I wish that I could get the Pandora application on my TiVo. I’m assuming that you know what TiVo is by now. Pandora, www.pandora.com, allows end users to create and (more importantly) train streaming internet stations so that they only play the music that you like. I’m listening to Pandora as I write this post. Anyhow, TiVo allows you to rate shows with a “thumbs up, thumbs down” button on the remote. Pandora allows you to rate songs with a “thumbs up, thumbs down” control on the user interface. If I could stream music from pandora via my Tivo, I’d use it all day long. I think this would be a bigger win for TiVo than it would be for Pandora.
Last thought on this – TiVo used to have a relationship with MoodLogic, which would allow for the TiVo to stream autogeneretated playlists on your .mp3 collection. This was a pretty good application that overcame a lot of the limitations of the built in .mp3 player in the TiVo – namely, that the TiVo application craps out / becomes unusable with a list of more than about 2000 .mp3’s due to memory limitations and timeout errors. But, alas, moodlogic is defunct and I can no longer add new songs to my library and have them categorized.
I had one more thought – TiVo should reposition themselves as an application delivery platform for home entertainment and REALLY ENCOURAGE 3rd parties and hobbyists to develop applications that can be run on the TiVo. Imagine – Flick’r or Webshots on your TiVo – for example.
Maybe the TiVo folks are listening? Evidence suggests not.
July 21, 2008 at 9:17 pm |
The thing is, Pandora doesn’t even have to make an agreement with TiVo… They just need to make an HME app and provide the URL and then you add it to your TiVo yourself.
It’s a pretty simple open format using XML. If Pandora’s API was open, I’d write it myself. I’ve been dying for this app for the past couple of years and they’ve never addressed it.
Pandora has basically ignored all the pleas for TiVo support all the way back to 2006 but they hopped on the iPhone bandwagon right away (and that required a specialized app, not just another interface to their pre-existing web-based system).
September 15, 2008 at 12:01 am |
yeah – the guys at Pandora are lost, there is no wonder why developers have to resort to cleaver hacks to extend their services – sadly this is one of the biggest factors contributing to Pandora’s soon to be end – It will be a sad day………
PLEASE EXPOSE YOUR API – think of all the wonderful apps that will spring up – you know, the ones you couldn’t write yourselves !!!
youtube, digg, google, yahoo all have exposed services – please get with the times…