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Avenged Sevenfold Radio hasn't been the same

blues-sevenfold
Diamond in the Rough

Even though Avenged Sevenfold is a hard rock band, I like to mix rock and blues on the same station - and, up until a little over a month ago, my Avenged Sevenfold Radio has been doing a good job of mixing the genres. However, the station has recently been choking out the blues variety and it keeps throwing songs at me that I never thumbed up in excess. I haven't been listening to any special mode, just 'my station'.

Is this change intentional? If so, I'm really gonna miss the station that I spent about six and a half years cultivating.

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AdamPandora
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@blues-sevenfold We use all of the feedback you've given on the station (all the Thumbs and any additional seeds) to determine what to play next. If you want to hear more songs by a particular artist, review the Thumbs and seeds you have added. To improve your stations, make sure each of the Thumbs Up or seeds you've added fit with the type of station you want and remove those that don't.

To edit your station on the web, go to My Collection, sort your collection by Stations, and then select the name of the station you'd like to edit.

Then:

  1. To delete a thumbed track, scroll down to the Thumb History section of this page. By default, this section will show your Thumbed Up tracks first. If you'd like to see your Thumbs Down, click on the Thumbs Down icon. Next, either select the ellipsis next to the Thumb or hover your cursor over the name of the track to reveal a hidden menu. As before, select Delete.

Now you should hear more of that particular artist in the station, though we do limit the number of songs by a particular artist played each hour due to licensing agreements.

As for the Thumbs or seeds you removed, keep in mind that you can always create new stations based on those songs or artists.

Hope this helps. Thanks so much for listening!

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AdamPandora
Community Manager
Community Manager

@blues-sevenfold We use all of the feedback you've given on the station (all the Thumbs and any additional seeds) to determine what to play next. If you want to hear more songs by a particular artist, review the Thumbs and seeds you have added. To improve your stations, make sure each of the Thumbs Up or seeds you've added fit with the type of station you want and remove those that don't.

To edit your station on the web, go to My Collection, sort your collection by Stations, and then select the name of the station you'd like to edit.

Then:

  1. To delete a thumbed track, scroll down to the Thumb History section of this page. By default, this section will show your Thumbed Up tracks first. If you'd like to see your Thumbs Down, click on the Thumbs Down icon. Next, either select the ellipsis next to the Thumb or hover your cursor over the name of the track to reveal a hidden menu. As before, select Delete.

Now you should hear more of that particular artist in the station, though we do limit the number of songs by a particular artist played each hour due to licensing agreements.

As for the Thumbs or seeds you removed, keep in mind that you can always create new stations based on those songs or artists.

Hope this helps. Thanks so much for listening!

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blues-sevenfold
Diamond in the Rough

Station: Avenged Sevenfold Radio

Station Mode: My Station

Note: Songs with a strike-through are songs that were previously unthumbed and currently thumbed down.

Playback List:

