Problem seems to be resolved for me! I'm so proud. 6 months of work and we're back where we were 10 years ago! ... View more

Here's my verbose theory: The Software guys at Pandora architected their Amazon integration wrong. Other music apps (for example) can tell the app to play on external devices (from the app). Pandora not being able to do that has always been a big negative in my opinion. Recently (like in the last 6 months), Amazon changed their architecture to keep track of musical "streams" if you will. You can have one stream playing to this group and another stream playing to a different group. The idea of having different streams playing to different devices or groups of devices is a very good idea. But, in order to implement, Amazon changed the architecture. When they changed the architecture, they inadvertently broke some streaming services (like Pandora). Because Pandora's architecture was bad form the get go, it made matters worse. I suspect that the guys at Pandora are wondering how much longer Amazon will be the leader of the pack in multi-room music services. And what it will take to completely re-architect their client platform. Maybe it's already in process? Since Amazon is losing $10 billion/year supporting Echo devices, you have to think the support is not going to last much longer. If I'm Pandora, I am spending my money making the app more robust. If I can start playing my stations from the Pandora app and then tell the app to stream it to this group of "Echo", "Play-fi", "Airplay" or "Sonos" devices, I am much happier. I'm not sure you want to invest in a system that says, "Now playing your smooth jazz station from Pandora" when you specifically requested, "Alexa, play my headbanging thrashmetal from hell station on Pandora". It just doesn't make sense. ... View more

Since Alexa won't play my stations via Voice, I have to come here to entertain myself. Anyway, funny/sad story: Early last week, I decided to contact Amazon support. It's "chat" support. Login to your Amazon account and keep clicking "other" until you actually talk to a person. I tell them, "Yeah, I've got this routine that runs every morning to get me out of bed and I've not modified it in years and now suddenly it quit working". They say, "Does it give you any errors". To which I respond, "Yeah, it is suddenly telling me it can't find my "Awesome Stuff" station on Pandora" Without going line by line, they asked me a bunch of stupid questions like, "have you tried it on multiple devices?", "have you tried disabling and re enabling the skill". Then, they gave me a long list of things to try and told me to get back with them when I was done. "Leave the chat window open". By the time I was done with all their steps (it involved enabling the skill via the web browser instead of the app and other things), I typed it that "I was done, but the routine still doesn't play my station". So, apparently, the Amazon tech chats timeout after about 5 minutes and my "chat was assigned to a new person". They asked if I was a new Pandora user and I sadly informed them that I've been paying for Pandora for probably about 20 years. And furthermore, this same routine has been working for the last 5 or more. They gave me more stuff to try and it again timed out. By this time I was insane with just trying to get someone to fix the darn thing so I kept going. I  went through six support people before I said, "Look, you're the 7th person I've chatted with and you all ask the same questions. Could you just read through the 2 hours of chat and send me an email when it's fixed." Well, 3 days later, my routine worked again! I thought yay! And later that day, I said, "Alexa, play my Awesome Stuff station from Pandora" and she said, "I can't find Awesome Stuff on Pandora" 😞 My routine still works though! On a side note, I've noticed that Amazon has introduced "streams". I can have different streams of music playing on different devices or groups of devices. I think this is as much a Pandora problem as it is an Amazon problem. However, being in the software industry for 25+ years, I can guarantee you it shouldn't be this difficult to fix. Seems like it's more political and/or financial.   ... View more

Since Pandora will hopefully have to fix this anyway, I'd like to add that it is very irritating that when Alexa plays some random crazy station that has nothing to do with the exact station I wanted to play, that Pandora also adds this station to my account! I'd like to "at least" have an option to not create stations from Alexa. Today, I said, "Play my Hooligan Favorites station from Pandora". Alexa said, "Playing Hooligan's Radio". Then, when I launch my Pandora App on my phone, Hooligan's Radio has been added to my account. So, first, they should fix the Alexa interface. Second, they should not add Alexa's invented stations to my account. Thanks! And try to get it done by the end of the week. It's just software. ... View more

Sent a bug report to Amazon a couple of days ago. Today, I disabled and enabled my Pandora skill and the Alexa app started working again. Coincidence? Who knows... ... View more

To be fair, I switched to another service (that starts with an S) and it is having similar issues. I believe the problem is more with Amazon than Pandora. Need more choices for multi-room music 🙂 ... View more

A funny story. I had one station that wouldn't play via voice, but I could play via the app. I would say, "Alexa play my Gar Station on Pandora" and she would say, "there is no Gar Station on Pandora". So then, I would open the app and click "Gar Station" and she would play it. I thought to myself, "Ok, I'll just disable and re-link the app in Alexa". So, I did. Now she won't play via voice and the app has the infamous "skill not enabled". But, I know it is enabled because I can tell her to "shuffle all my stations" and it works just fine. Now, the Alexa app is useless. 😞 Hopefully someone is working on this. ... View more