Pithos: A Pandora.com player for the GNOME desktop
Pithos now has its own web site. Click here for the most updated information about Pithos
Pithos is my Pandora client for the GNOME Desktop. The official Flash-based client is a CPU hog, and Pianobar is command-line only. Neither integrate with the desktop very well, missing things like media key support and song notifications. I used libpiano, the backend of pianobar, to create a better Pandora player.
Pithos is already fairly stable and has most of the features of the official Flash version, but there are a few major bugs and important features missing.
You can find the source on launchpad. The UI is Python and pyGTK, but the libpiano backend is written in C.
I also made a PPA with packages for Ubuntu 9.04. You can install an updating Pithos daily build with:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kevin-mehall/pithos-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pithos
Features currently supported
- Play / Pause / Next Song
- Switching stations
- Remembering user name and password
- Cover Art
- Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down / Tired of this song
- Notification popup with song info
- Launching pandora.com song info page and station page
- Reconnecting when pandora session times out
Coming Soon
- Editing QuickMix
- Creating stations
- Adding songs to stations
- Media Key support
- Browsing genre stations
- Proxy support
Please do not report bugs in the comments below. Bugs are handled on Launchpad
