Rock and non-jazz songs are increasingly appearing on Jazz and Miles Davis stations. I don’t dislike these songs — they simply don’t belong in this context.
The problem is that Pandora only offers Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down. Using Thumbs Down incorrectly signals that I dislike the song itself, potentially affecting recommendations across my entire account.
🎛️ Current state (broken)
• 👍 Thumbs Up = “More like this everywhere”
• 👎 Thumbs Down = “Less of this (maybe everywhere)”
• ❌ No way to say: “Fine song, wrong room”
✅ Proposed solution: Contextual Feedback Control
Add a third icon next to 👍 👎:
🧭 “Wrong station”
(tooltip: “This song doesn’t fit this station”)
Behavior rules (important):
• Removes the song only from this station
• Does not affect:
• Artist affinity
• Other stations
• Global taste profile
• Trains station boundaries instead of taste
Optional refinement (power-user gold)
Long-press 🧭 → submenu:
• Wrong genre
• Wrong era
• Too far outside core artist
• Experimental / fusion bleed-over
Even one generic “Wrong station” option would solve 80% of the problem.
