You can then use your Mac keyboard to do things like play, pause, replay, skip, shuffle or thumbs up or down the songs. Meanwhile, to use the keyboard controls feature, you need to enable Accessibility permissions in the Mac’s settings.

From the Now Playing screen, you just click on one of the various options to tune your station, as you currently do on mobile.

On the desktop app, switching modes is easy. The idea is to give users more control over how Pandora’s customization algorithms work, without requiring users build out their own playlists to get the same experience. Introduced just a couple of months ago, Pandora Modes switches up the classic listening experience by letting you tweak your stations to favor deep cuts, or crowd favorites, new releases, specific artists and more. The app supports keyboard controls, on-screen notifications for the music currently playing and a way to control Pandora’s new “Modes” feature for customizing the music you hear on your Pandora stations. This morning, the company announced the launch of a native desktop app for Mac, with a Windows version to soon follow.

Pandora is rolling out new desktop apps for its streaming music listeners, starting with Mac.

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