Monday, October 23, 2006
OpenPandora: Taking Pandora out of the Browser
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Users of Pandora, the music discovery service, will welcome OpenPandora, which takes Pandora out of the browser and onto your desktop. It adds hiding to the system tray, control with a multimedia keyboard (play, pause, and skip), lyrics in a browser window, and integration with Last.fm, Microsoft Messenger, and Xfire. You can also copy song details to the clipboard.
Global shortcuts are a handy way to control the player.
Some more features:
- Hide to tray
- Show song details in tray icon tooltip
- Popup tray notification balloon
- Full control from tray icon - station change, play, pause, skip, like or don't like
- Control with multimedia keyboard (play, pause and skip)
- Global shortcuts*
- Mini Player*
- Send song details to Last.fm
- Send song details to Microsoft Messanger ("What I'm Listening To" must be turned on)
- Send song details to Xfire*
- Display lyrics in external browser window (from Tools menu)
- Copy song details to clipboard (from Tools menu)
- Customizable title with song and artist names
- Keep on top of other windows
- Proxy support
- Paying users support
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