Some time ago I searched for an old song I hadn't heard in years. After playing it, AutoPlay kicked in and I listened to those old songs for the entire weekend. To their credit, Pandora's algorithms did a splendid job at selecting music I liked and I must have given thumbs up to at least 20 songs. Later that next week I went to my thumbs up playlist and it didn't appear that any of my new thumbs were on top. . .
So where did they go?
I did a Google search with the question "what happens to pandora thumbs while in auto play". I was directed to the following web page... https://community.pandora.com/t5/My-Collection/How-Thumbs-up-work-with-autoplay/td-p/13136 where moderator-Adam makes the statement... "If you thumb up a track on your AutoPlay station, it will be added to your My Thumbs Up playlist. So if you want to view the Thumbs Up ratings you've provided while on AutoPlay, you can check out your My Thumbs Up playlist".
For the record, there is no station in my stations list named AutoPlay so I assume he's taking about the AutoPlay mode that occurs after completing a playlist.
I then decided to conduct an experiment.
• I noted that I currently had 1561 thumbs.
• I then searched and played the same song as before to initiate another AutoPlay session from the same seed.
• During this hour long session I gave thumbs up to 6 songs, encountered another 8 songs that already brandished my seal of approval, and allowed a handful of songs just play through.
• I noted that I now had 1564 thumbs.
• I also noted that there were 3 new songs on top of my thumbs-up playlist
Okay, so Pandora's platform did some of the math but what happened to the 3 other thumbs I gave?
For lack of an official term I'm calling these ORPHANED THUMBS. I'm fairly certain that they exist somewhere in Pandora's digital universe but to my eyes, they're simply not there.
-Bill
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