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Based on your screenshot, this looks like the volume control integration for Windows 10 and not directly related to Pandora. I would suggest reaching out to them directly with this idea.
We do have a feature suggestion for a compact player design in our Feature Request board. If this is something you're interested in seeing for Pandora, feel free to give it a like. You can find the idea here.
It is directly related to Pandora. After investigating I determined that Pandora simply hasn't implemented the required browser hooks for media control keys. The OSD is supported in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge through APIs and works fine with the majority of well known media websites these days.
So, it's just Pandora that doesn't appear to work. In fact, it seems like even media control keys on the keyboard don't work for Pandora either...
I implemented a version of what I was talking about above using the MediaSession APIs I linked within a userscript for Pandora.
All it does at the moment is allow play/pause to be clicked. The song title is provided by a browser extension that changes the tab title. It should work in Chrome/Edge/Firefox.
Anyway, if I could spin that up in less than a day with no familiarity in it, I'm sure Pandora devs could natively support it and throw in the media info.
I went ahead and implemented the rest of the media-session support for Pandora so that it properly displays the album art, etc. It's on the repository I linked above and super simple stuff.
I'd appreciate if it could be passed to Pandora devs. I'd rather the support be natively in Pandora. 🙂 The code is MIT licensed and free with no restrictions or anything.
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