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. 

[GEA02]

I agree! Ability to block a particular artist, song or station would be very helpful. 

At my workplace (a hair salon), my co-workers and I use a shared Pandora account for salon music. Explicit content is blocked and we use the thumbs up/down feature to curate but it's not as effective as fully blocking.

I imagine a block option could potentially be a useful tool for parents, as well.

[jl3bennett]

This post is going on 7 years old and is still a feature being strongly asked for. Come on Pandora, time to get it in gear and get this feature implemented.

[bjoyce2]

Not only do I not want to hear from certain bands, I don't want to hear any artist covering that music. No Sting, no Police, no covers. None of it.

[NYCChamps]

There needs to be a block artist feature. That's it that's the post. 

[GreenMMC]

I know we can remove individual songs but we should be able to blackball an artist too.  I can't stand Bruce Springsteen and I shouldn't have to down thumb every time one of his nauseating songs comes on!

[Groach]

I NEED a block artist feature, the artist Jim Funk pumps out ai slop music at high rates and it is plaguing my electronic music stations. It's all ai slop from him now 

[barnesmjsa]

AI Overview

Pandora does not offer a direct feature to completely block or mute an artist. Instead, you have to use workarounds like giving the artist a thumbs-down, removing positive votes, or checking station seeds. 

Managing Unwanted Music on Pandora

• Give a Thumbs-Down: Tap the thumbs-down icon on any song by the artist you dislike to reduce how often they play on that station. 

• Check Station Seeds: Go to your station settings and make sure the artist or their specific songs are not added as a "station seed" or added variety. 

• Clear Positive History: Look at your thumb history to ensure you haven't accidentally given a thumbs-up to any of their tracks in the past, which overrides negative feedback. 

[wyrsek]

Can someone at Pandora just explain in simple terms how/why this feature can't be implemented?

Pandora appears to be able to go, "hey, you said not to play that song - so I won't" and we're saying, "now do that exact same thing but apply it to the artist"

And somehow - many years later - here we are with Pandora going, "wow, I mean... maybe some day..."

And maybe it would make sense if I could go, "well sure, but they're so busy implementing all these other great features!" but if that's the case then where are THOSE features?