Hi, Yes, I am listening to Pandora as I write this. I haven't done an exhaustive run-through, but as far as I can tell, it's quite accessible and has lots of cool features like being able to see lyrics and find out about the style of music the song falls under, etc.
There are just a couple of things I haven't figured out yet. There are two "thumbs up" buttons right next to one another. I haven't asked a sighted person yet, cut I'm guessing one of them is a "favorite" button while another may be that you just generally like it. There is something that sounds like 'option up" between the "thumbs down" and "thumbs up" buttons which brings up a cool list of options: start a new station 9based on the current track that's playing), share station, buy on iTunes, bookmark and "I'm tired of this track". That last one is great because I don't like to say "thumbs down" on a song I really like but am tired of because I don't want to banish it forever. I don't know what it does with 'I'm tired of" but imagine maybe it doesn't play that song again for a certain length of time or something. When you're playing a station, there's a labeled button, but I can't understand what it's saying. However, the effect seems to be to take you back to your list of saved stations while continuing to play the one you are listening to. At the top of the screen, there's a window with the artist, song title and album title and a close button if you don't want that to appear. Between the track and album titles is an "expand now plaing" button. If you tap the expand button, you then have a "contract" button in its place. I found this a little confusing at first. When the button says "expand," it means the info is expanded at this time. The expanded info includes infor about the artist, the genre and characteristics of the track and the lyrics though all this info is not available for every track. All in all, I see no reason to stick with the old Pandora. Hope this helps, Jana -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 4:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: pandora update Yesterday, I saw that there is an update for Pandora in the app store. It has a redesigned interface, which always makes me nervous, as I'm sure it does many others on this list. I'm curious if any of you brave souls has tried this app update and has any comments as to its accessibility. Mary Mary Otten [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
