If you have homebrew installed, just simply "brew install pianobar".
Pianobar command-line Pandora client
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Re: Pianobar command-line Pandora client
#12its worth mentioning that mac homebrew already has a formula for installing this, and it builds and runs without a hitch.
Forgive the totally off-topic thread, but is Homebrew generally considered mature/stable?
I remember reading about it a year or so ago and being slightly skeeved out by the chmod and chown voodoo you had to do to install it. Skimming over the Homebrew install script seems like it does a lot of similar stuff, which seems strange for a package manager that claims isolated installation of packages in user-land.
And is it intended to completely replace MacPorts, or do they place nice together?
Re: Pianobar command-line Pandora client
#13If you're running Linux and/or Gnome, I have two projects to plug:
Pithos is a Gtk client that uses the core libraries from Pianobar to provide a very nice GUI client for Pandora that fully integrates with the latest Gnome/Ubuntu desktop. http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/
The second is a set of scripts that I wrote that build on top of the Pianobar client itself to implement media keys and notify-osd support for Ubuntu, although it is incomplete because I myself have switched to using Pithos instead. https://github.com/jreese/pianobar-python
Re: Pianobar command-line Pandora client
#14its worth mentioning that mac homebrew already has a formula for installing this, and it builds and runs without a hitch.
Forgive the totally off-topic thread, but is Homebrew generally considered mature/stable? I remember reading about it a year or so ago and being slightly skeeved out by the chmod and chown voodoo you had to do to install it. Skimming over the Homebrew install script seems like it does a lot of similar stuff, which seems strange for a package manager that claims isolated installation of packages in user-land. And is i…
It makes /usr/local owned by the current user rather than root. Not much in the way of voodoo. ;)
It's basically a replacement for MacPorts.
Re: Pianobar command-line Pandora client
#15I've used the pianobar client for a long time. (I'm on Linux and there's no official native client.) It breaks every so often and you have to wait a day or so for it to get fixed. A 'feature' of this unofficial client is that it doesn't play any of the ads on free Pandora accounts. So Pandora probably isn't very happy with that.
Re: Pianobar command-line Pandora client
#16I use it as well, and have been meaning to dig into the code to setup automatic login and playing. I think the stream that it accesses is completely advertising-free too. But I would gladly listen to the pandora ads on it since it runs with SO MUCH LESS memory and CPU than any other player.
I think the stream that it accesses is completely advertising-free too.
I don't think it has to do with the stream. When an ad comes up it just fetches a new playlist.
Re: Pianobar command-line Pandora client
#17its worth mentioning that mac homebrew already has a formula for installing this, and it builds and runs without a hitch.
Forgive the totally off-topic thread, but is Homebrew generally considered mature/stable? I remember reading about it a year or so ago and being slightly skeeved out by the chmod and chown voodoo you had to do to install it. Skimming over the Homebrew install script seems like it does a lot of similar stuff, which seems strange for a package manager that claims isolated installation of packages in user-land. And is i…
Been using it as a replacement for MacPorts for many months. Works well, easy to maintain. I like it.
Re: Pianobar command-line Pandora client
#18I love pianobar- I use it daily and love the fact that it uses very little emory especially compared to the Flash-based official clients.
I'm not sure what the official Pandora position regarding pianobar is, but I did hear from an employee that they have worked to disable it in the past.
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Re: Pianobar command-line Pandora client
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forgive the totally off-topic thread, but is Homebrew generally considered mature/stable? I remember reading about it a year or so ago and being slightly skeeved out by the chmod and chown voodoo you had to do to install it. Skimming over the Homebrew install script seems like it does a lot of similar stuff, which seems strange for a package manager that claims isolated installation of packages in user-land. And is i…
It makes /usr/local owned by the current user rather than root. Not much in the way of voodoo. ;) It's basically a replacement for MacPorts.
See this section of the hierarchical filesystem guidelines for unix-like OSes:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY
and in particular:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHI...
Isn't root supposed to own that?