Is it just me, or is it all pixelated in here?*

Despite all the jumping up and down about the second coming of Spotify, I’m still a big fan of my various Pandora streams - and yes, I’m a paying subscriber.

However, the Pandora desktop client suffers from the same pixelation disease that’s seen in a broad range of apps based on Adobe Air and/or Adobe Flash: when apps resize an image, the engine doesn’t do any interpolation of the pixels - it just shrinks the image and hacks out the extra pixels, leaving behind a bundle of jagged edges. I mean, just look at where it says “Global” and “Paul van Dyk”. Do the same resize in Photoshop, Acorn, or any of a thousand photo apps, and it would be a hundred times cleaner. Worse yet, text rendering is painful - like how close the “ce” are at the end of “Trance” in the upper right.

As a result, my Pandora launch sequence is pretty much set in stone: click the icon, and immediately hit Command-H to hide.

Hey Pandora, any chances of writing a script to go through all of your cover art images and resize them to 238x231 (and, for bonus points, 200x200 for the zoomed out view), and start pushing those along with the streams, instead of the defaults?

* Actual, unretouched image