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 2022.04.01 (sha256, sign). More recent and experimental code is available at GitHub and the local gitweb. Older releases are available here:
- 2020.11.28 (sha256, sign)
- 2020.04.05 (sha256, sign)
- 2019.02.14 (sha256, sign)
- 2019.01.25 (sha256, sign)
- 2018.06.22 (sha256, sign)
- 2017.08.30 (sha256, sign)
- 2016.06.02 (sha256, sign)
- 2015.11.22 (sha256, sign)
- 2014.09.28 (sha256, sign)
- 2014.06.08 (sha256, sign)
- 2013.09.15 (sha256, sign)
- 2013.05.19 (sha256, sign)
- 2012.12.01 (sha256, sign)
- 2012.09.07 (sha256, sign)
- 2012.06.24 (sha256, sign)
- 2012.05.06 (sha256, sign)
- 2012.04.24 (sha256, sign)
- 2012.01.10 (sha256, sign)
- 2011.12.11 (sha256, sign)
- 2011.11.11 (sha256, sign)
- 2011.11.09 (sha256, sign)
- 2011.09.22 (sha256, sign)
- 2011.07.09 (sha256, sign)
- 2011.04.27 (sha256, sign)
- 2011.04.10 (sha256, sign)
- 2011.01.24 (sha256)
- 2010.11.06 (sha1)
- 2010.10.07 (sha1)
- 2010.08.21 (sha1)
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
