First, if you haven’t heard about Pandora yet, you should definitely give it a try. It’s a great way of discovering new music and I’m sure you’ll love it!

Lately we received many user requests to add Pandora support to FoxyTunes. While listening to Pandora, our users really missed the convenience of always knowing which track is playing. Also, many of them find themselves looking for the Pandora player among many open tabs or windows, when they want to skip a track or change a station.

Basically, our users wanted the same convenience that FoxyTunes provides with their other media players (Winamp, iTunes etc.).

So, we decided to support Pandora in FoxyTunes. Currently, FoxyTunes will allow you to:

1. See what’s playing on your Pandora.
2. Automatically launch the Pandora Web site and by that the embedded Pandora player, if it isn’t already open.
3. Show the Pandora Web player. This is an interesting feature. If Pandora is running in its own window - this will show that window. If Pandora is running in a tab - “show player” will raise that tab. “Hide player” will return you to the tab you were working in before hitting “Show player”.
4. Volume - you can control the volume and mute. This currently controls your system volume (on Windows, Mac and Linux).
5. Multi platform - the controller works (at least partially) on all platforms.

In future versions, we’ll try to allow pausing and skipping tracks right from FoxyTunes, controlling Pandora’s volume instead of the global one and other useful features.

A related new feature - we call it “Quick Player Switching”. It allows you to see which player is selected and switch between the most used players. The icon of the current player is displayed in the FoxyTunes main menu, along with up to three last players used (if any).

I hope you find all this as useful as we do
Get the new FoxyTunes Preview version (1.3) with Pandora support here.

[edit] Looks like Pandora have changed the way the currently playing track is displayed, so FoxyTunes is no longer able to pick that up. We’ll try to get this fixed and keep you updated. Stay tuned
[update] We fixed this - our latest preview version (1.3.1) can again show what’s playing in your Pandora

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