Pandora applet url change

Since this is applet-specific, this needs to go into the awn-extras bug tracker.

What version of awn-extras are you using?

The Pandora applet is working for me from trunk. I fixed it last in rev396 on 2008-04-05.

The current url in trunk is:
www.pandora.com/radio/tuner_8_3_0_1_pandora.swf">https://www.pandora.com/radio/tuner_8_3_0_1_pandora.swf

If you are using the last stable release, you'll need to update /pandora/awn-pandora.py where ever your applets are installed to.

Andrew,

The URL for the player has changed to:

https://www.pandora.com/radio/tuner_8_4_0_0_pandora.swf

A quick replace in awn-pandora.py fixed it, no problems.

Fixed in r474.

Is there perhaps a better way to address this? I notice that this breaks not infrequently. As AWN gets more popular it seems sub-optimal to have breakage for all users of this temporarily. Might a better way be to grab the URL each time on demand from a more stable page? IE load the page that links to the player, scrape the URL via a regex or something, and use that. Just a thought!

Something tells me that this would be very unpopular with Pandora.

As a first step I think it would be good to make the URL a configuration option.

I am just noticing on their index page "<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="https://www.pandora.com:443/radio/tuner_8_4_0_0_pandora.swf">". That would be really easy to grab, and that page is only 16k, which I imagine is small compared to the applet itself. I would be happy to implement this feature if anyone thinks it is useful, grabbing the URL on startup of the applet (not each time it is clicked).

Another option could be to host a small text file with the URL in it (does Launchpad allow for this?) and grab that in the applet instead of hardcoding the URL. Maybe even scrape it from a moderated wiki page. Then we can just change that and a new version doesn't need to issued.

A THIRD idea would be to have the URL in a config file, as moonbeam suggested. Then we could wrap the swf grab in a try and if it fails, grab it from pandora.com and write the new one out. That seems like the best of both worlds because it is not hitting any other site normally, except when the URL changes, and then it writes that as the new config value.

Any thoughts?

This seems to have changed as well. I get my updated through Ubuntu's repos. Is there a file I can manually change to update the URL?

Dax

Hi All. I am using the Pandora Applet from AWN in Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit and I am having similar trouble. From what I can tell the awn-extras version is 0.3.2.2-2ubuntu1. Could someone explain in a little more detail where the awn-pandora.py file is and how to make the fix? It would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Patrick