Ideas: Ability to block or mute artist/songs/genres

[bjoyce2]

New Feature Idea: Create Rules about what bands you never want to hear.  If I select a Genre but there are certain bands I never want to hear, there should be a way to create a rule. i.e. I select the 70's Rock Genre but I never want to hear any music from Sting, Rush, Styx, Journey, Kiss, etc.  then allow me to create a rule eliminating them fron the selection algorithm.

Moderator Edit: Edited title for clarity

[jklmnop]

Yo, Pandora,

Stop tinkering with the algorithms, add a block artist feature, and then continue working on the algorithms. 

Back in the Aughts when I first listened to Pandora, its general algorithm was really good. When I returned after seven years during covid, I noticed at about the 2-3 hour mark, the station would spiral out of control. There was no rhyme or reason how it veered off course into a completely different genre. It requires a lot of tweaking to get it to not mix in utter, dissimilar music. I once had started with an electronic station that I had created and tweaked that would'nt correct course from the opera and opera-like songs that had begun to playing some 25 minutes prior.

And that there is still no artist blocking is either incompetence personified or a company with strange priorities. I was once a paying customer, and was considering an annual subscription again, but this is a dealbreaker.

[caldella]

Yeah I'm once again pleading to add an option to block a particular artist. I listen to a lot of soft instrumental radio to concentrate, and lately I'm seeing multiple "artists" who I suspect are actually AI. I do not want to hear anything under those fake musician names. It's now at about 4-5 in the last couple of weeks, and it's irritating. Thumbing down tracks is damaging to the station, because the works are intentionally styled after music I actually want to hear. Thumbs-down would potentially steer my radio stations away from what I want.