Hey, all, recently I have noticed two really bad UI changes to Pandora under Android Auto, and I'm wondering whether 1) anyone else has experienced these same issues, and 2) whether there is a workaround or fix or something. On the Pandora screen on AA, down at the bottom where there used to be the Thumbs-down, Skip, Pause/Play, Repeat, and Thumbs-up buttons, now there are Skip, Repeat, Pause/Play, Another Skip button that looks different, and then a three-dots kabob button that pops up a separate row of controls, which has the Thumbs-up and Thumbs-down buttons on it. This is ridiculous for an app designed to be used in a car, because it means that to thumb up or down a song, you have to take your eyes of the road twice (or once for longer) to reach these commonly-used controls, and there's no apparent difference in functionality between the old >>| and the new >| control, so there's no reason to have relegated the thumb controls to a submenu. Then on top of that, any time I thumbs-down a song, it doesn't just skip to the next track, it takes me back to the "These are all of your channels" list pane, and I have to re-select the channel I was already listening to. So what used to be a one-touch "Thumbs-down" action has become a three-step (Kabob-Menu, Thumb-down, Reselect-the-channel) process, which is cataclysmically stupid for an app interface intended for use while driving. Does anyone have any ideas?
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