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May 22, 2007
The Pandora Everywhere Platform
Late last year I wrote on this blog that when we started Pandora we set out to do 5 things, and that we'd so far only been able to talk about four of them.
Well, tonight we can finally take the wraps off a secret project that we started just about a year ago that lets us tackle that "5th thing."
Over the course of the last year, we've had a team developing something we call the Pandora Everywhere Platform.
This is a entirely new system, that allows us to unleash Pandora from the desktop and delivery to any device, in any music format, over any network wired or wireless with capacity for 10's of millions of users enjoying the same simple Pandora experience they've come to expect at Pandora.com.
Using this platform we're going to be able to take Pandora to places that it simply couldn't go before and tonight we're announcing the first two offerings based on this new system:
Pandora for Sprint
Pandora for Sonos
Posted by Tom Conrad at May 22, 2007 09:47 PM
Comments
Congrats on all the updates/upgrades! Now I may finally have to give in and get a Sonos system.
Posted by: hillary hartley at May 22, 2007 10:39 PM
I think the nintendo Wii is a brilliant way to get pandora into living rooms ... have you considered making a Wii-friendly page? It should be quite easy! Just need a smaller memory footprint judging by the error the Wii gives me when I try to load it now :)
Posted by: travis at May 23, 2007 01:35 AM
btw guys, the new skin is GORGEOUS.
Posted by: dep at May 23, 2007 07:16 AM
Great job guys. Ooh, and I second the Wii idea!
http://geeklimit.com/2007/05/23/pandora-goes-mobile/
Posted by: Dan at May 23, 2007 07:20 AM
I hope Pandora is working on support for Symbian S60v3 phones that are WiFi-enabled like the Nokia N73, N80, N95, etc. These are already great music phones (Rhapsody-To-Go already supports the N95). The problem is that I don't want (the admittedly cool) Rhapsody-To-Go, I want Pandora.
What's even better is that these phones are carrier-independent (I use T-Mobile, but they don't even sell my phone) and sold directly from Nokia, so Pandora doesn't have to sell its soul to a carrier to reach its customers. Just let us subscribe and download the software. It's better for customers and better for Pandora.
Posted by: Bruce at May 23, 2007 08:04 AM
If you can get a deal with Cingular, I would finally have a reason to get the unlimited data package. We all love what you guys do, keep up the good work!
Posted by: Jeremy at May 23, 2007 09:03 AM
How about a pandora for the Tivo? It's a very simple API, and you host everything on your own servers; You don't even have to make an agreement with TiVo, just design the app. The TiVo remote even has thumbs up and thumbs down buttons already!
If you guys had an open API for pandora, I'd write the thing myself.
Posted by: James at May 23, 2007 10:10 AM
Great job on the new platforms, and the new look is great.
Thanks for the fantastic service.
Posted by: Dan at May 23, 2007 11:49 AM
Yup, Pandora everywhere - but only in the states....
Posted by: j_c at May 23, 2007 02:28 PM
PSPandora!
Posted by: Guy at May 23, 2007 02:29 PM
Great news! -- BUT, I hope you show up soon on Verizon Wireless and support Treo 700p!
Posted by: George at May 23, 2007 08:17 PM
I second the motion for Pandora for Tivo.
Posted by: JaimeRoberto at May 23, 2007 08:46 PM
thanks for the windows live gadget
can you provide a vista sidebar gadget?
SD
Posted by: SJD at May 23, 2007 09:44 PM
@ Dan - exactly what I was thinking.
Posted by: Armin at May 24, 2007 01:33 AM
Pandora for Wii! Maybe even a Pandora Channel downloadable from the Wii store...?
Posted by: Michael at May 25, 2007 07:11 AM
Pandora Everywhere should be carrier-agnostic. I know the cell phone companies all want something exclusive, but as mentioned in an earlier comment, you could have a Symbian version of the Pandora app and get way more market share than making something carrier-specific.
