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Pandora Radio Client Pithos 1.3.0 Released, Available In PPA

| Date: April 13, 2017 | View Comments | Tags: appindicator, linux, pandora, pithos, radio, ubuntu

Pithos 1.3.0 was released recently and is now available in its official PPA, for Ubuntu 17.04, 16.10 and 16.04. The new version brings support for MPRIS playlist and tracklist interfaces, improved accessibility UI, and more.


Pithos is a Pandora Radio (only available in Australia, New Zealand and the United States) client that supports Pandora features such as love / ban / tired, allows creating, editing and switching between stations, and more.

The application integrates tightly with the desktop, providing notifications, MPRIS v2 support (it integrates with the Ubuntu Sound Menu / GNOME Shell, etc. ), media keys, can inhibit the screensaver and so on.

Pandora Client `Pithos` Sees New Major Release

| Date: July 28, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: music player, pandora, pithos, radio, ubuntu

Pithos 1.2.0 was released today and it includes a new explicit content filter option, new dialog design, along with other improvements and important bug fixes.


Pithos is a Pandora Radio client that integrates tightly with the desktop, providing notifications, an Ubuntu AppIndicator, MPRIS v2 support (so it integrates with the Ubuntu Sound indicator, etc.), media keys and more.

Pandora Client `Pithos` 1.1.0 And 1.0.2 Released

| Date: May 12, 2015 | View Comments | Tags: linux, music, pandora, pithos, ubuntu

Two new Pithos versions were released yesterday: 1.1.0 (for GTK 3.14+ only) and 1.0.2 and they include an important bug fix which caused the app to stop playing randomly.


Pithos is a Pandora.com (a music streaming and recommendation service that's only available in the United States, Australia and New Zealand) client which comes with pretty much everything you'd need in such an application, like:

Pandora Linux Client `Pithos` 1.0 Released, Install It In Ubuntu 14.04

| Date: May 05, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: linux, music, music player, pandora, pithos, ubuntu

Pithos, a Pandora.com Linux client, was updated to version 1.0 recently. With this release, Pithos was ported to Python 3, GTK3 and GStreamer 1.0 but that's not all that's new - there are also some new features as well as a new app icon.



Pandora is a music streaming and recommendation service that's only available in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. You can use it in any other country with an US proxy, VPN or a DNS service such as Unlocator (for free alternatives, see the comments).

Pandora Plugin For Rhythmbox

| Date: January 13, 2011 | View Comments | Tags: music, pandora, pithos, plugins, rhythmbox


Pandora radio is a personalized internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites. You can create custom web radio stations and listen free - available only in the US.


I've recently came across a Pandora plugin for Rhythmbox that uses Pithos for accessing Pandora. While Pithos must be installed for the plugin to work, you don't have to run Pithos to use the Pandora Rhythmbox plugin.

The original plugin doesn't work with the latest Rhythmbox 0.13.2 and the author is currently traveling so he  can't fix it until February so I decided to try and fix it myself, even though I don't know Python and luckily I was able to get it to work with Rhythmbox 0.13.2. However, I'm not sure if it still works with older Rhythmbox versions, so if my fixed plugin doesn't work, try the original plugin.

Features and usage

The Pandora Rhythmbox plugin comes with the same features as Pithos: you can create or delete stations, love, ban, tired songs and so on.

Pithos Blocked By Pandora?!

| Date: October 06, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: linux, music, pandora, pithos, ubuntu, web

Bad news for Pithos users (a Pandora.com client for Linux): WebUpd8 reader Nicholas A. Aronne sent us a tip about Pithos who seems to have stopped working today:


So was Pithos blocked or is it just a Pandora API upgrade? We'll see. But the fact remains: you won't be able to use Pithos for now so you'll have to use the "flashy" Pandora.com website.

Update: pianobar (libpiano) is also currently broken so either libpiano (Pithos uses libpiano) was blocked or Pandora simply updated something which broke it. We'll keep you posted!


Update 2: A new Pithos version which fixes this issue has been uploaded to its PPA


Thanks to Nicholas A. Aronne for the tip and screenshot!
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