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Play/pause pandora.com with a media key

I have a Microsoft keyboard with a play/pause button. Is there a way I can map the play/pause key to the Play/Pause button on the Pandora website? I use Chrome as my browser and am running Windows 7....
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How can I control Pandora via my Mac Keyboard?

How can I use the Play / Pause, and Skip Buttons on my MacBook Pro to control Pandora? I've just got Pandora set up as a dashboard web clip and also have the Pandora Adobe AIR desktop app. I have ...
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How to get Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard play/pause key to control Pandora?

I would like to make the play/pause key on my keyboard stop/resume music in Pandora. How can I do this? It's quite a good keyboard, and fairly common, so I figure someone must know how. My specific ...
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Adding a variety of suggested songs to a Spotify radio station or playlist

I used Pandora until leaving the U.S. for the U.K. Pandora is not available in the U.K., so I am now starting to use Spotify. I only use/used either on a Windows desktop computer. Pandora allows ...
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How can I create a hotkey to play/pause Pandora on OS X?

I'm on OS X and want to have a hotkey (e.g. Cmd-Opt-P) to play/pause Pandora. I've used Butler to set one up for iTunes, but can't find a comparable solution for Pandora. I'm open to any solution (...
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Headphones unplug, Pandora restarts!

I run the Pandora desktop gadget on my Win7 machine at work. I listen w/headphones, but since the headphone jack is on the front of the machine, sometimes my foot catches the cord and pulls it out. ...
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Pandora Desktop, opening browser links

Pandora desktop runs on Adobe Air. Everytime I click a UI button (not browser link) for example 'Station' or 'Play' firefox opens Pandora in the browser. Is this a Pandora Issue, Windows Setting ...
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Is selective VPN routing worth it?

I want to setup routing tables on my RT-N66U router to selectively route traffic through a VPN. For instance, only Pandora requests would go via the VPN. I've found a way to do this with iptables: #!/...
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How do I play Pandora with Chrome?

I get this error: Please ensure you are using the latest Flash Player. If you are unable or do not wish to upgrade your Flash Player, please try a different browser. Please check our Help ...
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How do I keep audio from IE playing when switching apps on Windows 8?

I use Pandora.com to listen to music in IE on Windows 8. When I switch to another app, the audio cuts out. How can I keep it playing?
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AutoHotkey media button for the NextSong button on Pandora

I tried doing the same thing that had been advised to do on the Play/pause pandora.com with a media key answer page. I simply replaced the XXX with 119 after running GetMediaKey - instead of 122 (it ...
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Any way to stream pandora (using desktop app) via encrypted tunnel?

So, here's the deal... I have Pandora One account, and using desktop app (which is written in Adobe Flex) to listen to my stations. Now, all is great, except streaming protocols are getting blocked at ...
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Bind "media" keys on MacBook keyboard to application menu items

Currently, I am using PandoraBoy to listen to my Pandora stations. In the preferences, it allows you to set global hotkeys to control playing, like/dislike, volume, stations, etc. What I would like ...
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Sync Pandora on multiple devices

I am looking for a way to sync my Pandora stream across my PC, iPhone and Roku box? Has anyone done this before?
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Google Chrome Starts With Hidden Instances

Going to post this here - it turns out AskDifferent is ... pretty dead. So - weird things today. Because of another issue, I had to close google chrome and restart it. When it restarted, Pandora ...
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pianobarfly - stopped working

I was using pianobarfly and it no longer works, it appears the protocol was updated again. Does anyone have any information regarding this? The source hasn't changed since February, so I'm wondering ...
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Pandora is choppy when using a volume booster

Some of the computers I listen to Pandora on have rather wimpy sound, even with Pandora's volume slider turned up to max, and the earbuds I'm using don't have any built-in volume control, so I've ...
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Getting Pandora to load in Opera

I am using the current version of Opera (40). I have confirmed that the current version of Adobe Flash Player is installed (checked on opera://plugins - version 23). However, when I go to Pandora.com, ...
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Keep Pandora playing when screen times out?

I use IE in Windows 8 (doesn't matter if Desktop or Metro) to listen to Pandora and when the screen times out (I guess the laptop is going to sleep?) the music stops. I'd like to let the screen time ...
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How can I stream Pandora to my Xbox 360?

How can I get pandora to stream to my xbox 360? My initial thoughts would indicate that I would need a software-emulated sound card, and then I would need a program to attach to that soundcard and ...
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