Right now my Jazz Fusion Station is playing Uriah Heep -Stealin', except it is labeled as the song Sweet Freedom, but no matter, I would never place Uriah Heap in a Jazz fusion category, no matter the song. This seems to happen all the time. No matter what station I am playing in my collection, I seem to mostly hear songs I have thumbed up at some place in some other collection. The whole point of paying for Pandora is to hear some songs I wouldn't have heard otherwise. I dont want to be fed a steady diet of my own favorites all the time. If I pick a genre Like Jazz Fusion, Or Bossa Nova, or a artist station like AC DC, George Clinton, Stan Getz,I don't want to hear Stevie Nicks, Norah Jones or Florence and the Machine. When I want to hear them, I will listen to stations I have curated for them. I wrote about this before and a moderator suggested thumbing down songs that appeared that were 'out of sync' but a) I am not always sitting right by my computer or phone to have access to do this; I like to listen while I am doing things around the house like cooking, out side gardening, etc.; b) If I thumb down a song that I like because it is not playing in the right 'lounge', what does that do to the song when I am in the right place for it to play? will I never hear it again? Does it make it thumbs down throughout my account and algorithm?
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