Pandora Radio Launches On Android Market!
| by Rob Jackson on September 9th, 2009 |
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Awesome Android applications have arrived on back-to-back days – yesterday was Facebook and today Pandora Radio! It is only available on American Androids but music loving Android owners in that region HAVE to be happy.
Here is the description from Android Market:
Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized radio now available to stream music on your phone. Start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it. Already a Pandora User? Just log in to enjoy your stations.
The app has gotten RAVE reviews in the Android Market so far and lets face it – the application was highly anticipated because people love Pandora. But the smooth, clean interface really help this app hit a homerun.
And the widget (seen left) is a nice touch that will let you control you music and access your stations directly from the home screen. Pretty sweet!
You’ve been waiting a long time so we won’t keep you any more – head on over to Android Market and download Pandora Radio!
If you’re not familiar with Pandora you may want to check out their FAQ.
[Via Pandora - Thanks Quentyn, Tsamps]
1. Justin2 wrote on September 9, 2009
It’s not working… WTF?! (As of 8:45 AM EST)
2. cp wrote on September 9, 2009
what’s the deal? It’s not in the market any more!
3. Miguel wrote on September 9, 2009
I can”t find it in the Market. I searched for “Pandora” and it only finds an app called “MusicSleep (Music Timer)”. I know the Market search feature is pathetic, but should this be this difficult?
4. Justin2 wrote on September 9, 2009
It’s up now, try again Miguel.
5. swedenguy wrote on September 9, 2009
use spotify insted! http://www.spotify.com/en/mobile/overview/
6. Randall wrote on September 9, 2009
My battery just crawled over in to a corner to die.
7. Josh wrote on September 9, 2009
Hero not supported! :(
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As soon as you launch Pandora, Hero users will see “Sorry, your device is currently not supported. Model: hero”
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Bummer
8. Sizzler wrote on September 9, 2009
@Josh
Are you located in the U.S.? If you’re overseas from here that’s probably your problem.
9. Jeff wrote on September 9, 2009
I had the same problem for a while, but it’s fine now…I was worried that it would only work over 3G, but it sounds fine over EDGE. Finally! I’ve been waiting for this one since the launch of the phone!
10. terry wrote on September 9, 2009
in your browser to go pandora.com, it will bring up pandora’s mobile download page, click the button and enjoy
11. chuksy wrote on September 9, 2009
Never liked Panndora….let them eat their app,i don’t want it. Arrogant bastards
12. Ricky D. wrote on September 9, 2009
So far this is the best app ever for me! I been cranking out the tunes all morning…probably need to watch that 10GB limit. Oh, I guess the iffy battery life on the myTouch will help me not go over my limited unlimited internet package.
13. G1User wrote on September 9, 2009
Things like this make me love Android more and more! Long live the G1!
14. Josh wrote on September 9, 2009
@sizzler
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Yes I am in the US on T-mobile USA using edge as my connection. It’s the device id Pandora doesn’t like.
15. Jeff wrote on September 9, 2009
@josh I am not the person to ask how but i am sure there is someway to change that if you root the phone
maybe when the US hero drops it will change on its own
16. Josh wrote on September 9, 2009
@sizzler
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Perfectly good hero doesn’t need to be rooted. Until it is confirmed to work I would asume doing it wouldn’t help either. Rooting does not solve all issues but thx for the suggestion. Works on my G1 perfect though.
17. Miguel wrote on September 9, 2009
Found it. Searching for “Pandora” in the Market apparently isn’t close enough. So I searched for “Pandora Radio” and it came up. Maybe Google can license Google for a better search function in the Market. :()
18. rigamrts wrote on September 9, 2009
found it and it work great force closed on first startup but work fine now. also if you switch between wifi and t mob networks it force closes saying can’t connect to pandora but if you restart the app it works fine
19. son wrote on September 9, 2009
hi josh, i think htc hero last week released an upgrade firmware so not only can hero sync with outlook but also download “3rd party” apps… go to htc official site and go into “support” page…
20. Josh wrote on September 9, 2009
Hero works now on Pandora! :). I talked Pandora tech support and they resolved the issue today with out patching the software. This was a global change so now all Hero devices in the US should get it. It was Pandoras servers preventing the Hero device ID from using the service.
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All fixed now.
21. KC wrote on September 10, 2009
Cant find it at all via 2d barcode, pandora site or anything else.
22. Jjd wrote on September 10, 2009
I cannot download it using the Market — it continuously says “download unsuccessful” — I’ve been trying for 24 hours.
If I go to pandora.com, I get a nice welcome page saying “download pandora now” but clicking on the button yields “There are no matches in the Android Market for the search pname:com.pandora.android”
23. Gaza wrote on September 10, 2009
looking forward to Last FM version for Android
24. Jo wrote on October 21, 2009
Any way of getting this in the UK, it doesn’t show up in the market place no matter what I type in :o/
25. Tony B wrote on December 19, 2009
i have pandora on my hero, but i cant change the radio station from anything other than quick mix or the one station that i first chose upon openning the app initially… what am i doing wrong?