I know I automatically get a strike against me because I do embrace the AI aspects with mine, but there is no amount of extreme efforts put in to produce a particular quality sound for a set genre style that fits the stories and emotional tone I want them to tell. I hate that all AI is classified and bunched with those folks who clearly abuse the **ahem** out of it. The amount of time and effort I put in before even integrating AI into any of it, followed by all of the post work I put in arranging and adding to the tracks. Sent from my Galaxy ... View more

You won't get much beyond canned responses sadly. Just a generic they've passed your message or a ticket to the curation team. IF you're lucky they'll just eventually get around to telling you "no". Otherwise you just get ghosted. Pretty sure in their submission policies they state they won't really tell you one way or another if they'll accept your music. You basically just get to figure out that it's not there. Now I won't deny and am very transparent about integrating AI into things, BUT I'm not cranking out bulk **ahem** either. At least by my analytic metrics on other platforms 10,000+ active listeners monthly doesn't come off as **ahem** to me. My lyrics are very personal with specific stories I want told. The other series they are lyrics that exist in my own published works or have been inspired by characters and events within those works. I like to write. I have very specific and peculiar sounds and styles I want and very specific instrumentation and then in my audio program work out all the track layers and sound effects the way I want. There is no lack of effort taking place to be certain. 😞 Sent from my Galaxy ... View more

Yeah. I get that they're one of the few who are curating music with real people who decide what content does and doesn't make it, but when you clearly accept, approve and feel previous submissions were acceptable quality and then deny everything going forward... it puts a hefty negative strike against the brand. I put a TON of work into the stuff I put out their and to be shot down because it uses elements of AI rather than me shelling out countless amounts of $$$ I don't have to studios and physical bands and singers... no thanks. The excuse that it dilutes payments and such is total BS because you get paid per stream. So if no one listens those people aren't getting paid squat anyway. Pandora wasn't my big earner anyway BUT it was my favorite platform I listened on so it always sat in my top streamers to promote never the less. Now? I canceled my subscription to them and leave them out of any and all promotions. If I suddenly am not going to be supported by them, I sure as heck not supporting them either. Sent from my Galaxy ... View more

For a while it was a big run around between Pandora and DistroKid pointing fingers at one another at who was to blame with things being screwed up. Eventually DistroKid sorted out their issues and resubmitted and Pandora support confirmed seeing them and that they had noted the ticket and forwarded along to the Curation Team.  Now sure... I get that the curation team listens and just doesn't approve. But that fact when you're an established artist for over a year now with albums already live... you'd think there'd be a certain benefit to allow the follow ups to said albums. Otherwise they're essentially promoting the loss of listeners who go to other services where they are widely accessible. ... View more

I've been finding Pandora remarkably frustrating of late. I've been an established artist for a year under the name Shadow Cloud. I've had a number of albums released without any issues and had started building a steady following on the platform. No I'm over 3 months out from some releases and I've been having to urge followers here over to alternate platforms to be able to access the most current albums in their respective series. Sadly all I've gotten in the way of support has been the same generic rhetoric about support would reach out to me, that they've passed things along to another team and they would be in contact, after which I'm just utterly ghosted and left with no forward progress. Really kind of put off with the service at this point and the lack of customer service. @AdamPandora  ... View more

I had no issues with 13 previous albums, but I have an Xmas album, and two Sea Shanty Albums that have been missing for over 3 months and only been getting the run around and ghosted by support. I've been having to urge the listeners I had here over to other services at this point since they can't get them here. Good luck. ... View more

Oh they definitely have it. That much they did 100% confirm. They just won't go into any further details as to the extreme delays to it being added when it was always prompt and on time so long as you submitted your releases no less than 2 weeks in advance. It's just a really horrible business model and a steep drop off to customer support that absolutely no transparency or follow up beyond that is given. It's basically "Thanks for submitting, if we like it, we'll add it. If we don't, we aren't going to say squat about it." ... View more

Yeah.... equally frustrating. I've been back and forth with Pandora about it. About as much as they care to reveal transparency-wise is that they FINALLY found the album I'm missing and that it's with their curator team. I have NEVER had such delays with Pandora. 13 albums with them to date and they have always been my primary streamer to promote but at this point... an album that was supposed to release the beginning of June has gone 3 months as a no show on this platform and I'm to the point where I'm going to stop promoting Pandora altogether. It's not worth my time and effort if I can't release new music going forward. Amazon, Spotify and Apple can start to get all the attention instead. Grr. ... View more