HD Radio for Pandora For Mac

HD Radio for Pandora is a desktop player designed to connect to your Pandora account and help you listen to radio stations without any limitations imposed by the service.

The HD Radio for Pandora app eliminates the skip restrictions, integrates an ads detection system and automatically skips them, and comes with user-friendly playback control tools.

Right off the bat, HD Radio for Pandora prompts you for the credentials to connect with the Pandora music service. Once you are in, you will be able to see the list of radio stations in the HD Radio for Pandora’s main window.

Once you select one of the entries, HD Radio for Pandora will start playing the music, and you get to see details about the currently playing song, together with info about the band, and similar artists.

Worth mentioning is that if you switch the station or skip the song too often, the Pandora music service will consider it bot activity, and you will not be able to access the service for a time (around one hour).

In the top area of the HD Radio for Pandora’s main window, you get to search for a specific station, or control the playback of the current track and adjust the volume. You get to mark songs as favorite or press the dislike button to take them out of your playlist.

HD Radio for Pandora also comes with system-wide hotkeys for controlling the playback that can be personalized by the user. The companion status bar menulet displays the album artwork and also integrates the like and dislike buttons.

Last but not least, HD Radio for Pandora offers you the option to create a new radio station based on the track or the artist: the entire procedure is reduced to merely making the appropriate selection from a drop down menu.

Bottom line, HD Radio for Pandora delivers a well-organized space where you get to access and manage your Pandora radio stations. The app integrates user-friendly playback controls, provides details about the artist and also displays the cover art.

However, the most interesting functions are related to the way in which the app deals with the Pandora service: the utility can detect and skip ads, provides unlimited skip options, and does not rely on the Adobe Flash Player for the playback.