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Pandora Launches Song Replays, More Ad Skips for All

posted by martyb on Friday September 16 2016, @01:19AM   
from the skip-to-my-Lou dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

[Pandora,] the veteran online radio provider said Thursday it will let listeners can[sic] skip more songs and replay tracks if they watch an extra ad. For $5 a month, paid members get those perks without any commercials plus a mode for listening offline, in a revamped subscription called Pandora Plus.

The announcement marks the most substantive change to Pandora's service in years by giving its listeners more control. It's also a step toward the kind of on-demand subscription music service popularized by newer rivals like Spotify and Apple Music.

There's also a github-hosted, command-line-based tool called pianobar that lets you skip all Pandora ads for free.

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Original Submission

• Jango API Crash Course (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @04:09AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @04:09AM (#402615)

  Using only HTTP GET. No scripts needed. Cookies must be enabled.

  Step 1 : GET artist + title [ to tune station to track ] (ignore the output)

  view-source:http://www.jango.com/music/The+Chainsmokers/Closer [view-source]

  Step 2 : GET artist [ to select station ] (ignore the output)

  view-source:http://www.jango.com/music/The+Chainsmokers [view-source]

  Step 3 : GET stream [ to play station ] (JSON output)

  http://www.jango.com/streams/info [jango.com]

  The first thing in the JSON output is a link to your music.

  Step 1 is optional. Step 2 is mandatory. Repeat Step 3 to skip to next track on station.

  Plain ordinary HTML song title search form located at http://www.jango.com/artists/search [jango.com]

  Parent

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  Informative=1, Total=1
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