Pandora wont play, but youtube does.

What browser are you using? What flash plugin are you using? If you're not sure what plugin it is and you're using Firefox, try typing "about:plugins" in your navigation bar and look in there.

this is a list of all the plugins that i am using in firefox

Shockwave Flash

    File name: libswfdecmozilla.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r100

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash movie spl Yes
iTunes Application Detector

    File name: librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
    This plug-in detects the presence of iTunes when opening iTunes Store URLs in a web page with Firefox.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/itunes-plugin Yes
Default Plugin

    File name: libnullplugin.so
    The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
* All types .* No
Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux

    File name: libunixprintplugin.so
    The demo print plugin for unix.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-print-unix-nsplugin Demo Print Plugin for Unix/Linux .pnt Yes
Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.22.1

    File name: libtotem-basic-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-ogg - ogg Yes
application/ogg Ogg multimedia ogg Yes
audio/ogg Ogg Audio oga Yes
audio/x-ogg Ogg Audio ogg Yes
video/ogg Ogg Video ogv Yes
video/x-ogg Ogg Video ogg Yes
application/annodex - anx Yes
audio/annodex - axa Yes
video/annodex - axv Yes
video/mpeg MPEG video mpg, mpeg, mpe Yes
audio/wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/x-wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/mpeg MP3 audio mp3 Yes
application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3 NullSoft video nsv Yes
video/flv Flash video flv Yes
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible (compatible; Totem)

    File name: libtotem-complex-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealAudio document rpm Yes
VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.22.1)

    File name: libtotem-cone-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-vlc-plugin unknown Yes
application/vlc unknown Yes
video/x-google-vlc-plugin unknown Yes
Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)

    File name: libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-mplayer2 AVI video avi, wma, wmv Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin ASF video asf, wmv Yes
video/x-msvideo AVI video asf, wmv Yes
video/x-ms-asf ASF video asf Yes
video/x-ms-wmv Windows Media video wmv Yes
video/x-wmv Windows Media video wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wvx Microsoft ASX playlist wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wm ASF video wmv Yes
application/x-ms-wms Windows Media video wms Yes
application/asx Microsoft ASX playlist asx Yes
audio/x-ms-wma Windows Media audio wma Yes
DivX® Web Player

    File name: libtotem-mully-plugin.so
    DivX Web Player version 1.4.0.233

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/divx AVI video divx Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 7.2.0

    File name: libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
    The Totem 2.22.1 plugin handles video and audio streams.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/quicktime QuickTime video mov Yes
video/mp4 MPEG-4 video mp4 Yes
image/x-macpaint MacPaint Bitmap image pntg Yes
image/x-quicktime QuickTime image pict, pict1, pict2 Yes
video/x-m4v MPEG-4 video m4v Yes
GCJ Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea) 1.0

    File name: gcjwebplugin.so
    The GCJ Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea) executes Java applets.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-vm IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.5 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.6 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6.0_00 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.5 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.6 IcedTea class,jar Yes
application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.6.0_00 IcedTea class,jar Yes
Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

Shockwave Flash
iTunes Application Detector
Default Plugin
Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux
Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.22.1
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible (compatible; Totem
VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.22.1
Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)
DivX® Web Player
QuickTime Plug-in 7.2.0
GCJ Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea) 1.0
Shockwave Flash

I don't think that your flash plugin supports Pandora. I could be wrong though.

Try this:
Go to "Applications" >> "Accessories" >> "Terminal".
Type "sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree"
Type in password, hit "y" and enter if it asks you any questions.
When it's done try restarting Firefox and going to Pandora and testing.

derek@derek-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
derek@derek-laptop:~$

I ran that and it said that it is the newest version. I heard that pandora may not support the newest version, do you know how i can install an older one??

basically it gets to the pandora page, and same with playlist.com and hit just hangs there. It says done at the bottom of the page and says please wait while pandora loads, and i could wait for 4 hours and nothing happens.

basically it gets to the pandora page, and same with playlist.com and hit just hangs there. It says done at the bottom of the page and says please wait while pandora loads, and i could wait for 4 hours and nothing happens.

WOW<!!! thanks so much. you are a genius. I am so happy now. I quit using windows, because it was running pretty slow and annoying the crap out of me. I was a little sad that pandora was not working in ubuntu. i have a dual boot with windows just in case i need to do something with xp, but thanks a ton. this is great you are amazing. !!!!it all works now. playlist.com and pandora. nice!

thanks a ton

Thanks Thomas Roten, that solved my question.

In this novice's humble opinion Thomas Roten's solution should be written in stone and bundled with Ubuntu. Thank you, sir.

I believe this situation crops up because when the flash plugin is first installed you're given the option of two other plugins (Gnash and something else). One assumes an open source one is better (and I believe a prompt even comes up discouraging the official plugin) so it doesn't get installed. However seeing as only the official one works, with all due respect to the open source developers, shouldn't they be booted off Synaptic until they, well, work?

If I sound like I have no idea what I'm talking about it's because I don't.

Haha, thank you.

The thing is that Ubuntu tries and will always continue to try to support open source projects rather than proprietary ones. The open source ones have come a long way in the past few years, and while they can't handle things such as pandora or many games, the swfdec plugin can handle YouTube, which is pretty significant. Ubuntu, as an open-source project that is going to stay that way, cannot recommend a proprietary piece of software. That's why there is the restricted drivers manager and that's why the other plugins pop up in that list.

Many people think that the open source plugin is still better despite the proprietary one working on the most flash movies/games.

Hi Thomas.
I had the same problem and followed your instructions above. Removing swf had no error messages but after the second command I got the following message in terminal mode:

Download done.
sha256sum mismatch install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

Any recommendations?