Pandora used to be good. Now all Pink Floyd songs are cut off before the song ends . Also when I'm listening to a station, Pandora plays songs from other stations. Like I'm listening to Alice& Chains station then a Jonie Mitchel song is played. Completely inappropriate to the station. I think Pandora is using A.I. tech to choose the songs. That removes the human element to song choices. A. I. is bad mojo and should never be used.
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@BoboSixx Nice to see you around the community.
Pink Floyd songs are cut off before they end:
I definitely hear where you are coming from, but we're caught in a complicated set of licensing rules that were designed for the world of pop songs and ignore the realities of how music is presented by the record labels. One rule prevents us from playing a number of consecutive tracks from the same album.
Unfortunately, many labels choose to divide intros (and sometimes longer songs) into separate tracks. We are required to treat each track as a separate "song". The result is as you describe. We're torn between offering portions of fine performances of outstanding music and not offering those works at all.
That being said, you may consider upgrading to Pandora Premium, which allows you to search and play full albums on-demand.
I also recommend upvoting this existing Idea with a ❤️, and leaving a comment with your feedback: Ideas: Play songs that are meant to be together back to back
Hearing out of place tracks on your station:
I took a look at your account and don't actually see an Alice & Chains station in your collection.
The complete range of musical attributes for all of the songs we have by the artist you used to create the station. For example, for a station based on Brian Eno, you might hear rock songs and ambient music. You might try creating a station from one of the artist's songs instead (e.g. Lucky Star by Madonna). This should make the station much more specific.
To improve your stations, here are a couple of things to try:
If you'd like one of our support agents to take a closer look at your station, please contact them directly through our help page here.
@BoboSixx Nice to see you around the community.
Pink Floyd songs are cut off before they end:
I definitely hear where you are coming from, but we're caught in a complicated set of licensing rules that were designed for the world of pop songs and ignore the realities of how music is presented by the record labels. One rule prevents us from playing a number of consecutive tracks from the same album.
Unfortunately, many labels choose to divide intros (and sometimes longer songs) into separate tracks. We are required to treat each track as a separate "song". The result is as you describe. We're torn between offering portions of fine performances of outstanding music and not offering those works at all.
That being said, you may consider upgrading to Pandora Premium, which allows you to search and play full albums on-demand.
I also recommend upvoting this existing Idea with a ❤️, and leaving a comment with your feedback: Ideas: Play songs that are meant to be together back to back
Hearing out of place tracks on your station:
I took a look at your account and don't actually see an Alice & Chains station in your collection.
The complete range of musical attributes for all of the songs we have by the artist you used to create the station. For example, for a station based on Brian Eno, you might hear rock songs and ambient music. You might try creating a station from one of the artist's songs instead (e.g. Lucky Star by Madonna). This should make the station much more specific.
To improve your stations, here are a couple of things to try:
If you'd like one of our support agents to take a closer look at your station, please contact them directly through our help page here.
I have the premium account and several of Pink Floyd songs it only plays part of the song. This happens often. I thought my premium subscription was suppose to avoid this.
Hi @brendee56 , thanks for posting!
I'm happy to look into this for you, but I'll need a bit more information. Can you tell the following?
Let me know!
@brendee56 I moved your post over to this existing thread: Stations: Tracks/long songs are split up
Check out the accepted solution for more information around why those tracks by Pink Floyd are separated when listening on your stations.
This being said, since you are upgraded to Pandora Premium, you do have the ability search for that specific album to play each song in full on demand. I recommend listening this way when listening to this specific artist.
Hope this helps explain.
Here's another example. Gary Moore--artist. Still Got the Blues for You----song. Awesome song but as soon as Gary goes into his solo the track fades out and goes to the next track. Pandora cuts off the best part of the track. A lot of Pink Floyd songs, especially ones that move into another movement, never get played. I imagine it's the way Pandora has their server set up? Don't know. I do know that in business there is a term called VAVE. Value Added Value Engineering. If the bottom line isn't directly improved companies are hesitate to spend time or resources fixing something they do not consider broken.
@Eighthnote74 I moved your post over to this existing thread: Stations: Tracks/long songs are split up
Check out the accepted solution for more information around why those tracks (such as the ones by Pink Floyd) are separated when listening on your stations.
I hope this helps explain.
Accepted solution? Accepted by whom? The Pink Floyd answer is somewhat reasonable but that doesn't make it right or acceptable. The Gary Moore track in my original post doesn't meet that criteria for cutting tracks in half. The track is 6:17 long but on Pandora we only get 4:00 of it. It's not a split track. It's not a different movement. It doesn't have a pause or key change. It just fades away 2 minutes before the track is finished.