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The swipe function is from the playlist view - you drag the song to the left revealing a delete button at the right. Or follow Alyssa's directions for editing the playlist.
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At the very least, when you click the option to "Go to playlist" it should take you to where that song is on the playlist.
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The only version of the album 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage by Cold currently available on Pandora is a terribly edited "Clean" version - it's unlistenable. I would appreciate the unedited "Explicit" version of this album. It's one of my favorites.
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Artist: Tony Iommi Album 1: Iommi Album 2: Fused Genre: Hard Rock / Metal These two albums are currently "Radio Only" on Pandora.
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You have to swipe-left on the song in the playlist to delete it... kind of a 'hidden' function; took me a hot minute to figure it out as well. I agree it should be in the action menu for the song.
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Windows. No error message. It's just a goof in how it was built that needs to be fixed. All you have to do to recreate it is keep pressing the back navigation button until it gets stuck on the Pandora splash screen.
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Pressing the 'back' navigation button on the Dekstop app repeatedly as far as it will go, or, just once after first opening the app, will navigate 'back' to a completely blank blue screen where you can do nothing but close the app and re-launch it. It's a BSOD, Pandora-style.
mod edit: changed title for clarity
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I couldn't care less about a crossfade option, but a gapless transition when listening to an album that's supposed to seamlessly transition from song to song without the music stopping would be much appreciated. I figured the gap was just the unfortunate nature of streaming music, but I now know other services are able to do this perfectly (a previous comment mentioned Spotify, and I just verified Amazon Music does this), so, yeah, get with it Pandora!
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Agreed. I think adding a song to the queue should have two options: (1) Add to queue (adds to the bottom of the queue), and (2) Play next (adds at the top of the queue). When listening to a Station, the entire queue should be the songs that play next, and when the queue is exhausted, the Station should resume playing. I think that establishing a proper queue function is necessary for the Shuffle Playlist issue to be resolved as well. The shuffle feature just continues to randomly sample an entire playlist, rather than playing each song once, in a random order. With a proper Queue function, pressing the Shuffle button on a playlist would add the playlist to the queue in a random order, and it would then inherently play every song once and only once. The potential downfall with a 'proper' queue, which is what irritated me to no end about other streaming apps, is how easy it was to completely delete your queue. If a queue is established, at no time should a single 'click' erase that queue and replace it with a single song you just clicked on. The options should always be "Play Next" or "Add to Queue". Only an instruction to "Clear queue" should clear the queue. When clicking Play on an entire Playlist or Album, a reasonable third option might be "Replace queue". Finally, and this should go without saying, but it apparently has to be said - this functionality should be identical across all platforms. Currently, there isn't any queue function on the Desktop app at all.
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Desktop app as well! This feature exists on the mobile app... as a general rule, any feature present on one app/platform should exist on all apps.
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I recently upgraded to Premium and when I first tried queuing while listening to a station, I thought the feature was straight up broken because nothing in my queue would play - the station kept on going with random selections. I went right to submitting a support request and got the same unexpected explanation of how a Pandora queue 'works'. The consensus expectation is clearly that queued songs will play next, and then the station will resume. Adding to the queue should also have a 'play next' option to add the song at the top of the queue. After you fix the queue on the mobile app, bring it over to the desktop application (where the queue function is entirely missing).
The included screenshot shows text that says "lined up to play next", but they don't play next. What purpose is some ephemeral playlist like this supposed to serve? It makes no sense.
Haha - what's the point of turning the queue on or off when it's always off?
Moderator Edit: Merged comments
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My 'chill' music takes a couple forms... one is illustrated by Pandora's Trip Hop Radio, and the other is what I call Bleeding Me Radio, which is broody rock music, inspired by the Metallica song.
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I've been a long time Pandora Plus subscriber and just recently upgraded to Premium. The on-demand listening is a whole new world for me, and I'm overwhelmed by how to build my account. My typical listening experience is to start one of my Stations, and while listening a particular song might prompt me to (1) go listen to the entire album that song is on or otherwise explore that artist's catalog, or (2) want to 'save' that song in some fashion. It's option #2 that's got me wondering how other folks do it. My Stations are typically geared towards a mood, like "chill music". So, if I hear a chill song I really like, I'm tempted to add it to my Collection, and add it to a "Chill" Playlist. But is it useful to anyone to have individual songs in your Collection? I'm a CD-era listens-to-the-whole-album kind of guy. I'm at a loss for when I would choose to listen to a Playlist (e.g. a "Chill" Playlist vs. my "Chill" Station), or to use my Collection to listen to an individual song, vs an entire album that I like. I'm conflicted on whether I should add absolutely everything that I remotely like to my Collection, or if my Collection should be a scant assortment of only my absolute favorite things that I would specifically listen to often, and then maybe only whole albums? How do you all 'save' that one-off random song you really like - where do you 'put' it, if you're not particularly interested in that artist or album as a whole? What about something you want to save for later - like a new album you want to listen to, but don't know yet if you'll like it? I love that Pandora offers all these features to build your account in a way that suits you, but I'm kind of at a loss as to how best to utilize them. TIA!
