wisepeppy
Diamond in the Rough
| Created | Tier | Playlists | Stations | Thumbs | Music hours | Podcast hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/11/2006 | PREMIUM | 53 | 66 | 344 | 2745 | 2 |
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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4th time trying to post this reply - it keeps disappearing... trying a different browser: 1. Lenovo Thinkpad X12 2. Mode... of the application? The X12 is a tablet which I'm using on a dock as a 'desktop' PC. The Pandora app is the desktop version from the Microsoft Store, used in its... default mode? 3. Wi-Fi (blazing fast fiber internet w/ rock solid service) 4. 15.0.3 (recently un/reinstalled) 5. Windows 10 Pro, v. 22H2, OS build 19045.4046 6. No error messages, the song just spontaneously restarts, as if I had pressed the 'track back' button myself. The issue does seem to be confined to just very long tracks. 7. Yes - I listened to a playlist of long (8-12 minute) songs yesterday using MS Edge, and it played fine. Today I tried the desktop app again, and about half way into the 2nd long song, that song restarted when it reached somewhere around the 5-minute mark.
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I did each of those (Windows) to no avail - the Desktop app still spontaneously restarted songs after trying each of those (resetting the app, then un/reinstalling). Could be coincidental, but it might only be happening on long tracks. e.g. I just watched it happen on The Background World by NIN (11:44) - the track restarted around the half-way mark.
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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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When streaming on-demand music, sometimes while it's in the middle of a track, the desktop app will suddenly stop and restart that track from the beginning. Happens fairly regularly (several times during a workday of listening). This is entirely spontaneous and not a result of anything I'm doing - it can happen when I'm not even touching the mouse or keyboard, so it's no accident. v. 15.0.3.0
Moderator Edit: Changing title for clarity
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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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I encounter this issue when shuffling songs in a playlist in the Desktop app. When a playlist is shuffled, every song should play once, in a random order, and then the music should stop (barring Auto-Play being enabled). Puffdaddy reported this issue three years ago. FIX IT ALREADY!
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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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