Popular music streaming service Pandora has finished beta testing its new HTML5 web
interface and rolled it out to all users. At the same time they’ve removed the free-user cap of
40 hours per month–listen for free as long as you want.
The new interface is a huge improvement over the old one; the transition away from Flash to
HTML5 has increased speed and includes an interface update. If an interface overhaul doesn’t
excite you, they also removed the cap from the free accounts–free users can listen to as much
music as they wish. Upgrading to a premium account unlocks additional features and removes the ads.
You can read more about the changes at Pandora in their official announcement at the link below.
New Pandora For All [Pandora via Tech Crunch]
interface and rolled it out to all users. At the same time they’ve removed the free-user cap of
40 hours per month–listen for free as long as you want.
The new interface is a huge improvement over the old one; the transition away from Flash to
HTML5 has increased speed and includes an interface update. If an interface overhaul doesn’t
excite you, they also removed the cap from the free accounts–free users can listen to as much
music as they wish. Upgrading to a premium account unlocks additional features and removes the ads.
You can read more about the changes at Pandora in their official announcement at the link below.
New Pandora For All [Pandora via Tech Crunch]
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
New Pandora for All
Today is a big day for Pandora: after more than a year of planning, design, engineering, and beta testing we're launching an entirely new Pandora website.
In late 2010 we started with a clean sheet of paper, challenging ourselves to create a new internet radio experience that was fast, social, and easy while still being familiar to the tens of millions of people that listen to Pandora each month.
The result is "New Pandora" -- the same personalized radio experience you've enjoyed for years, wrapped in a new HTML5 look that makes it more responsive, easier to use, and better integrated with the friends and music lovers in your life. We also think it looks more beautiful than ever, but we're biased.
For the last two months we've been gradually rolling a preview of the new site out to our listeners, taking their feedback, fixing bugs and making improvements here and there. With all those little fixes and refinements in place, today we're rolling out the new site for everyone.
Some of our new features include:
Simplified Station Creation - Enhanced auto-complete choices and personalized suggestions make creating new stations and discovering new music or comedy more intuitive and personal.
Discovery of Music with Friends - Enhanced listener profiles and a new music feed offer a centralized place to find, like and comment on what friends and like-minded listeners are discovering and enjoying on Pandora. The music feed will roll out slowly over the course of the coming days. In addition to the prominent new "share" button, stations now have their own URLs, making it super easy for listeners to share favorite stations via Twitter, Facebook, or email.
Improved Control - Prominent and ubiquitous access to familiar player control buttons including Play, Pause, Thumbs-Up and Thumbs-Down icons helps listeners to easily personalize their music and comedy stations. A new shuffle feature also allows listeners to shuffle any collection of stations to add variety to their listening experience.
Enhanced Artist Information - An option to learn more about the music, find lyrics, read artists' biographies and expand the album art size.
Unlimited listening - We've removed the 40 hours listening cap - you can now listen as much as you want for free.
The new social feed will roll out over the next few days to everyone and we want to remind you that you control of how others see your Pandora profile page and listening activity. Here's a link to view and to edit your privacy settings. http://www.pandora.com/#/account/privacy
We'd love to hear what you think of our latest project. To let us know what you think, to get help, or to find answers please visit http://help.pandora.com.
Posted by Tom Conrad at September 20, 2011 1:26 PM
