New Pandora works beautifully on TouchPad with its redesigned HTML 5 Interface 30
Pandora has announced today a brand new HTML5 based interface for their free music-streaming service, and as you can see in the screenshot above, it works great on the TouchPad. We may not have received an update to the smartphone-sized Pandora app to fill up the big screen of the tablet, but if it's any consolation, this re-creation of the popular "personal radio station" is much better than any apps we've seen released for mobile devices. The news adds yet another instance to our long list of "You don't need an app for that."
This latest release of Pandora brings a much more nicer user interface, an easier process for creating music stations, more details about the artists and albums that you're listening to, the ability to share your favorite stations with your friends and the removal of that pesky 40 hour listening cap that they had introduced a while back. So far, there's been no lagginess or glitches within the system, and the Pro version of Pandora looks great with its lack of ads and smoother experience. Here's another trick that is only available for webOS users at the moment - you can keep Pandora's new website running in Exhibition Mode easily by downloading the Luna app (Free) by LazyDay Project.
So if you're ready to celebrate this big news from today, we recommend you load up Pandora in your web browser and search for the fantastic victory music from "Last of the Mohicans" to get your blood flowing and your feet dancing.
Source: Pandora Blog; App Catalog: Luna Browser
30 Comments
Done & done. Great tip, TSD.
Good choice of music.
I thought it already had an HTML5 interface a few weeks ago.
No. It was flash based, slow and not very intuitive.
Nice, although it was already working with old interface the other day when I tried it.
i don't have the pro version of Pandora on my Pre2 and i've never heard one commercial. and i listen to it roughly 3-8 hours a day at work... gotta love Pandora!!!
do we have a "you don't need an app for that" list?
No because the list would be quite long.
I couldn't find it as an app (still had the old Pandora for the phone), so I tried the website. What I am showing looks pretty good, but the entire right half of the page is advertising. Is that because I am using the free version? Is this a web page or an app?
BTW, HPQ stock up almost 10% on the news of the day.
It is a web page, and yes the advertising is there because you're using the free version.
Thanks, Tim
if pandora isn't in the app catalog on your touchpad, then the app catalog thinks your touchpad isn't in the USA. you can confirm it by looking for other USA-only apps, like IHeartRadio (which is another excellent streaming music app with land radio stations too). I had this exact problem on my TouchPad, for reasons unknown it had decided it was in Canada. Resetting to factory defaults was no help, the problem was in my palm profile (even though the profile itself said USA and my phone still knew it was in the USA).
The only fix is to contact tech support, get elevated to level3, then beg and plead for them to take care of it... it took 3 weeks to get mine fixed. First level tech support can look in your profile and see the country tags on each device (you can only see the country tag on the overall profile), but they can't fix the problem.
Thanks. I have the app on my TouchPad, but I thought this was a new one designed for the TouchPad--Pandora HD or something. What I have transferred from my Pre-and sounds just fine, but the visuals are nothing like the new HTML 5 version.
oh, I misunderstood your post then. perhaps I was reading it through the glasses of my recent problem.
Funny thing is I went on engadget to read for the kindle rent of free books thru public libraries and saw that too...and tried it before I saw the article on the PlC. I might try it with webonEx since I have it installed already. Yes the Pandora app for the phones don't have commercials and if you don't care about album art you can use the phone app on your TP.
I like how the app works with the notification bar though...
The on screen sliders do not work for me. If you have more than a few stations you will not be able to select them, as far as I can tell. Station selection works with the phone app.
Tap the area around where the scroll bar should slide and you can navigate your stations (sort of).
I like how the music continues to stream even after the screen goes to sleep mode. Great tip on the new HTML5 format. Works great! Don't need the app anymore! :)
My music stops streaming when my screens gets turned off. Is there a tip or patch that allows this that I may not be aware of? Thanks for any advice :)
Out of curiosity, I tried to get there with my Pre... it redirected to a page directing me to load the app (which I do have). Bummer, 'cause I just wanted to try it.
Very nice 1 of my favorite apps and now it looks ****
it looks hot! LOL
I don't stream enough music to warrant a subscription to Pandora. But another bonus to using the app is no commercials or ads. After a few hours I have to reload the app (probably because of a commercial break) but by that time I'm usually finished listening to music.
NO JOY IN CANADA..
One problem you can not scroll through your channels on the left so if you have more channels than fit in the left pain you can't access them. Hopefully they make it more touch friendly or fingers crossed a Pandora app for touchpad come on Pandora a couple hundred thousand touchpad users is not enough to port the iPad app.
anyone else having trouble using it on their Touchpad?
yes. It doesn't work.
It keeps trying to load my options, then reloads the home page, then back to my last pref... spinning...
Great news, just one little request. Could you drop 'more' from "Pandora brings a much more nicer user interface?" I know it's just a small grammar thing but it doesn't sound good at all :-). Thanks!