I've been a long time Pandora Plus subscriber and just recently upgraded to Premium. The on-demand listening is a whole new world for me, and I'm overwhelmed by how to build my account. My typical listening experience is to start one of my Stations, and while listening a particular song might prompt me to (1) go listen to the entire album that song is on or otherwise explore that artist's catalog, or (2) want to 'save' that song in some fashion. It's option #2 that's got me wondering how other folks do it. My Stations are typically geared towards a mood, like "chill music". So, if I hear a chill song I really like, I'm tempted to add it to my Collection, and add it to a "Chill" Playlist. But is it useful to anyone to have individual songs in your Collection? I'm a CD-era listens-to-the-whole-album kind of guy. I'm at a loss for when I would choose to listen to a Playlist (e.g. a "Chill" Playlist vs. my "Chill" Station), or to use my Collection to listen to an individual song, vs an entire album that I like. I'm conflicted on whether I should add absolutely everything that I remotely like to my Collection, or if my Collection should be a scant assortment of only my absolute favorite things that I would specifically listen to often, and then maybe only whole albums? How do you all 'save' that one-off random song you really like - where do you 'put' it, if you're not particularly interested in that artist or album as a whole? What about something you want to save for later - like a new album you want to listen to, but don't know yet if you'll like it? I love that Pandora offers all these features to build your account in a way that suits you, but I'm kind of at a loss as to how best to utilize them. TIA!
