@DominicusSaxon I moved your post over to this existing thread: Importing music from My Library to Pandora
I'm happy to address each of your questions.
Moving music to Pandora from another streaming platform:
Playing music from an external source isn't a feature of Pandora. In the meantime, I recommend upvoting this existing feature request to express your interest in getting it added to the service: Import my own music / Upload music from other streaming platforms
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Benefits of a Pandora Premium subscription:
Based off of the questions you are asking, it sounds like you'd be more interested in a Pandora Premium subscription.
This level of subscription allows you to collect and listen to music on demand (so that you can pick and choose what music you want to listen to). A Pandora Plus subscription on the other hand only allows you to collect and listen to our curated radio stations.
With Pandora Premium, you do get to listen without advertisements, as well as skip/rewind/replay/shuffle through your content.
Check out this help page article for a further breakdown on the benefits of a Pandora Premium subscription.
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Listening to podcasts without commercials:
This depends on the recording of the actual podcast.
Some podcasts on Pandora are pre-compressed audio files, so advertisements that appear in the original recording will still be heard. Since these are not advertisements from Pandora, they cannot be removed or disabled.
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Offline listening:
Offline listening with Pandora Premium allows you to download not only your collected stations, but any songs/albums/playlists you've collected or created as well.
Pandora Plus subscribers on the other hand cannot choose which stations they'd like available for offline listening. Instead, Pandora will download up to three of your most-listened to stations as well as your Thumbprint Radio and make them available on your offline station list.
Check out this help page article for more information.
I hope this helps answer your questions. Feel free to reach back out if there is anything else we can assist you with.
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