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A Native Pandora Radio Client for Windows
Elpis is a free and open source Pandora client for Microsoft Windows. It was created to provide a simple, lightweight and seamless way to enjoy music through Pandora while freeing you from the confines of a web browser and integrating into the desktop.
Features
- Simple desktop application for subscription and free accounts
- View, Sort and Select Stations
- Play, Pause, Skip Song
- Cover and Artist Art
- Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Tired of Song
- Save user credentials and automatic login
- Automatically play last station at launch
- System tray notification with song info
- Minimize to system tray
- Launch pandora.com info page for song, artist, album and station
- Automatically reconnects on session timeout (no more “Are you still listening…”)
- Creating stations
- Edit QuickMix
- Create Station from playing Song/Artist
- Add new artist, song, or composer seed to current stations
- Media Key support (Global and Application level)
- More to be added soon…
Screenshots
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Donate
I’ve had a great time creating Elpis and happily offer it up to the world for free. But all the hardware, software and caffeine used in it’s creation are not. If you feel that Elpis has enriched your life in any way, consider donating.
Requirements
Elpis will run anywhere that the Microsoft .NET 4.0 Framework will run. In other words, Windows XP SP3, Vista, and Windows 7. The actual hardware requirements are practically negligible, it actually uses less memory than the HTML5 web version running in a modern browser like Chrome.
Afraid you might not have .NET 4.0 or don’t know what it is? No worries, if you are running the Windows 7 SP1 and have Windows Update enabled, you’ve already got it. If not and the installer finds that it’s not installed, it will automatically download and install it for you. It only takes a few minutes.
Download
Latest Version (v0.9.6)
Zip Archive (In case firewalls/anti-virus blocks .exe file downloads)
All downloads hosted on Google Code
Source Code
For the developers out there, all of the source code for Elpis is hosted on Google Code, see any of the following links for more information: – Google Code Project Page – Current Issues List – Source Code Browser
Other Links
Elsewhere on the Web
Questions
Have a question about Elpis? Check out the FAQ
Important Note:
Elpis was created out of a great love for the service provided by Pandora Media, Inc. But Pandora is still a business and if we all want to continue to enjoy the great product, through Elpis or otherwise, it is strongly suggested that you support them in any way possible. Purchasing a Pandora One subscription is one of the best ways and allows you to stream the music in even better quality (192kbps MP3 – Change it in Elpis settings after subscribing). If you do not subscribe, please at least visit pandora.com and click on the ad links or click on any of the Title, Artist or Album text from within Elpis to be taken to the pandora.com info page for it and buy the song or the album. Every time you do this, Pandora gets a cut of the sale.
Elpis and it’s creator are not affiliated with or endorsed by Pandora Media, Inc.
ISSUES OR FEATURE REQUESTS – PLEASE READ
If you have an issue or feature request, please do not leave a comment about it. Instead, please submit the issue or feature request on the Google Code site. If you leave a comment I will just ask you to create an official request anyways.
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I’ve been getting a lot more attention from non-English speaking users as of late, so thought that I would mention: I only speak English, so I’m not able to do so, but if there are any developers out there that would be interested in helping me add translated text to Elpis (it would require pulling out all the text into a separate resource and then, of course, actually doing the translation) I would be more than happy to work with you to get it into future versions. Just not something I can do myself.
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Interesting that you named the product elpis—Greek for hope.
Haven’t tried the s/w yet—saw it recommended on Lifehacker. I have a Pandora One subscription. I’ll probably come back and donate on your next upgrade.
Working great on Win7, it rocks! Keep up the awesome work!
Can this work via proxy servers? I use a SOCKS proxy to access Pandora
Unfortunately, there is no support currently. I will try to add it in the future, but have had little time lately.
intereating! new feature possibility, post what u r listening to on facebook and or other social networks or other IM clients.
Please allow custom proxy settings, thanks.
Heyas, great Program! Quick question: Are there volume controls somewhere, or am I missing something? And if not, does that mean I’ll have to open Pandora in the browser to set it? I like to stream Pandora while I’m gaming out, and often alt/tab to adjust the volume.
Thanx for your time and efforts!
Currently volume is just set to whatever your system volume is. If you have Windows 7, you can still set the volume for individual programs in the volume slider window.
