Thread: Android I need a Pandora app
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Old 05-19-2010, 01:55 PM   #6
kenjennings
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Originally Posted by cheyennedonna View Post
I emailed Pandora for support and this was the reply I got

"Thanks for sending that info. Since you are getting a message that states you are unable to retrieve music, it is likely that your device is not support playback of AAC+ audio which is what we we stream to the Android application."

It looks like no Pandora for now.
The Developer pages for Supported Media Formats says it is supported, but I think the page is discussing Android 2.1. However, I do find plenty of other devices running Android 1.6 that state AAC+ format is supported. The problem may be the contents of the file falls outside the expected bit rate/sampling rate for AAC+, or the file extension is wrong.

Format:
AAC LC/LTP
HE-AACv1 (AAC+)
HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+)

Details:
Mono/Stereo content in any combination of standard bit rates up to 160 kbps and sampling rates from 8 to 48kHz

Filetypes supported:
3GPP (.3gp) and MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4a). No support for raw AAC (.aac)


Another possibility is that Android supports the format in files, but doesn't support streaming it.

Last edited by kenjennings; 05-19-2010 at 02:07 PM.