how do i get the expanded notification wiht pause and thumbs up/down controls on the notification bar like that picture?

Using 2 fingers, within the notification, pull apart (opposite of pinch) in order to expand the rich notification features. If that doesn't work, your device may have an older operating system and does not support these type of notifications.

[(GL)gamer765]

Expanded notification requires android 4.1 and higher.

i'm on kit kat i know how expanded notifications work. it's weird

[NateBroChill]

i'm on kit kat i know how expanded notifications work. it's weird

Do you have the 'Rich Notification' option within Pandora Patcher enabled? If so, try unchecking the option and then re-checking it again.

i'm on kit kat i know how expanded notifications work. it's weird

Do you have the 'Rich Notification' option within Pandora Patcher enabled? If so, try unchecking the option and then re-checking it again.

thanks so much it's working.

[(GL)gamer765]

I seem to have a working download progress notification. Doing additional testing before I push an update.
Edit: I'm actually going to hold off on the update since it is minor and I want to port the Pandora One stuff for the Amazon Fire TV Pandora (I finally got an Amazon Fire TV).

Wow, I can't believe how far behind I was here. I didn't realize you weren't updating through the xposed system anymore. So to get the incremental updates, I have to come here and download the .apk and transfer it to the phone each time?

I can't thank you enough for the notification bar controls. Why in the world hasn't Pandora done that yet? Most competing apps have had that for a while now.

I'll have to see how this downloading stuff and higher quality .mp3 stuff works. I tried the transparent lock screen, but I didn't readily notice a difference.

Any time we change any pandora patcher options, we have to reboot for them to take effect, right?

[(GL)gamer765]

To get updates, you'll have to come here to download the newest version. I didn't really add notification controls, I just enabled them, Pandora just had them hidden away. Now, to apply changes you no longer have to reboot (except for the transparent widget mod). All patches/tweaks are applied on the fly. You may need to quit Pandora and start it again to see them.

Great. Why would they have the notification controls in there, but disabled?

Having a little problem with the downloading.

GS3 on Kitkat.

With the save location set to /storage/emulated/0/Music/Pandora, it works fine.
With the save location set to /storage/extsdcard/Music/Pandora, it doesn't work. It comes back almost immediately saying it completed, but the file isn't there.

If I delete the folders on the extsdcard and have pandora patcher create the pandora folder, it says it failed.

It's like pandora patcher doesn't have write rights to the extsdcard.

Any ideas?

[(GL)gamer765]

Check Xposed logs. Also, so far pretty much everyone has reported that downloading to external sd works now.

Check Xposed logs. Also, so far pretty much everyone has reported that downloading to external sd works now.

Xposed log
Download error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /storage/extsdcard/music/pandora/song title open failed: EACCESS (Permission denied)

I'll be more than happy to try anything you'd like me to try, but sure doesn't look to be something I'm doing wrong.

[(GL)gamer765]

Well it does look like a permissions issue. I'll look into it

Do you have writing to external sd card enabled? The kitkat update restricted it so if its stock you might want to look into an enable write to sd card mod.

Edit: i could also be completely wrong since i dont have an s3...

[(GL)gamer765]

It looks like there really isn't much I can do since Google has the external SD card locked tight in kitkat. You can try using this app to try to "fix" the issue. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
It's quite interesting to see that the Amazon Fire TV edition of Pandora uses some undocumented partner login credentials. I wonder what kind of content it provides...
Update: It appears that tuner.pandora.com DOES provide 192kbps MP3s, as long as it is logged in as a Google TV or Amazon Fire TV partner. Looks like maybe I can get Pandora One 192kbps MP3 and region bypass at the same time with this kind of login!
Update 2: It can also be that Amazon Pandora sends an extra parameter when retrieving playlists.
Update 3: I now get 192kbps MP3 on tuner.pandora.com using the undocumented credentials for tuner.pandora.com, as well as an undocumented API parameter for retrieving playlists. I believe this extra parameter has the power of serving 192kbps MP3 if the account supports it and falling back to 128kbps MP3 is not Pandora One. Going to test with free account.

It looks like there really isn't much I can do since Google has the external SD card locked tight in kitkat. You can try using this app to try to "fix" the issue. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
It's quite interesting to see that the Amazon Fire TV edition of Pandora uses some undocumented partner login credentials. I wonder what kind of content it provides...
Update: It appears that tuner.pandora.com DOES provide 192kbps MP3s, as long as it is logged in as a Google TV or Amazon Fire TV partner. Looks like maybe I can get Pandora One 192kbps MP3 and region bypass at the same time with this kind of login!
Update 2: It can also be that Amazon Pandora sends an extra parameter when retrieving playlists.
Update 3: I now get 192kbps MP3 on tuner.pandora.com using the undocumented credentials for tuner.pandora.com, as well as an undocumented API parameter for retrieving playlists. I believe this extra parameter has the power of serving 192kbps MP3 if the account supports it and falling back to 128kbps MP3 is not Pandora One. Going to test with free account.

Excited to see how the test goes!