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I'm a Pandora Plus subscriber, and I tried a trial of Premium, and I canceled that trial immediately after discovering I could not edit my Shuffle from within the app (Android), and for no other reason. That's my single most-used feature in the app, and I'll never even consider upgrading to Premium until this is fixed. Why would I pay more for less functionality?
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In my experience, it didn't take much thumbing of tracks for Pandora to pick up on the fact that a particular station was intended to be instrumental songs only, and then to only play instrumental tracks. I only have two such stations, but I'm disappointed to hear that's not a consistent experience for others. If thumbing doesn't consistently work, I agree there should be a means of specifying this, but it begs the question, what other song-characteristics should be allowed to be turned on or off for a station? I think this touches on some other FR's I've seen for adding the ability to manually adjust all the criteria that selects songs for a station - i.e. all the 'music genome' characteristics, like "heavy vamping", and "male vocal aesthetic" and whatnot. I envision a slider for each where you can weight each aspect more or less heavily, and maybe others are just an on/off switch, like whether or not it's instrumental-only. [edit] I've been listening to my "Rock Instrumental" station most of the day today, and I think I've had to thumb-down more lyric-containing songs than instrumentals I've actually listened to... it seems the thumbing algorithm isn't as good as it used to be at picking up on a desire for instrumental tracks. Today, I really want a selector for choosing instrumental-only tracks on a station. ...aaaaand another lyrical song just started playing as I'm typing this...[/edit]
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Done. https://community.pandora.com/t5/Feature-Requests/Ability-to-create-a-new-station-using-the-same-artist-seed-that/idi-p/17657
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I agree with this sentiment. I have many stations that are seeded with multiple artists, and I like those stations as they are, 'tuned' a certain way with their seeds and their thumbs. But, I would still like to create other, different stations that have some of the same artists as existing stations. Or, as the OP mentioned, even though an artist exists as a seed on a 'curated' station, you might still want to listen to a 'fresh' station seeded with that artist, for a slightly different listening experience from the first curated station. Pandora used to allow this, and then something was changed, and it's super frustrating and seems totally unnecessary a restriction. Pandora keeps updating itself to death.
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I agree. I get that they want this feature to be limited on the Plus account, and I think limiting the number of offline stations you can have is a fine way to do that, but I think that forcing your offline stations to be the ones you listen to most makes the feature just a tacky preview of the feature, rather than something that's actually functional. The stations I listen to most are the ones I listen to at home, when I can be online, and where I'm often listening with other people. The stations I would want to have available offline are ones that I listen to when I travel, or are otherwise listening to by myself, and therefore are ones I listen to less often. Also, I'll thumb-down songs that I actually like simply because they don't fit into what I want a particular station to be. This of course will skew my Thumbprint Radio away from songs I would actually like on my Thumbprint Radio, and as such my Thumbprint Radio isn't a station I particularly care for, and never listen to, so having it automatically chew up one of my four offline station slots is bothersome. I would gladly accept an offline station limit on my Plus account as low as just one station if I had the ability to choose what station that is (though, I think four is a nice number).
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I came to the site to suggest a feature, and was pleased to find the Feature Request area, with the ability to 'vote' for features that have already been requested by 'liking' the post. So, I searched for the feature I wanted to suggest and found an existing post, but I was unable to 'like' that post from the search results, nor was I able to 'like' that post from within that post (after clicking on the search result). So, I had to go back to the root Feature Requests page, scroll through pages of posts to find the one I wanted to vote for so I could click on the heart icon there.
Add a 'like' button at minimum on the view-post page, and additionally by each search result.
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This would be really useful for me. I have a variety of stations that each capture a particular 'mood', or the tastes of particular guests or members of the household, so I most often listen in Shuffle mode depending on what variety of music I want, or who's listening. To see where a song is coming from, so that a proper decision can be made on whether to thumb it up/down or not, would be very useful.
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