Welcome to community, @cliffc42!
I moved your post here as it fits best in My Collection board.
How Pandora Works:
Pandora offers three ways to listen: free ad-supported Pandora, Pandora Plus, and Pandora Premium. Each option offers access to our industry-leading radio and podcast service.
As an ad-supported or Pandora Plus listener, you can access stations designed to introduce you to new music through the artists and songs that you know and love. You can type in your favorite artist or song and Pandora will do the rest. Music that is similar to your musical tastes will play in your station.
When listening to stations, you are able to rate music by giving it a Thumbs Up (meaning you like it and want more music like that on your station) or Thumbs Down (meaning you don't like it, or don't want music like that on this particular station). When you give a song a Thumbs Down, that song will never play again on that station. You can find out more about Thumb feedback here.
We use a similar, personalized approach to help you discover podcasts and recommend new ones to you. Thumb up podcast episodes you love, and we’ll recommend more podcasts like it! Thumb down episodes you don’t like, and we’ll tune our recommendations accordingly. Pandora Premium subscribers can enjoy the same service along with the ability to listen to music on-demand and create custom playlists.
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My Collection and Content on Pandora:
To start listening from a mobile device, enter a search term, and filter your results by Artist, Songs, Stations, Podcasts, Playlists, or Albums.
If you search for an artist, tapping the artist's name in your search results will bring you to a page where you can view and play their radio station, Latest Releases, or Top Songs and Albums.*
If you search for a song, tapping the song's name in your search results will bring you to a page where you can play the song, share the song, or start a station.*
If you search for an album, tapping the name of the album in your search results will bring you to a page where you can Play or Share the album, or (if it's available) start a station off that album.*
If you search for a station or genre, tapping the name of the correct search result will bring you to a page where you can collect, play, or share that station.
If you search for a playlist, tapping the name of the correct search result will bring you to a page where you can view and play the playlist.* Pandora Premium subscribers can also Collect, Download and Share those playlists.
If you search for a podcast, tapping the podcast or episode name will take you to a page where you can collect, play or share the podcast or episode.
*Pandora Premium listeners may have additional options. Free and Pandora Plus listeners will need to watch a short advertisement before they are able to listen to songs, albums or playlists on-demand.
You can also use Browse to view personalized recommendations.
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There's a great article that breaks down My Collection here.
You can also edit your stations using this helpful article.
Hope this information answers your questions!
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