  1. Five Finger Death Punch - Crossover
  2. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
  3. Three Days Grace - Riot
  4. Mark Hummel - Stop Now Baby
  5. Snooky Pryor - Bottle It Up And Go
  6. Five Finger Death Punch - The Bleeding
  7. Studebaker John & The Hawks - Nothing But Fun [unthumbed]
  8. Avenged Sevenfold - Carry On
  9. Drowning Pool - All Over Me
  10. Five Finger Death Punch - M.I.N.E. (End This Way)
  11. Godsmack - Let It Out
  12. Charlie Musselwhite - Hello Pretty Baby
  13. Studebaker John & The Hawks - Let's Boogie Tonight
  14. Five Finger Death Punch - Lift Me Up
  15. Little Walter - My Kind Of Baby
  16. Avenged Sevenfold - Requiem
  17. Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become
  18. Shinedown - Adrenaline
  19. Godsmack - Good Day To Die
  20. Studebaker John & The Hawks - She Knows She Got A Good Thing
  21. Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
  22. Three Days Grace - Gone Forever
  23. Disturbed - I'm Alive
  24. Shinedown - Nowhere Kids
  25. Mudvayne - Fall Into Sleep
  26. All That Remains - The Air That I Breathe
  27. Volbeat - Shotgun Blues
  28. Disturbed - The Vengeful One
  29. Drowning Pool - Sinner
  30. Shinedown - Enemies
  31. Mark Hummel - Too Late Brother
  32. Volbeat - The Devil's Bleeding Crown
  33. Godsmack - The Enemy
  34. Metallica - Devil's Dance
  35. Three Days Grace - Villain I'm Not
  36. Shinedown - Call Me (Acoustic; Live from Kansas City)
  37. Slipknot - XIX
  38. Metallica - Broken, Beat & Scarred
  39. Little Walter - I Got To Go
  40. Breaking Benjamin - Bury Me Alive
  41. Slipknot - People = ****
  42. Disturbed - Breathe
  43. Metallica - Until It Sleeps
  44. Howlin' Wolf - Everybody's In The Mood
  45. Breaking Benjamin - Feed The Wolf
  46. Disturbed - Saviour Of Nothing
  47. Metallica -Now That We're Dead
  48. Slipknot - Skeptic
  49. Breaking Benjamin - Dark
  50. Howlin' Wolf - Break Of Day
  51. William Clarke - I Know You're Fine
  52. Studebaker John & The Hawks - Tell Me Why
  53. Slipknot - Child Of Burning Time
  54. Breaking Benjamin - Save Yourself
  55. Mark Hummel - Bad Luck Blues
  56. Little Walter - It's Too Late Brother
  57. Godsmack - Something Different
  58. Howlin' Wolf - My Baby Told Me
  59. Mark Hummel - Georgia Slop
  60. Evanescence - The Other Side
  61. Charlie Musselwhite - Mean Ole Frisco
  62. Volbeat - Mary Jane Kelly
  63. Carey Bell - After You
  64. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - I Could Deal With It
  65. Mudvayne - Happy (Demo)
  66. Elmore James - I Done Somebody Wrong [unthumbed]
  67. Thousand Foot Krutch - Welcome To The Masquerade
  68. James Cotton - Buried Alive In The Blues
  69. Snooky Pryor - Can I Be Your Friend
  70. All That Remains - For You
  71. Hollywood Undead - Lights Out
  72. Chevelle - Forfeit
  73. Volbeat - Black Bart
  74. The 44s - So Low Down
  75. All That Remains - Six
  76. Atreyu - Do You Know Who You Are?
  77. Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' For My Darlin'
  78. Evanescence - The Chain (From "Gears 5")
  79. Mudvayne - Never Enough
  80. Staind - Yesterday
  81. Drowning Pool - Step Up
  82. Hollywood Undead - Bullet
  83. Chevelle - An Island
  84. Evanescence - Better Without You
  85. Little Walter - Shake Dancer
  86. Downchild Blues Band - I Am Mister Downchild
  87. All That Remains - Stand Up
  88. Mudvayne - Under My Skin
  89. Atreyu - No Control
  90. Linkin Park - A Line In The Sand
  91. Hollywood Undead - Levitate
  92. Chevelle - This Circus
  93. Evanescence - Lithium
  94. Atreyu - Wait For You
  95. Linkin Park - And One (Hybrid Theory EP)
  96. Hollywood Undead - Dead Bite
  97. Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
  98. Rod Piazza - Juicy Harmonica
  99. Atreyu - Shameful
  100. Staind - Pardon Me
  101. Snooky Pryor - Slow Down Baby
  102. Linkin Park - Halfway Right
  103. Jimmy Reed - Honey Where You Going
  104. Ozzy Osbourne - Under The Graveyard
  105. Five Finger Death Punch - Digging My Own Grave
  106. Avenged Sevenfold - Coming Home
  107. Mark Hummel - Last Time In Florida
  108. Three Days Grace - Take Me Under
  109. Five Finger Death Punch - Jekyll And Hyde
  110. Avenged Sevenfold - Lost It All
  111. Snooky Pryor - Bottle It Up And Go [repeat]
  112. Linkin Park - Wretches And Kings
  113. Studebaker John & The Hawks - Since Day One [unthumbed]
  114. The Cash Box Kings - If You Got A Jealous Woman Facebook Ain’t Your Friend
  115. Muse - Uprising
  116. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Hurry Up And Wait
  117. Five Finger Death Punch - Living The Dream
  118. Drowning Pool - All Over Me [repeat]
  119. Charlie Musselwhite - Hello Pretty Baby [repeat]
  120. Godsmack - Let It Out [repeat]
  121. Avenged Sevenfold - Almost Easy
  122. Five Finger Death Punch - Bad Seed
  123. Studebaker John & The Hawks - Let's Boogie Tonight [repeat]
  124. Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
  125. Avenged Sevenfold - Beast And The Harlot
  126. Shinedown - Evolve
  127. Three Days Grace - Home
  128. Disturbed - Run
  129. Godsmack - Good Day To Die
  130. Volbeat - Shotgun Blues [repeat]
  131. Shinedown - Unity
  132. Mudvayne - Fall Into Sleep [repeat]
  133. Three Days Grace - Riot [repeat]
  134. Disturbed - Mistress
  135. All That Remains - The Air That I Breathe [repeat]
  136. Studebaker John & The Hawks - She Knows She Got A Good Thing [repeat]
  137. Little Walter - Mellow Down Easy
  138. Mark Hummel - Blues Is Here To Stay
  139. Shinedown - In Memory
  140. Three Days Grace - Burn
  141. Howlin' Wolf - Crazy About You Baby
  142. Charlie Musselwhite - Make My Getaway
  143. Slipknot - Circle
  144. Breaking Benjamin - You Fight Me
  145. Volbeat - The Devil's Bleeding Crown [repeat]

I really should not be getting so many unthumbed tracks thrown at me on 'my station' mode when I have 678 thumbed up tracks, especially when it hasn't been like this up until a little over a month ago.

I am aware of licensing restrictions (I think it's no more than four songs by a particular artist within a two-hour period, if I recall correctly.) - but I'm not sure what I did differently that could change my station so drastically. If I wanted more variety on this station - that's what the other station modes are for, isn't it? Maybe there's a possible flaw in the system? The station mode reads 'my station' on my end, but it sure isn't behaving like it's that mode. It sounds more like the station mode is 'crowd faves', but that is not what I have selected. It should also be noted that I have plenty of songs thumbed-up by various other artists that have not appeared within this span of time.

1220 thumbed down songs as of this post.

EDIT: Saw this notice again, today. I wonder if this has something to do with it: 'We’ve noticed some issues that may be affecting your ability to listen or use certain features on Pandora. We are working to address the problem. Thanks for your patience!'

EDIT 2: It appears to be fixed, now. Thank you very much! 🙂

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