Pandora Radio Desktop Application

Dear Pandora,

Maybe I'm alone in feeling this way, but I still prefer having Pandora open on the web instead of via desktop application. The application brings an extra double-click in addition to the browser unless you set it to start with Windows... which people HATE. I think the browser is the first thing most people click on when they start up their computers, anyway, which brings me to my suggestion...

An effective alternative to having an external application, I feel, would be a browser toolbar. So it's "always on top", opens with the browser, and doesn't require its own tab (which I don't mind the tab anyway). Then song ratings are only one click away (versus 2 with a tab or app: once to bring Pandora into focus, and once to rate a song).

OR...

Make the application operate like a stock ticker. Make it 20px high and 400px across. Have the "always on top" option turned on by default. Let it dock against the top or bottom of the screen. Now you've got a non-obtrusive, always on top, click-minimizing application that can operate without the browser, which is pretty much your main marketing point for the current one as it sounds to me.

The sacrifice of my suggestions is the album art. That's easily solved by an icon on the ticker/toolbar that displays the album art onRollover (or mouseOver, depending on your programming language of choice :))

That's all from me for now, thanks for listening!