Leon, have you read over my comments and have anything to add? ... View more

Well, I had an error with it this morning shortly after posting my solution. Now, I am not sure.... ... View more

Ok, so I looked into the issue of Pandora not playing myself, and adjusted settings in Windows Firewall. So far, I have not had any issues with playback on the Pandora Windows app since doing this. this was done in Windows 10. My steps are as follows: 1) Open Firewall & Network Protection (use search or control panel) 2) Click on "Advanced Settings" 3) Click on "Inbound Rules" 3) Find Pandora in the list double click to open 4) In General tab under Action select "Allow the connection" 5) Repeat Step 4 for any Pandora instances listed under "Inbound Rules" If you have the app you may need to add it (I did). Do this as follows: 1) Click on "New Rule" on the right side of the Inbound Rules page 2) Under Rule Type choose "Program" 3) Under Program choose "This program path" and select the .exe file for Pandora. For me this was located in C:/Program Files/WindowsApps/. Also, I had two Pandora folders each with an .exe and I added both, as I was unsure which was which. 4) Under Action choose "Allow the connection" 5) Under Profile I chose all three "Domain, Private, Public" as I am on a home PC and do not venture outside of my own network with this. If you are on a laptop you may want to leave "public" unchecked. Not totally sure about this 6)Set the name like Pandora 7)Hit finish Hopefully this will solve your issues. I have not tried it yet on the browser version (I use Firefox). I will do that and report back. Hopefully it works. ... View more

Coming back to this, I decided to try turning off my Windows Firewall to see what would happen. After a few trials, I found the playback error was not occurring with Pandora anymore. This tells me Windows Firewall is in fact the culprit for blocking Pandora. I have done some googling, but have not found any solutions to this. Can I please get guidance? ... View more

The problem that arises from the firewall solution is this problem is not consistent as to when it happens and how often. I am not going to turn my firewall off to wait and see if the issue occurs or not. That is a security issue that Pandora is not worth, know what I mean? I would be open to attempting port forwarding, if you could give me information on which port Pandora operates through. I have added Pandora to firewall list to allow it to communicate through Windows Defender Firewall.   Regarding power cycling my modem, I have cycled my modem numerous times for various reasons (even within the last two weeks), and the problem persists. I do concede since the last power cycle I was only operating through the website, and not the Windows app, but would power cycling be a permanent fix to this issue? I do not find it an acceptable solution to restart my modem each time this error occurs with Pandora. ... View more

I have been having this issue with Pandora using Firefox for over a year. Just yesterday I switched to the Pandora app on Windows (downloaded through the Window's Store), and I just had the problem pop up again. The app was working fine all day yesterday and for around the first hour of use this morning and then it occurred. I do not have any privacy apps installed on my desktop except for standard Windows Firewall. I switched to the app because I even after turning off all popup blockers, tracker blockers (duckduckgo), and allowing all permissions for pandora in Firefox setting it would still occur on the web browser. Sometimes multiple times within a couple songs span and sometimes it would play for hours before occurring and reoccurring. ... View more