Pandora on touch (and other streaming music solutions)

[MakeMoves]

Updated Sep 15th

So it seems like there is currently no way to play pandora on the touch. There are however some good alternatives that work with the Skyfire browser.

1. Last.fm *RECOMMENDED* - actually has a lot more selection and diversity than pandora. also allows you to play any song at will, unlimited skips, and make a playlist. I think you can only make one station, not several like pandora. This is a great one for international music (gotta have my zouk)

2. Jango.com *RECOMMENDED* - very similar to pandora and with more options. Also lets you create several stations and play songs on demand. Also lets you customize song discovery (only popular, diversity, or in the middle). Another cool feature is that when a song is playing you can choose out of several songs to play next. Interface works very well with skyfire.

3. Slacker.com

4. Live365.com - Lots of streaming radio in a flash player.

Without Skyfire it seems like we can only listen to streams such as can be found on Shoutcast.com

Thanks to all that contributed to this thread, a lot of these i've never heard of before. Please keep on sharing if anyone knows any more.

[elmariachi]

From what I understand there is currently no way to easily use pandora on a WM device. I have actualy written pandora and they responded that they are working on a app for WM, they didnt say if it would be a pay service or free. Check out this article, http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=627. When I wrote them an email about it they sent me a free t-shirt, they seem like cool guys over there. I cant wait for this the app to be finished...

[jayr00]

Yeah they are pretty cool...I believe they were just a group of friends in college who decided to start that software. I've been using it for years and I love it! I'm with ya on the WM app...I'm waiting anxiously for something to come out.

[mfpreach]

isn't Pandora going out of business or something?

[fldash]

That's the rumor. RIAA licensing fees are costing them too much.

[pg2k3]

They were too busy developing a free Pandora App for the I-Phone. Thats why we don't have one yet. Anyway, I would be more than happy to pay their $36 annual fee to use this on my phone add free.

[MakeMoves]

Originally Posted by jayr00

Yeah they are pretty cool...I believe they were just a group of friends in college who decided to start that software. I've been using it for years and I love it! I'm with ya on the WM app...I'm waiting anxiously for something to come out.

Ye sucks, i was hoping it would work on skyfire since it plays almost all flash sites. It didnt work for me, Any one get it to work?

I also tried yahoo music but they dont work on anything but explorer.

Still seacrching for a good streaming solution for the touch (besides youtube)

[ny152]

for music try accuradio... lots of good music type selections

[ny152]

Here's something else to try... it's a DESKTOP app, not for the PPC, but you can use Nexus Radio to record music to play on your PPC. Here's the link:

http://www.nexusradio.com/

[MakeMoves]

Originally Posted by ny152

for music try accuradio... lots of good music type selections

thanks, i found some more as well.

Shoutcast stations work, with tcmp.

Also Live 365 works perfectly with skyfire.