Thanks so much for your feedback, and welcome to the community, @trw6142! 🎧
Hearing what our listeners have to say is extremely valuable to us, and it means a lot that you care enough to speak up. In the meantime, I moved your post over to the My Collection board to keep the community organized.
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Loud Advertisements:
We know ads can be disruptive to the listening experience. One thing to keep in mind is that music has a much wider dynamic range (the difference in volume between the softest and loudest parts) in comparison to ads. As a result, only the loudest parts of songs may sound as loud as commercials (which by design have little dynamic range). Dynamic differences between music and ads can also vary based on the genre of music or when the track was recorded. Unfortunately, we do not have the ability to change the volume of ads dependent upon the station on which they play.
I would recommend upvoting this existing feature request to choose the types of ads you'd like to experience during your listening sessions.
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Classical Tunes:
We are continually working on ways to present classical music on Pandora radio stations in a more appropriate manner. On that note, we now have a station dedicated to full classical works that you can check out here. Also, you may be interested in this article from our blog discussing some interesting things about the evolution of Pandora's classical selection.
Feel free to check out this these steps regarding adding variety to your stations. Running through these steps may help with the repetition you're experiencing.
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Contact Info:
We do have a User Support team that can always be contacted here. Sharing your experiences in the community is also helpful, in case others are experiencing similar issues.
I'm also happy to have someone from our User Support team reach out to you via email to offer assistance with your stations. Let me know if you'd like to me to have some contact you directly.
Thanks again for your valuable feedback!
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