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After I made the initial post about this, however long ago, the problem did go away after a software update. As I recall, it was Android Auto that updated. Then everything was fine until a couple of months ago, when it started returning to the channels list after a thumb-down. I'm having the issue again, and it seems like several others are as well. And you're completely correct. This is a huge safety issue because it takes the driver's eyes off the road every time Pandora's algorithm plays something stupid or horrible. Which seems to happen in clumps of 5 or more horrible songs in a row recently.
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For what it's worth, they did go away for a while, although the "goes back to station selection screen after thumbing a song down" thing has reappeared for me, and is present in all three of the vehicles I have available to test with.
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My phone recently updated to Android 14, and both of these issues went away. I suspect that as part of the Android update, Android Auto updated as well (since it's now part of the OS instead of a separate app). It's been a week or so now since the OS updated, and everything on the Pandora app on the car screen is back to as it should be. Hopefully yours will resolve itself soon as well.
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Hey, there, Yes, I do have an email case with Pandora Support; after my initial contact, they were very responsive, requested photos of the various screens I was describing, and they gave me a process to try to resolve the issue (which, unfortunately, did not work). I wrote back to them with the results of that attempt (and with some additional information) five days ago, and have not heard back since. I hope it's because someone is working the issue, and not because there is no resolution and no one wants to be the one to tell me that.
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I have also written to Pandora support via email. They responded and asked for photos, so I sent them some this morning. No response yet, but I will update if I learn anything useful.
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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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