Android: Error When Adding Variety or Starting New Station

[Lexi_Paradise]

Im trying to add Tom cardy or his songs to a personal playlist and keep getting a "technical difficulties" error. His artist icon and songs show up when searched and i am able to play songs with ads from him just fine but cant add to a station at all. 

mod edit: changed title for clarity

[Crazyisgood]

We're experiencing techincal difficulties

Whenever I try to add the song overtaken from one piece I get this message.

Rifi beats.& Trap music

Pianoprinceofanime

And many other artists

[AdamPandora]

@Crazyisgood To clarify, is this the entire name of the artist?: Rifi beats.& Trap music Pianoprinceofanime

If not, can you please confirm what the names of the artists are that you are unable to add?

Thanks again!

[Kamashida]

I'm experiencing this same issue with the League of Legends virtual band K/DA.

[jayroth530]

Yeah I was having those issues with all the bands like that. So what I did was left Pandora and went to Spotify and I no longer have those issues. Pandora was no help and didn't address any of my problems

[AlyssaPandora]

Hi there, @jayroth530 @Kamashida. 👋

Thanks for reporting, and for sharing your feedback around this.

I've gone ahead and reported the K/DA band. 

Please keep in mind, this information is reported directly to our curation team by the community moderators. While the moderators aren't given a timeline or ETA by the team, you can rest assured all information is reported to the appropriate party on your behalf.

We appreciate your patience during this process. 🎧

[odbo255]

Add the artist Jonah Senzel to the list to be looked at.

I've been noticing more and more artists and songs causing this error. I'm guessing about 25% of the seeds I try to add and/or create a station from error out now. I only began to see this error very occasionally starting a year or two ago. Now I see it multiple times when I curate my collection.

Is this happening because fewer artists/songs are being licensed by Pandora? If so, please replace the message. It would be expected behavior due to licensing restrictions. I find it very frustrating to not have any idea if the message signifies an error or not. If it is an error, why has it been growing in frequency and become so systemic?

FWIW I've been a continuous subscriber since 2005 and have well over a hundred highly curated stations (I remember having to condense stations back when the limits of the max number of stations was much smaller!).

These errors and their apparent growing frequency is the first time I've been disappointed with the service.

[AdamPandora]

@odbo255 I definitely understand your frustration.

I have passed your feedback along to our curation team so they can help look into that specific artist.

If you see that message appearing for any other artists/bands, feel free to let us know and we'll be happy to further assist.

Thanks for being a part of the Community!

[DustDevil]

I have tried several times to add Cole Chaney to my "New Country" station. If I search his name, I am able to play his music, but I cannot add him to my station via the Add Variety button... Screenshots included.

 

 

[AdamPandora]

@DustDevil I've passed your feedback along to our curation team so they can further investigate.

Thanks for reporting!

[Domenique]

How do I fix Pandora saying unexpected technical difficulties when adding a new station? I am trying to add the artist Nicki Gee.

[AdamPandora]

@Domenique I've passed your feedback along to our curation team for further review.

Thanks for reporting!

[madaraismine]

I'm having the issue adding the artist Halcali

[AlyssaPandora]

Thanks for reporting, @madaraismine. We've shared this feedback with the appropriate party on your behalf. 🎧

[madaraismine]

other artists I'm not able to add to my station variety is TiA

This artist https://www.pandora.com/artist/tia/ARwpjK3bb3wkgfc

And Chaba

https://www.pandora.com/artist/chaba/ARKdg7p227grjKg

[AlyssaPandora]

Thanks for passing those two artists along. I've shared this with our curation team for you, @madaraismine. 👍

[Licarobe44]

It keeps saying it's experiencing technal difficulty. Why?

I don't know what happened. Every time I try to add certain stations it keeps giving me this message. I tried to uninstall Pandora for a couple of hours and I reinstalled it. And it's still saying the same thing. Help

[AdamPandora]

@Licarobe44 I moved your post over to this existing thread: Android: Error When Adding Variety or Starting New Station

What is the name of the station you are trying to add when the error message appears?

Let me know.

[Hellblood]

So I have a station that already has variety however when I try to add "Reol" I'm getting the technical difficulty nessage

[AlyssaPandora]

Hi, @Hellblood. 👋

Thanks for reporting this profile: Reol

I've gone ahead and shared this with our curation team on your behalf. We appreciate your patience during this process. 🎧

[Polgara]

I still get this message anytime I try to add any of the following artists or their songs to any of my stations.

Shadow Cliq

Hvdes

Taylor goyette

These are not all of them just those I have tried In the last couple days.