Pandora.com CLI

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This is one I've been on the lookout for.
Pianobar plays your pandora.com stations from the command line. BYE BYE FLASH :D

There are some vague directions for various flavors of linux on the home page.

** Note: This should not be necessary in future versions of Ubuntu, pianobar was accepted into Maverick's universe repo.

I got it running on Ubuntu 10.4 with a little tweaking. I've seen some mentions of someone's random PPA having it but that's a little exposed for my taste. I grabbed the .deb files from github instead. (You'll need git installed sudo apt-get install git for this.)

Clone the repo from github:
git clone http://github.com/wendall911/wendall911-ubuntu-packages.git

cd into the new directory:
cd wendall911-ubuntu-packages

Find the latest pianobar by checking the dates, for me pianobar_2010.5.1-i386.deb was the latest. Then install with dpkg.
sudo dpkg -i pianobar_2010.5.1-i386.deb

If you need any libraries it will holler at you, I needed one library...
sudo apt-get install libao2

It then finished up the install by itself (I begin to love apt...)
Just run pianobar and it'll drop you into the player. Another great use for screen XD.
I think it'd be possible to make kerravonsen's screen script work with this but haven't got it yet...


It even shows you songs you've already favorited with a little <3

Type ? to get the menu.

Comments

[foxfirefey]

It's a great idea even if it doesn't have the ads if you (can afford/are offered the ability to buy) Pandora's paid option, though!

[sophie]

Technically, I'm not even supposed to be able to use it; I'm in the UK. I get around this by SOCKSing through my server in the US. Thus, buying a paid account is probably not an option for me as it'd reveal that I'm really from the UK.

(and no, I don't see it as hypocrisy that I get around this but not ads; yes, I'm aware that it's not kosher, but it's generating more revenue for them really, not less.)