iPod Pandora? ******** step on in...

[Jagular]

Hey ********!

Figured other folks would be interested in this topic so I didn't just PM you.

My wifey has the iPhone with Pandora and we hooked it to my brand, schpanky new iPod interface in the 645Ci. Of course, after a quick error message on the iPhone when we first hook it up to the interface, we can play mp3s and Apple's proprietary format songs, no problem.

However, when she tried to connect it to Pandora, the iPhone went into airplane mode and wouldn't connect.

So, a couple of questions: when you set the CD number for the iPod interface are you on CD1, CD2, CD3, whatever, when you are playing Pandora? When you bring up Pandora on your iPhone do you also go into airplane mode?

Thanks!

[schulrog]

Hey... well when i first hooked it up i get the brief error message that it's not made for this device bla bla bla. it'll work just won't charge. then it will start playing the ipod music. press the home button on the iphone and select pandora. after that, the app should start up and play pandora. I just tried it both via wifi and via the 3G. works fine.

[schulrog]

Hey Jagular did you get it to work?

[GeneArch]

Might not want to get too comfortable with Pandora.... They may be breathing their last breaths. :(

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503367.html

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Pandora is one of the nation's most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily. Its Music Genome Project allows customers to create stations tailored to their own tastes. It is one of the 10 most popular applications for Apple (http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=AAPL&nav=el)'s iPhone and attracts 40,000 new customers a day.

Yet the burgeoning company may be on the verge of collapse, according to its founder, and so may be others like it.
"We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision," said Tim Westergren (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Tim+Westergren?tid=informline), who founded Pandora. "This is like a last stand for webcasting."



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[schulrog]

damn. pandora was my only "escape" at the client site but that's ok. i guess more people are just going to download music illegally again now

[Jagular]

Yeah, I saw that release. Sucks. Last.FM is also available. I would also think you could stream a station like Radio Paradise through the iPhone, as well.

My wife has the iPhone (my company provides a Blackberry for me and I have a hand-me-down girlie Nano :) ), so I haven't tried again.