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Pandora for Android gets massive update

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Lyrics can be displayed when available

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Pandora for Android allows you to hear your favorite artists and others who are similar in style. It's like you took over as the programmer for a a radio station playing nothing but your favorite tunes.  The app was in need of a major, ahem, tune-up (get it? tune as in tunes as in music, ah never mind...) and  Pandora obliged. If you think that the new UI looks more Androidy, to coin a word, you'd be right as the app now follows Google's UI guidelines.

Some of the changes include a blue and white color theme, larger album covers (more on the covers later) and with the reworked song history, you can review, rate or bookmark songs you've previously played. And the album covers can now be minimized to reveal artist bios, song lyrics, similar artists and songs, and the features of the track that put it on the play list of your personal radio station.

If you liked Pandora on Android before, you're really going to love it now. You can download the updated Pandora for free from the Google Play Store.

source: GooglePlayStore, MobileBurn

Screenshots from updated Pandora app for Android
Screenshots from updated Pandora app for Android
Screenshots from updated Pandora app for Android

Screenshots from updated Pandora app for Android



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1. tidus28 posted on 23 Aug 2012, 14:18 4 7

hopefully its finally as good as pandora on an iphone

2. iHateCrapple posted on 23 Aug 2012, 14:48 5 2

Same app isn't it? Or are you just being a stuffy cr@pple customer?

7. beefsupreme posted on 23 Aug 2012, 16:06 5

No, the android version is garbage because it always cuts off the ends of songs. The few times I've used the apple version I've never had that problem.

11. Non_Sequitur posted on 23 Aug 2012, 18:01 2 1

No it doesn't. xD I use it all the time.

9. tidus28 posted on 23 Aug 2012, 17:10 1 1

its the same app just doesnt work as smooth the android version takes 30 seconds just to lead the next song when you hit next

10. Sparhawk posted on 23 Aug 2012, 17:57 4

Mine doesn't take 30 seconds, closer to 3-5 seconds, but I'm on VZW 4G LTE, so that might be a network difference, not an app issue.

13. Lucas777 posted on 23 Aug 2012, 21:04

the android one previously did not show the amount of time of the track like the ios app did-- idk if it does now either i have not downloaded the new one-- but this really annoyed me

but the apple one had some more features and was slightly easier to use

3. ph00ny posted on 23 Aug 2012, 15:01 1 10

People still use pandora?

4. nicholassss posted on 23 Aug 2012, 15:27 6

I use it every night at the gym. Am I behind the times?

12. Orbitman posted on 23 Aug 2012, 19:07 2

I know I do because I'm too lazy to pick what I want to hear lol pandora just does it for me =)

16. squeeb posted on 26 Aug 2012, 21:53

Pandora is awesome. You sir suck!

5. GoBears posted on 23 Aug 2012, 15:36

Pandora is great. It's all I listen to anymore.

6. JGuinan007 posted on 23 Aug 2012, 15:57

Is it better than Slacker radio?

14. PotDragon posted on 23 Aug 2012, 21:07

Not really. Kind of a preference thing though; which interface you find most accessible and which tune cycle matches your tastes.

Rhapsody blows them both away....but not free. Shrug.

8. IHatePhones posted on 23 Aug 2012, 16:21 1

I'd say it looks more "Facebooky" than "Androidy"..

15. BattleBrat posted on 23 Aug 2012, 23:28 1

I have tried ALL the major music services, and Pandora is the worst, Slacker is the best followed by Spotify, rhapsody was good, I'm thinking of axing Hulu+ and subscribing to rhapsody again, mog was meh, Sony music unlimited is OK.

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