However, as a Mac app for streaming music, it begs comparisons to Apple’s iTunes. But many people today prefer a native desktop app to a web browser experience - especially for features like the notifications, keyboard controls and because you don’t have to dig around through a bunch of browser tabs to find Pandora as you work on other things in your browser. Overall, there’s nothing all that remarkable about the Pandora desktop - it’s a clean, simply designed native app that makes Pandora easier to use. They work when the app is in the foreground only.Īs your songs play, notifications appear on the screen when the app that details the song title, artist and album for whatever music is currently playing.
These are the same set of controls that are available from the web, and are detailed in one of the app’s menus. You can then use your Mac keyboard to do things like play, pause, replay, skip, shuffle or thumbs up or down the songs. Meanwhile, to use the keyboard controls feature, you need to enable Accessibility permissions in the Mac’s settings. From the Now Playing screen, you just click on one of the various options to tune your station, as you currently do on mobile. On the desktop app, switching modes is easy. The idea is to give users more control over how Pandora’s customization algorithms work, without requiring users build out their own playlists to get the same experience. Introduced just a couple of months ago, Pandora Modes switches up the classic listening experience by letting you tweak your stations to favor deep cuts, or crowd favorites, new releases, specific artists and more. The app supports keyboard controls, on-screen notifications for the music currently playing and a way to control Pandora’s new “Modes” feature for customizing the music you hear on your Pandora stations. This morning, the company announced the launch of a native desktop app for Mac, with a Windows version to soon follow. Pandora is rolling out new desktop apps for its streaming music listeners, starting with Mac.
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