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Pandora's new native Mac app streams music, not podcasts

Pandora is rolling out new desktop apps for its streaming music listeners, starting with Mac. This morning, the company announced the launch of a native desktop app for Mac, with a Windows version to soon follow. The app supports keyboard controls, on-screen notifications for the music currently playing and a fashion to control Pandora's new "Modes" feature for customizing the music you lot hear on your Pandora stations.

Introduced just a couple of months ago, Pandora Modes switches up the archetype listening experienceby letting you tweak your stations to favor deep cuts, or crowd favorites, new releases, specific artists and more. The idea is to give users more control over how Pandora'due south customization algorithms piece of work, without requiring users build out their ain playlists to get the same feel.

On the desktop app, switching modes is easy. From the At present Playing screen, yous just click on one of the diverse options to tune your station, as you currently do on mobile.

Meanwhile, to apply the keyboard controls characteristic, you lot demand to enable Accessibility permissions in the Mac's settings. You tin can and so utilise your Mac keyboard to practice things like play, pause, replay, skip, shuffle or thumbs up or down the songs. These are the same set of controls that are available from the web, and are detailed in 1 of the app's menus. They work when the app is in the foreground only.

Equally your songs play, notifications appear on the screen when the app that details the song title, artist and anthology for whatever music is currently playing.

Overall, there's nothing all that remarkable about the Pandora desktop — it's a clean, merely designed native app that makes Pandora easier to use. But many people today adopt a native desktop app to a spider web browser experience — especially for features similar the notifications, keyboard controls and because yous don't have to dig effectually through a bunch of browser tabs to find Pandora as you piece of work on other things in your browser.

Withal, equally a Mac app for streaming music, it begs comparisons to Apple'due south iTunes. It offers a much different feel, with the latter as well including a music library and download store, simply a more express radio experience that lacks the tuning offered by "Modes." Pandora has besides been integrating with parent company SiriusXM — both services include the information-powered Pandora NOW station, for example, and at present Pandora Stories includes those from SiriusXM guests.

What is missing from the desktop app, however, are podcasts.

For Apple, Spotify, Pandora and others, podcasts have been a large and growing focus in contempo months. Pandora launched a Podcast Genome Project, and today even features a number of podcasts sourced from SiriusXM'southward talk shows. Just these and others weren't available when nosotros searched. They're also not showing above the "Featured Playlists" section in Browse, as they practise on mobile. (Pandora says podcasts are "currently mobile only," just didn't offering more details.)

The company previously offered a Mac app that launched with Pandora One in 2009, simply the app was discontinued in 2018.

Pandora says a Windows desktop app will also come before long, simply didn't provide an ETA.