This past week, I've suddenly noticed issues with Pandora browser on Windows 10. Both Firefox and Chrome are having separate problems. This includes private/incognito mode and making sure ad blockers etc. are off.   Firefox Sometimes starts two songs at once and plays both. Both appear in my tracklist, one after another, but play at the same time. Current latest two are The Supine by Andrew Bird and The Celts by Enya on my Beneath the Night Sky station. If I pause, sometimes both will stop, or sometimes only the most recent track stops. As soon as I hover over the tab again, they start on their own, sometimes even still being shown as paused. I have to refresh to fix it. This happens randomly, both when I manually ask it to skip a track and when it naturally moves from a completed track to a new one. I’m listening on My Station mode. Other station modes behave the same way.   It also randomly skips one or two songs between tracks, especially if I have to reload the page for the above issue. Sometimes skips 2-3 in a row when I tell it to skip one track.   Chrome Does not skip tracks, but occasionally has a long lag time - up to 15 seconds - between them during normal play. Sometimes a station pauses itself at the end of a song and requires me to manually start it again. Last time this happened it had only played about 3 tracks, and there was no “are you still listening” notification. It just stops on its own.   This all started the morning of July 05.   mod edit: changed title for clarity ... View more

Somehow the High Kings' Memory Lane album has had an "explicit" added to the end of it. I'm not sure why. I've been listening to this album for years, and it's never had that marking before. It's not an explicit album and is not labeled that way anywhere. I'm assuming the algorithm has once again messed up and melded information from something similarly named, but unrelated. I'm assuming this is quite bad for the band/music label if listeners have explicit content turned off, and their music is incorrectly being blocked. https://www.pandora.com/artist/the-high-kings/memory-lane-explicit/ALqtVdf425pKtgk ... View more

I'm currently having issues with my Beneath the Starry Night station. A couple weeks ago, I thumbed up a track that was similar in style to the music on the station and by an artist I wasn't familiar with, to try and add a little bit of variety. Emphasis on a little.   Since then, the entire station altered because of this one track. Half the time, it refuses to play the mellow piano/string combo music I intended it for and plays to folk/western inspired twangy stuff instead. I removed the thumbs up that caused the initial problem and have thumbed down tracks that pop up, but it still persists, and it's not removing whatever musical elements it dragged in. Now, when I do hear music from the original seed/thumbed up artists on the station, it's often the same ones over and over and over and over. Deep Cuts, which is supposed to be playing less heard pieces by main artists on the station, is playing either the same overplayed pieces from the main channel or pieces from artists I've never heard of, who fall under the twangy western sound I don't want. I heard one overplayed song from a seed artist, about 5 tunes that didn't fit, then the same seed artist tune again. Discovery is also a complete wreck and giving me either the same repetitive tunes from familiar artists or stuff that is unrelated to the original intention of the station. At this point I can't switch modes on that station anymore because my attempts to correct things have run me out of skips. I've been trying for days to correct things with thumbs ups/etc. and it just won't...   I'm at a loss what to do. This is the 3rd/4th time I've created a station in this music style to try and get around the Pandora's issues of repetition/playing music that doesn't suit the station. It seems to happen over and over. I can't keep creating a new one every few weeks. and I don't want Pandora premium to 'make a custom playlist' as I'm trying to add variety to the station while still maintaining the same style of music. I can't add variety when I am not getting new artists that match what I want.   At this point, is there at least a way for someone in the back-end to remove any country/western-themed station notes that might be buried in that particular station? Because it seems like the system doesn't care what I tell it now. This is weeks of station tuning completely wrecked and now I have to go back to one of my old ones and pray it doesn't get repetitious again, too. ... View more

Looks like another link is now not working related to the Pandora community. When I am using Pandora in a browser and click the "community" link from the drop-down menu, I get an Internal server error. Tried this from multiple browsers like Firefox and MS Edge. Latest updates on all. I can only access the community by hand-typing the URL in my browser or accessing through a search engine. This has been happening for over a week.   ... View more

My Frozen in Time station is set up to be a pared down, simple (mostly-instrumental) collection of pieces based around largely piano + violin or cello. I use it to focus on other tasks. While some pieces I have upvoted are based off of hymns, I’m downvoting anything with background “ambient” noises like waves or birds; covers of pop songs; and traditionally Classical works like concertos, suites, canons, etc. This includes really well-known Classical pieces. Basically, I don’t want bgd sound effects, I don't want ambiently slow spa/sleep pieces, and I don’t want tunes that are so common or heavily based on lyrics that I’m paying attention to that instead of using the music to focus. Unfortunately, the algorithm seems to spontaneously ignore these preferences, and at this point, my thumbs on the station are about 1-to-2 favoring downvotes. I’ve downvoted 5-6 versions just of Pachelbel’s Canon in D! Today, I had another well-known Classical piece pop up in the algorithm. I figured since it was a piano sonata, it just selected it because of that, but when I clicked “Why This Song?” it said one of the reasons was it was an “Acclaimed piece.” This is what I've been avoiding and downvoting! I’ve also had it multiple times select things “Because” it has a slow ambient pace or background ambient sounds despite me consistently downvoting these, too. What’s going on, here? How do I get the algorithm to stop selecting styles I’m downvoting as recommendations? Please note: deleting and starting the channel over isn’t an option. This is one that was already created as a successor to another station that started repeating the same songs over and over or picking things that didn’t fit at all. I can’t keep making and retailoring a new station every 4-6 months, and clearly that hasn't been working anyway, as evidenced by the high downvote rating on this 'new' station. ... View more