When Loading OpenPandora, it says It is taking longer then expected to play

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. open OpenPandora
2. 1
3. 1

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
plays slong

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Windows 7 IE 8

Please provide any additional information below.
Just hoping it works.... the very first time i tried the program it worked
for maybe 15 songs and now thats all that will come up

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kho...@gmail.com on 16 Jan 2009 at 4:22

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I am also experiencing this problem.  Playing Pandora through the browser (both 
IE8
and FF 3.0.5) works just fine.  OpenPandora is able to connect the service and 
login
(my stations appear), but cannot fetch a song.

Troubleshooting steps:

1. Uninstall/reinstall; no success.
2. Run as Vista, XP SP3, and other modes; no success.
3. Run as Administrator; no success.
4. Turn off Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, and other systems in the Action 
Center.

Looking at the HTTP traffic through Fiddler, it keeps trying to access various 
hosts
on pandora.com with binary download sizes of 1-3MB (assuming songs).  I don't 
see any
blocked traffic though; just the song data not reaching OpenPandora.

Original comment by tiredstu...@gmail.com on 16 Jan 2009 at 11:44

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Looking at the source code, I think I've figured out the issue.

Windows 7 does not appear to include MSHTML.dll.  Thankfully, the author has 
included
a file called Microsoft.mshtml.dll within the source code; however, the actual
solution is trying to point to the mshtml.dll within the system's GAC.

To get this to work, here's what I did:

1. Open the solution from the SVN.
2. Remove the invalid references to MSHTML on my local computer.
3. Add references to the copy of MSHTML (microsoft.mshtml.dll) from the 
downloaded
source.
4. Change the compile architecture from 'Any CPU' to 'x86' (I'm on a x64 
client, that
just saves pain).
5. Compile and run.
6. Everything works like a champ. Woot.

No actual code changes needed, just referencing the included library rather 
than the
local computer should fix this on all platforms.

Original comment by tiredstu...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2009 at 12:07

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Okay, as kholez mentioned, it does seem to timeout at random. Watching the 
debug log
now as it plays...

Original comment by tiredstu...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2009 at 5:15

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nice, good work... maybe you can send me what you have? no easy way for me to 
edit
yet on my w7....

Original comment by kho...@gmail.com on 17 Jan 2009 at 5:08