[REQUEST] Pandora Radio script or plugin addon for XBMC?

I think that Pandora is a must have killer app. It works great under Boxee, but I like the flexibility of xbmc so much more. Not to mention the vdpau support.

I'm attaching the pandora application and source code from boxee. It's just a few python scripts and a skin. I wouldn't imagine it would be that hard to get working on XBMC. I suspect that nobody has tried.

Are any XBMC scripters willing to take a few minutes to check this out and try to figure out what's needed and how to port it. I may have to try to learn python if there's no interest.

http://www.2shared.com/file/5522305/8bf8...ndora.html

It looks like some of the xbmc and scripting work is done by boxeeproxee.pyo. Since it's a compiled python binary, we'll probably either need to get the source or try to decompile it for it to work.

Instead of all the plethora reasons why it cannot be done, lets just do it!

Anybody heard of boxee?

They've got pandora working smoothly inside their interface. Saw it the other day on a Mac laptop, ran smoothly, looked great.

So instead of excuses, lets hear solutions!

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=7621

music2myear Wrote:So instead of excuses, lets hear solutions!

Awesome! What's your solution?

Do we have a Pandora.com solution?

How about Hulu.com?

No to both.

theophile Wrote:No to both.

Is it fair to expect either or both soon? If not, why not? Seems like other "media center" tools have them.

There are numerous other threads about Hulu. My understanding is that you should not be expecting it any time soon. Hulu is making a concerted effort to make sure programs like XBMC cannot access Hulu content the way XBMC does. The reason programs like Boxee have a working plugin is primarily because Boxee uses a flash player just like a web browser and Hulu can't tell the difference. XBMC does not use flash so if it is going to play a stream, it has to have direct access to the data.

As far as Pandora, I think the only reason we don't have it on XBMC yet is because no one has done it or released it yet. You're probably much more likely to see Pandora in the near future.

theophile Wrote:There are numerous other threads about Hulu. My understanding is that you should not be expecting it any time soon. Hulu is making a concerted effort to make sure programs like XBMC cannot access Hulu content the way XBMC does. The reason programs like Boxee have a working plugin is primarily because Boxee uses a flash player just like a web browser and Hulu can't tell the difference. XBMC does not use flash so if it is going to play a stream, it has to have direct access to the data.

As far as Pandora, I think the only reason we don't have it on XBMC yet is because no one has done it or released it yet. You're probably much more likely to see Pandora in the near future.

Thank you!

Any updates on this topic? So far my searches have all led back to this thread