I second Roger's praises of this program. I have been enjoying Pandora for the last few months on my Android phone, and for the last week on my new iPod Touch, both of which have totally accessible apps. It's great to now be able to use it on the PC.
If you are a music lover, it is well worth the ten dollars, even if all you have is the free version of Pandora. ~Ann On 1/7/2011 7:38 PM, Roger R. Cusson wrote: > > > Greetings Folks, > > > With the very recent initial software release of a truly wonderful Pandora > third party interface known as: HOPE, a blind-friendly approach for Pandora, > we are now on equal footing with all of the other Pandora Radio listeners > out there. > > For the uninitiated, Pandora Radio, found at: > > http://www.pandora.com > > is a very innovative web site, that seeks to allow users to set up various > radio stations, based on their musical preferences, both by individual > artist and or specific genres. > > The Pandora radio site is almost completely unusable by blind folks with > screen reading technology, as they rely on Adobe's extensive use of Flash > technology, to deliver all of the usable web content and adjustments to > account options and the music player. > > Pandora is much more than just a radio or music web site that actually finds > music based upon your specific and wide ranging solutions but I do not feel > like writing all of that crap out. I am not nearly as good as my friend Hap > Holly, is at spinning a good yarn. > > Basically, the visually impaired developer of Qwitter, a third party > application layer gateway for the popular social networking site, Twitter, > has gone and done it again with his extremely unique approach to Pandora. > Based on some Python programming skills, and some excellent use of the > Pandora very secret XML technology, he has made a completely accessible > interface to the Pandora site... > > It is $10.00 which seems to be a one time purchase for as many updates as he > can try to write, before his fingers fall off. > > The developer, Chris Toth has made a truly usable interface to Pandora. Once > you configure a few stations, either based on artist or genre, you will > never listen to Internet radio quite the same way again. No commercials, no > speaking in between the tracks, just good music of all styles. > > Pandora uses your suggestions to essentially pick songs and artists in or > close to the same musical style or genre/sound. > > It is unbelievable!!! > > Chris with his HOPE application has made the Pandora experience completely > blind-friendly by eliminating having to even use the Pandora site. > > A blind user cannot even independently create their initial account on the > Pandora's.com web site. With H O P E, all all all things are usable and all > account creation, and all of the same interactions that a sighted user would > experience, have been built directly into Pandora's third party gateway, H O > P E. > > The H O P E program can be found at: > > http://q-continuum.net/hope/ > > I want everyone who is interested to visit Chris's site, and ask him > questions and of course purchase the program to further the development of > HOPE. > > Believe me, from a fellow who has used Pandora since 2006, his program was > well worth waiting for. > > Check it out, and hope you enjoy the accessible experience that HOPE brings > to Pandora.com > > If anyone wants to contact the Pandora support staff, in case they have > questions or want to purchase for 36 bucks per year, a unlimited listening > experience, please e-mail: > > supp...@pandora.com > > The subscription process is only technically open to U.S. subscribers, > unless, you happen to have a proxy gateway to make it look like you are in > fact in the U.S. That is another discussion for another time... > > Respectfully submitted, > > > Roger R. Cusson > Computer Access Specialist > Seeing Hands Enterprises - Lisbon, Maine > (207) 353-5007 > Skype Contact: rcusson > > A quote to live by: > Any program that works perfectly, just hasn't been tested properly!" > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > -- Skype: tate886 Google Voice: 1-872-222-8799 http://www.fanfiction.net/~mauryn To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
