pianobar

pianobar is a free/open-source, console-based client for the personalized online radio Pandora.

Features

play and manage (create, add more music, delete, rename, ...) stations
rate songs and explain why they have been selected
upcoming songs/song history
customize keybindings and text output (see configuration example)
remote control and eventcmd interface (send tracks to last.fm, for example)
proxy support for listeners outside the USA

Download

There are community provided packages available for most Linux distributions (see your distribution’s package manager), Mac OS X (via homebrew) and *BSD as well as a native Windows port.

The current pianobar release is 2024.12.21 (sha256, sign). More recent and experimental code is available at GitHub and the local gitweb. Older releases are available here:

FAQ

The audio output does not work as expected. What can I do?: pianobar uses libao and most problems are related to a broken libao configuration. Have a look at issue #167 for example.
Can I donate money? Do you have a Flattr/Bitcoin/… account?: No, money is not necessary to continue working on pianobar. There are many other ways to support pianobar: Reporting bugs, creating cool stuff based on pianobar, blogging about it and the most important one: Keeping Pandora alive.

External projects

Addons

control-pianobar: Scripts that interact with pianobar entirely through notification bubbles and hotkeys
pianobar.el: Emacs interface for pianobar
pianobar-mediaplayer2: Control pianobar like any other media player through DBUS/MPRIS.
PianobarNowPlayable: Integrate pianobar with the Now Playing feature of macOS

Clients

pithos: Python/GTK desktop client
pianod: Pandora UNIX daemon, based on pianobar
Hermes: Pandora Client for OS X

Standalone devices

PandoraBar: Beagleboard-based radio device running pianobar
Pandora’s Box: Raspberry Pi-based standalone devices running pianobar