I will probably add volume controls in Elpis soon.
it would be nice to have lyrics in future editions, great software though. I hate having to go through my browser
Hello,
Great job..many thanks.
Is there a minor rendering issue. Composer Eugene Bozza. Te second “e” in Eugene has a grave accent. Elpis does not like this and creates garbage.
Peter
Peter,
Please log a bug here: http://code.google.com/p/elpis-pandora-client/issues/list
And provide screenshots of the rendering issues.
Great job, I would love custom proxy support for Elpis, and improved volume controls. I see great future on your work!!!
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I am wondering if this will ever work with screen readers or other adaptive technology. sure there is Hope, accessible pandora but i really like thissoftware better. as a matter of fact, i would love to be accessibility beta tester if you don’t mind….
Hey… I can’t say I even being to know how to make it compatible with such technologies. I will look into it though and will definitely send you a beta if I do add the ability.
Great work. First time i ever donated to anyone. just a buck but this is worth it (more of course). Keep it up.
i think i will use more Pandora thanks to this little app.
Any chance of making an app of Elpis for android?
In theory it would be possible to use the underlying Pandora API I wrote on android via Mono for Android (since it’s .NET) but everything else would have to be a ground-up rewrite. So, no not really. But if anyone wants to use the libraries for an App I’ll provide support where I can.
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yah scrobbling to lastfm would be awesome :/
Hopefully I’ll have time to do that shortly.
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Is it possible to add one more option from web Pandora “Move track to another playlist” ?
btw, great work anyway
File an enhancement request here ( http://code.google.com/p/elpis-pandora-client/issues/list ) and I will look into it.
First your Program is amazing and lightweight and looks nice on the desktop !
Feature requests ..
1. When using quick mix , and something is playing you can not tell what station that song comes from. example your are quick mixing sation A / B and C , a song plays you don’t know where its playing from , so you do not know to thumbs up or down .
2. Any way you could make a Windows 7 gadget of this ?
Thanks!
1) If you open the menu for the some and click on the info button it will take you to the pandora page for that song and it should tell you which station it’s from. But I can definitely look into integrating it into the app itself. Please create an official request here: http://code.google.com/p/elpis-pandora-client/issues/list
2) To my knowledge, Windows 7 gadgets are implemented in HTML and Javascript, so unfortunately the answer is no. It would have to be completely rewritten from scratch.
Love this app, would like to see an “exit” option in the tray icon!
Thanks for creating something so simple and beautiful!
Glad you like it!
I’ll definitely get the exit option in there on the next version. Thanks!
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for proxy usage without a program supporting it one can use a file to give the system custom proxy settings.
windows and mac support this. you can create a file like the following and feed it to the settings.
i called it pandora.pac
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
if (shExpMatch(host, “*.pandora.com”)) return “SOCKS 127.0.0.1:9050″
return “DIRECT”;
}
just found this app, hope it uses less ressources than running pandora as a chrome app.
so far i cant find anything to change the volume Oo
Is there a way to set the play/pause button to a different key? Like my play/pause button my keyboard?
It should support the play/pause button on most keyboards out of the box. As long as the window as focus. If you want it to work regardless of the window being up, go into settings and select “Global Media Keys”.
Ah just relised my top keys are broke gotta love kids. Anyway of setting the play/pause to / isntead of the spacebar because I gamee and I do not utilize that key in my game?
I will look into making them configurable.
Hi Adam,
Thanks for the great app, been looking for something like this for a while since the windows gadget eats tons of memory.
Any way to make the icon transparent/have background? I use a all black screen so it looks like a blank spot on the systray
Thanks. I will look into changing the icon in the future.
Oh no! The pandora api has changed! D:
Here’s hoping for an update, and thank you so much for providing a great app!
Thanks for letting me know! I *think* I’ve figured out how to fix it, but need to do some more testing before just blindly pushing an update. Stay tuned!
Great work and thanks for the great app. I use it all the time. Good luck getting it up and working again!
Thank you for all your hard work on this app!
it seems that elpis cannot authenticate user as of today… “Looks like there was a problem talking to Pandora. Try again or restart Elpis.”
Works latest version Win 7 s64 SP1 just now. Sweet clear sound. Thanks. Hope it holds.