Today Pandora announced the release of a new desktop client for all Pandora One users to download. If you don’t know, Pandora One is the paid version of the popular Pandora online radio service that compiles playlists based on the style of a selected song, artist, or genre.

Along with your ad-free, desktop music listening experience, the Pandora One client update adds some features that were definitely missing from the older version. Among those features is listening history, which allows you to see what you’ve been listening to for the past hour. You also get a progress bar for the currently playing track, faster song transitions for your downvotes and skips, and track info on system tray hover for you Windows types.

One of the features I like the most is persistent placement/volume settings. No more fiddling around with settings when you open the app. It remembers where you placed it on your desktop and the last volume setting. Set and forget is a lovely thing, especially if its something you fire up at the office first thing in the morning.

You can read the full announcement over at the Pandora blog.