some guys created application to automatically save played songs to mp3 files called 3Tunes. Actually I just checked and their site is down, sort of.

Update: Not everything is that bad. PandoraFM allows to submit played song in Pandora to Last.FM, and it is still working.