Popular Internet radio service Pandora has unleashed a complete redesign of its web-based player and removed the 40-hour listening cap.

The new Pandora, which we first learned about in July, dramatically speeds up the interface. The new player is built in HTML5, vastly improving the navigation speed over its previous iteration, which was built in Flash.

“We’ve rebuilt Pandora from the foundation up – starting with a completely new software platform based on HTML5,” Pandora CTO Tom Conrad said in a statement. “This redesign represents years of learning and a deliberate and comprehensive review of every last detail of the experience.”

The first thing most people will notice about the redesign is the bigger, more prominent music player. It now sits on the top of the page, no matter where you go on Pandora. It’s much faster and easier to find. Best of all, it comes with a new shuffle feature that lets you shuffle songs from all of your Pandora stations. It’s an interesting experience going from Mozart to Kanye West, but it adds variety to the listening experience.

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Pandora has also added enhancements for finding and discovering artists. The new autocomplete search function is not only cleaner, but it’s more accurate at choosing stations, artists and songs that might pique your interest. The update also comes with more detailed information about artists and adds options for finding music lyrics. The album art size has also been expanded to make for a more visual experience.

One change we like is that the player is now more social. Each station now has its own URL, which can be shared via Facebook, Twitter and Pandora’s new social feed, which provides a stream of likes and comments on different pieces of music. This also makes it easy to email a Beatles Pandora station to your mom.

All of these changes come with one more big change: the removal of the listening cap. Non-paying users were limited to 40 hours of music before Pandora stopped playing and prompted you to purchase Pandora One, its premium subscription offering. Now Pandora will keep playing, although if you hit 320 hours the company will contact you about whether you’re abusing the system.

The redesign was long overdue. I have avoided using Pandora’s website for years because its interface was so terrible (I’m a Pandora One user and preferred the company’s desktop app). The redesigned player is much easier to use though and much more appealing, which will hopefully result in more people adopting the web player. Its new social features should spur new levels of engagement as well.

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