Posted by: Mr. Gunn at May 25, 2007 01:26 PM
I hope you really follow through with Pandora everywhere. I watched your entire presentation and love what you are doing. I regret to see you moving away from advertisement based service to a payed subscriber based service; although I understand that it is in keeping with current trends, xm vs broadcast radio, cable vs broadcast television, etc. Please make Pandora available wherever possible, Nintendo Wii, TiVo. Not all of us have a couple thousand to drop on Sonos system and most of us would like to learn about new music with the hardware we already have even with the ads.
Posted by: L. Gabo at May 25, 2007 10:07 PM
Need your help downloading your software please
Posted by: david cobbold at May 26, 2007 05:44 PM
Hi David--
Thanks for checking out Pandora Everywhere, and thanks for commenting.
Pandora on the Web doesn't require installing any software onto your computer. It does require your browser to have the very common Flash Player plug-in, which you can get here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
[Windows, all versions]
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW
[Mac OS X, all processors]
If you're having trouble with Pandora on the Go or Pandora in the Home, please send an email to pandora-support@pandora.com and we'll get right back to you.
Posted by: iellisonPAN at May 26, 2007 07:03 PM
make pandora WORK ON THE WII!
Posted by: mat harding at May 27, 2007 05:04 PM
I have a Palm Treo 700P with Sprint. I will be glad to pay the fee per month whenever you guys get support for this model.
Jess
Posted by: Jesse at May 29, 2007 01:21 PM
I NEED Pandora on Verizon! I already use my phone (Samsung sch-a970) as a mini-boombox; and listen to Pandora at home. The two can be combined.
It's possibe.
It's beautiful.
Make it happen.
Please!
Posted by: Greg at May 29, 2007 10:08 PM
I noticed when shopping for mobile broadband service for my laptop Verizon does not allow you to download, stream or upload music, and videos. Youtube, Pandora etc... are banned under the verizon broadband service, as well as sending attachments via e-mail that contain video or music files yet Sprint allows all of that.
I suspect that the Verizon network can not handle the load hence why Pandora is only available for Sprint?
In any event I would never sign up for a verizon broadband account that limits what website you can use, on their "unlimited" plan.
Posted by: Mike at May 30, 2007 12:32 PM
I downloaded the trial version of Pandora through Sprint but when someone calls me it won't come through unless the caller leaves a voice mail and until after I stop listening to music. I intend to pay the $2.99 when the trial runs out but I want to know if the full version will allow calls to come through. Can anyone answer this? Thanks I would love to use the Wii to listen as well. Pandora Everywhere is the best!
Posted by: Reggie at May 30, 2007 06:19 PM
Hi Reggie,
Sadly the Sprint network doesn't support simultaneous data and voice calls so we can't deliver a version of Pandora on Sprint that will pause the music when you receive a call. Very frustrating limitation -- perhaps the worst thing about the entire solution in my opinion.
Tom
CTO @ Pandora
Posted by: Tom Conrad at May 31, 2007 02:41 PM
I know you can't be all things to all people. I was so sad to loose Pandora while traveling in Korea. (I'm an American working in South Korea for the next few years.) Any luck with Pandora worldwide?
Your service is GREAT. I can't find anything that even comes close. I just want to send my encouragement for you to keep trying to make Pandora available everywhere in the world.
Posted by: Liz Bailey at June 1, 2007 05:01 PM
Any one know when Pandora will be available on the Upstage?
Posted by: Tom at June 1, 2007 06:02 PM
Most sprint phones have codes you can type in to make voice calls take precedence over the data connection. Im sure pandora cant support such usage of your phone, and i have no idea what it would do to the software if it were interrupted, but you can google it and find out!
Posted by: Travis at June 4, 2007 01:30 AM
I was thinking .. Pandora and Myspace maybe .. If it's not already available, of course.
Posted by: Diego at June 4, 2007 09:13 AM
Another thunbs up for Pandora on the Wii.
Posted by: Mo at June 7, 2007 06:07 PM
Another bump for a Wii channel or a Wii friendly page.
Posted by: NoMo at June 10, 2007 01:28 PM
Hi guys,
when Pandora is going world-wide?
What about the possibility to place servers in Latam (e.g. Chile) to broadcast for non-US countries?
