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by mickdarling 5621 days ago
I use it as well, and have been meaning to dig into the code to setup automatic login and playing. I think the stream that it accesses is completely advertising-free too. But I would gladly listen to the pandora ads on it since it runs with SO MUCH LESS memory and CPU than any other player.
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Make a config file: ~/.config/pianobar/config that looks like this: user = me@example.com password = mypassword
I think the stream that it accesses is completely advertising-free too.

I don't think it has to do with the stream. When an ad comes up it just fetches a new playlist.