I appreciate your response and concern, however what you are offering seems to miss the point of what I shared. I wasn't asking for tech support. If you look again at my message, my only interest is that Pandora find a fix. Trying to do this sort of tech support is a rabbit hole I'm not able to go down at this point in my years of doing tech support.
In any case, I don't know what a "trace" is on my account, but please disable it. I clearly not asking for tech support, after years of being on both ends of it, my message one a 'one off', not a request to open up a process.
Reading over your email --which is strangely missing from this reply email-- you ask if I am able to open Pandora? This would indicate either an automated email or some generic response. There is however one thing that might be useful for Pandora to trouble-shoot its long-standing problem with Android: I only use Pandora in my car, through Android Auto. One recent change, apparently with an update to Android Auto (or maybe to Android 12) is that when I leave my car Pandora is not visible in the "app switcher", thus is not dismissible.
In the past I used "restricted background activity" in the Android settings for Pandora, which made no difference, so I reverted to the default setting. But yesterday I went back to that setting, and for now that seems to have fixed things, though I'll have to wait and see after another use or two of Pandora in my car, which I'll repeat, is the only time I use Pandora.
And while I'm not sure if this will make a difference for whatever follow-up Pandora will do internally, in my car Pandora is run on data, and at home, where it continues to invisibly run in the foreground, I'm on wifi. It would be interesting, for all the reports on this issue for years, to see if it is only an Android one.
