From the desktop of Joseph Dickson
Sitting back, enjoying a New England IPA and listening to upbeat 2010’s alternative music streaming on Pandora Radio while I do some light coding of my opengraph plugin. The wallpaper feature is by Rootkit via Wallhaven.
Some casual coding to get me back into web development for my personal use. Ever since late 2022 when I lost my Drupal front-end development job I haven’t done much. My current role is in communications and visual design, I miss making things on the web.
Pandora Radio is trying to tell me something very important after a long week.
If I had to pick my most used terminal app that would be #Pianobar, a simple Pandora radio client for #Linux.
If I had to pick my most used terminal app that would be Pianobar, a simple Pandora radio client for Linux.
The no frills simplicity is a feature. With everything I’ve got running on my laptop at any given moment It’s not anywhere near the resource hog of a web browser.
Setting it up is simple, create a folder named pianobar within your home directory’s .config folder and add a file named config. In my case that’s… “~/.config/pianobar/config”
This file will contain the audio quality, auto start station number from Pandora Radio’s URL, password and user’s email address
audio_quality = high
autostart_station = 139945058418070847
password = PandoraRadioAccountPassword
user = useremail@domain.dev.cc
Once up and running you can perform almost every task within Pandora Radio’s station management feature. However, Pianobar doesn’t support album collections, at least not yet. It’s no exaggeration that the only reason I’ve maintained a paid Panodra account for the last 10 years is because of this lightweight unofficial terminal client.