Pithos

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.

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Pithos Pandora client

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.

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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:

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Pithos 1.0.1 was released recently and it includes some minor improvements and bug fixes - for instance, the bug that was causing the Ubuntu Sound Menu to stop working when using Pithos was fixed in this release.

Pithos Pandora client

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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.

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Pithos Pandora client

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Rhythmbox Pandora plugin

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.

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

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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:

Pithos pandora blocked

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!