Regards,
Sebastian
Posted by: Sebastian at June 13, 2007 05:12 PM
Pandora on Tivo please! You'll have a new subscriber (me!) or even possibly thousands... I am a software developer and would love to do it if I had an API.
Posted by: Brandon at June 22, 2007 01:40 PM
Pandora on the Wii ... patiently waiting.
Great service, I have been spreading the word to all my friends and family.
- Allen
Posted by: Allen at July 13, 2007 05:29 PM
Yes, Pandora on the Wii would be absolutly fabulous! Is there any possible way to make this happen?
It almost loads now - but then gives a memory error. (Wii uses the Opera browser)
Posted by: Alyssa at July 16, 2007 08:45 AM
Ive been playing with Pandora on the Sanyo M1 ... everything works great, and using the ##3282# code to set the phone to "voice_pri" over "data_pri" makes incoming calls pause pandora until im finished! This only works on an evdo connection however, i dont believe there is a way to set voice priority over 1x vision data. I only wish the program would make use of the external display, and im pretty sure that the bandwidth of the audio stream could be safely upped quite a bit for the evdo people to enjoy greater sound quality. I cant even tell a difference in sound quality between the 1x vision and evdo steams (if there is a difference)... considering the enormous difference in available bandwidth i find that a bit surprising. Still its a lot of fun to have pandora over my car stereo speeding down the interstate!
Posted by: Travis at July 17, 2007 11:07 PM
No doubt you know that existing free or reasonably priced devices such as the Nokia E65 and the Wii console are the preferred end user tool today to tap into new and exciting services such as Pandora's wonderful choice of music.
Wi-Fi/IP enabled mobile devices based on the brilliant Symbian S60 3rd Edition platform will spread Pandora like wildfire.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/S60_3rd_Edition/
Posted by: nemasus at August 4, 2007 04:29 AM
I vote for the Tivo integration as well. I would pay for this service yesterday!
Posted by: ELL at August 7, 2007 09:24 PM
I too would love Pandora to be made available through my Tivo. It would be a garanteed hit with all Tivo suscribers that have enabled the Home Media Option on their machines
Posted by: Mario at August 21, 2007 08:59 AM
Pandora on the wii would be great. After finding out about this site, I tried it from the wii opera browser and got a memory error. I even tried an SD card in hopes it would let me store more, but I am guessing it is an issue with ram and not storage space.
Posted by: Adam at August 26, 2007 10:35 AM
Pandora through TiVo would be so great. and easy for you guys to do. Do it!
Posted by: kt at August 29, 2007 09:23 AM
Pandora for the Wii!
Posted by: Tx at September 6, 2007 11:31 AM
another vote for pandora on the wii, with its own channel or otherwise!
Posted by: Brock at September 6, 2007 10:03 PM
Wii compatible pandora is a missing element of life essential to existence!
Posted by: MC at September 14, 2007 03:19 PM
Pandora is really great! Another vote for getting it to work on the wii!
Posted by: Pietro at September 17, 2007 06:25 PM
i 100th pandora for the wii. pandora is awesome
Posted by: poncho at September 18, 2007 05:22 PM
I'm typing this on my Wii...
Lighten up the SWF size, use the smaller ads from the pop-up player and limit caching/buffering. Then, create a Wii subdomain beneath Pandora.com and start telling people about it.
Or, create a Wii channel. I'd happily pay money to use Pandora on the Wii.
Posted by: Michael at September 19, 2007 05:26 PM
Pandora for the Wii!!!! Woo-hoo!!! Please make it happen...
Posted by: Nolan at September 20, 2007 10:34 AM
Another vote for Pandora on the Wii. Finetune works, which is ok, but nothing at all like Pandora. Not even close, really. Please make it happen if you can. Pandora channel would certainly be worth some hard-earned Wii points. Access through the Internet Channel with ads would be great as well.
Posted by: GibJuice at September 20, 2007 11:48 AM
YES! Pandora on the Wii!! Will have to also use Finetune untl then
Posted by: Sean at September 26, 2007 09:52 AM
Please make the Pandora web site Wii (Opera) compatible. That alone would quadruple my Pandora use
Posted by: Clark at September 27, 2007 04:54 PM
We need a Pandora vista sidebar gadget and media center plug in.
