Thread: [application] pyPianobar (with pianobar)
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-03-30 , 04:56
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#140
Originally Posted by Mustafa0319 View Post
Hey, thanks so much for this! Since I love pandora so much, and since you don't have your N900 yet, I made sure to add a little bit of money to your N900 piggy bank
Thank you!!!!! This was greatly appreciated!!

The app has been working well for me so far (I just downloaded it earlier today), and if there's one issue i've been having its that i feel the "tired button" should not be a dash/minus sign. I hit it twice earlier without knowing what it did, and it skipped a couple of my songs. In my opinion, I really believe that you can either use the z's which you had been using in previous updates, or you can do like the Pandora web app, and just have the "I'm tired of this song" as an option in the menu....

But besides that one issue, its been absolutely amazing for me.... now i can change songs on pandora when i'm driving a lot easier than before
I am up for suggestions on anything other than the ZZZ's. ZZZ makes it look too much like a snooze/sleep mode which I have moved to the menu system. Everyone I showed the app to around me at work and such and asked them what they thought "ZZZ" was on a radio app they said Sleep.

If we can come up with a better icon I would gladly put it in place.

For now.. despite the minor annoyances above I do not see anything world-shattering that would prevent promotion of the current pyPianobar to extras and I just got the 10 needed votes!! yay!

Unfortunately, pianobar is also in the user section and it won't let me promote pyPianobar without promoting pianobar first! So please, I need 3 votes on pianobar so I can get them into extras and users enjoying pandora!

I am still looking at (albeit, have had significantly less time of late) trying to find the skipping problem when switching between things. Promy, the author, has contacted me on it and is equally unsure of how to fix it though he had some suggestions where to look. He seemed to think that it had to do with mp3 decoding being a bit processor intensive and may be a touch harsh on the phone: But we don't have an answer as to why the built-in player does not suffer the problem since both apps would need to do the decoding.

Obviously, however Nokia is doing it more optimized for the hardware.

However, both this and the battery consumption issue are beyond my ability to truly debug or work until I have something to reproduce the problem(s) with.

Thanks everyone for the feedback thus far and the support on this app. I truly hope it's helping you all enjoy your new Nokia phones that much more!
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