Pandora?

[Qualm]

Originally Posted by darkshadow46236

There is a discussion about this on howardforums too. Someone from Pandora chimed in saying the problem is since they use flash streams to send the music, they need flash running on the WM devices to make it work (that or transcode everything they have into a pure mp3/wma stream and make a app to use those).

It gets worse - Adobe isn't letting anyone except the OEM's install flash (so they can't bundle it with a app). So until Adobe either lets them bundle a flash 9 implementation (which Pandora does have, working) they can't do much, even though they want to.

Actually that was me, and I work for a direct competitor of Pandora, not Pandora itself. We have the same problem, which you will find with almost everyone in the Flash streaming business who has designed or re-designed their core player features in the past 2 years.

Namely, that we rely on Flash 8 and Flash 9 specification features, which Adobe supports in Flash Lite 3, which will be an OEM bundle only, and which obviously is not shipping. Hopefully, it will be sooner rather than later - if it takes much longer (> 3-6 months), Adobe is going to have a lot of upset partners, my company included.