Posted by: Boomsling at September 29, 2007 07:24 AM
wii me please. And I phone.. Sent from iPhone
Posted by: drclick at September 29, 2007 07:43 AM
Pandora for the Wii!! Man, that'd rock...
Posted by: buddypepper at October 10, 2007 12:07 PM
yet another request to have pandora play on Wii. I would pay for the pandora channel too!
Posted by: ayush at October 27, 2007 08:33 PM
Another vote for the Wii!! Is anybody listening? Sounds like a lot of demand to me :) You could have a good thing going here.
Posted by: Dustin at November 30, 2007 06:27 PM
please please please put pandora on verizon wireless! Is this still being considered or in the making?
Posted by: Jonathan at December 7, 2007 01:27 AM
pandora for the wii please !!!
Posted by: si at December 7, 2007 10:03 AM
Ditto for Pandora on the Wii! Please!
Posted by: Nathan at December 13, 2007 10:54 AM
YES! Pandora for the Wii!!!! Pleeease !!!
(I know, it was said before, but the more the better :-) )
Posted by: Artoros at December 17, 2007 08:35 AM
Wii!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at December 18, 2007 06:47 AM
Wii Please!
Posted by: trebla at December 23, 2007 09:09 AM
Please, please ... would you make Pandora on the Wii available? Very many thanks in advance!
Posted by: tambry at December 24, 2007 09:16 AM
Wii
iPod Touch
PSP
DirecTV HR20
Basically anything that supports a browser and any device that supports uPnP A/V. Love the service. Would gladly pay a monthly fee if Pandora Everywhere is truly everywhere! Thank you!
Posted by: freakius at December 25, 2007 10:03 PM
Wii Want Pandora!
Posted by: sycguy at December 26, 2007 09:11 AM
Nokia N95 / Symbian
Windows Mobile
Tivo
Posted by: Alan at December 28, 2007 01:13 PM
yes. I'm also all about the wii!
Posted by: dep at December 29, 2007 09:50 AM
I'd like to say that I just discovered Pandora and would really like to use it on the Wii.
Posted by: Rhys at December 29, 2007 10:12 AM
Pandora and Wii - a perfect match!!!!!
Posted by: zoebear98 at December 29, 2007 03:42 PM
Pandora on Tivo would be awesome!
Posted by: SJB at January 10, 2008 11:39 PM
Does Pandora exist as a Vista gadget yet?
Posted by: dee at January 11, 2008 06:19 AM
pandora on verizon! please make it happen...the only thing i miss from Sprint...
Posted by: erik at January 16, 2008 05:32 PM
I bet some server jocks out there could whip up an unofficial flash player that could get the pandora service working on the wii
Posted by: joe at January 19, 2008 11:48 PM
I am adding my voice to those requesting Pandora on Verizon Wireless! Please, please add this functionality if you can!
Posted by: kb at January 22, 2008 06:36 AM
Pandora on the Wii! Please? I'd also love to be able to use it on my iPhone which could plug in anywhere, but the iPhone doesn't support flash. Perhaps pandora.com/iphone and pandora.com/wii?
Posted by: Ryan at January 22, 2008 02:53 PM
I'd love to get Pandora either on my Wii or on TiVo. I use Pandora all the time at work and would love to get it at home as well.
Posted by: Mike Miller at January 26, 2008 09:28 AM
So how many comments is it going to take to get you guys to crank the mem footprint down so the GREAT thing you have with Pandora works on the NINTENDO WII ?
Posted by: Fred at January 28, 2008 08:40 AM
...... silence .....
oh darn, that was my Wii playing Pandora.
Posted by: vv at January 29, 2008 01:26 PM
Wii!!!! I know sales for the sound system you're selling is why you're holding out, but listeners would SKYROCKET with Pandora on the Wii!!
I haven't even downloaded the Wii browser yet! I searched yahoo for "does pandora work on wii". It was honestly my first thought of website I would browse to on the wii browser.
I'm out to buy the browser now. I would pay for this to work, ads don't bother me either, I'd probably visit a few too.
Posted by: New Wii owner at February 2, 2008 05:47 PM
we need this for Verizon... doesn't make any sense its not there
Posted by: VERIZONGUY at February 10, 2008 12:17 PM
wii!
Posted by: rkh at February 19, 2008 08:25 PM
I love pandora, it's improved many many aspects of my life. I just got verizon EV-OD service, so I can take my laptop anywhere, which I thought meant, I could have pandora everywhere. But Pandora is a little too demanding, for it to handle. Are their any lower bandwidth options?
Posted by: kevin at March 3, 2008 08:37 PM
Pandora on Wii Opera! Need portable Pandora! I would love to use Pandora on the Wii for low power tunes. Pandora has turned me on to more music than any other.
Posted by: nc at March 8, 2008 01:46 PM
YES PLEASE We need Pandora on the Wii
Posted by: Herb B. at March 13, 2008 01:31 PM
Adding to the Wii pile on, PLEASE make Pandora compatible with the Wii ASAP!
Posted by: Chip Riggs at March 16, 2008 07:30 AM
And folks, that is the sound of Pandora playing on my Nintendo Wii.. Now, let's learn to Google more, and complain less shall we?
http://openpandora.googlepages.com/
Posted by: Luke at March 28, 2008 06:04 PM
WII us, we need to be one wii with pandora.
Posted by: Seriously at April 8, 2008 02:07 PM
Don't feel bad, fellow Wii owners... I'd love to see Pandora on Wii, but a friend of mine has a PS3 and he said it doesn't work on there, either. I'm not sure what the problem is, but it would be nice to also see a pandora.com/ps3, and while we're at it, why not a pandora.com/360 (or pandora.com/dreamcast)?
Posted by: Lurid at April 14, 2008 07:08 PM
I submit my vote for Pandora on Tivo!!!
Posted by: Mark at May 3, 2008 06:32 AM
Pandora on the Wii in some form would indeed be sweet.
Posted by: biggdog at May 4, 2008 08:48 AM
TIVO PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: tabes at May 6, 2008 11:42 AM
Wii me please! Or Tivo...
Posted by: WiiWilli at May 26, 2008 05:42 PM
Yet another request for the Wii
ALSO:
Windows Media Center
PS3
Xbox 360 (via WMC)
and Windows Mobile Devices (or any other smartphone type device (Treo, etc))
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE hurry with this. Technically speaking, its not difficult to do, so what's the hold up?!?!?!?!?!?
Posted by: Deke at May 29, 2008 07:28 AM
Pandora on the iphone... shouldn't I send this comment to apple?
Posted by: appleluvr at June 3, 2008 10:56 PM
Pandora on Verizon PLEASE!
Posted by: Erik at June 11, 2008 07:58 AM
One more for the Wii (and indirectly, the PS3)
I also wouldn't mind a Windows Mobile version :)
Posted by: bobfunk at June 11, 2008 07:18 PM
Alright, i'm getting tired of using finetune.
Please make a Wii compatible Pandora.
Posted by: WiiMan at June 23, 2008 08:51 PM
Arrggg, its been a month and no Pandora on Verizon! I need my Pandora fix, help!
Posted by: Tyler at June 24, 2008 02:15 PM
I Would like it for the wii and also
Windows mobile 6.1 version would be nice too
Posted by: josh at June 30, 2008 04:42 PM
Yet another vote for the Wii. As soon as I started really using Pandora recently (at work) I went straight home and plugged in the URL in the Wii browser. Much to my dismay - "no workie"! So... I found out that it's because of the version of Flash player that's baked into the Opera browser (can only play Flash 7). Adobe released some sort of Flash kit that sounds like it could work with the Wii browser, but Opera/Nintendo will need to get it updated.
I'd love to get some feedback from the Pandora folks on this though...
Posted by: Tony at July 1, 2008 11:44 AM
i can't wait for pandora on iPhone!!!!! is it going to be as one of the free apps?????
Posted by: LUisRS at July 4, 2008 01:46 PM
