Pandora is rapidly and annoyingly becoming everything I pay for music services to avoid. First, the Thumbprint station. I loved this...before. While I do enjoy new music suggestions a lot of the time, there are days when I just want to hear the stuff I already know I like. Thumbprint radio has evidently become just like all other stations with non-thumbed suggestions, but also throwing in the most random and utterly awful suggestions. Worse... Thumbs down no longer seems to work. There are several songs that I have tried to rid from my listening experience, but they just keep coming back, and quite repetitively. And speaking of repetitive, while obviously I do like to hear songs I have given a thumbs up, I can't think of anyone who likes to hear the same song 20 times a day every day. It makes me eventually vote it down just to get rid of it...but then it keeps coming back anyway like a musical zombie that just can't be killed! And finally, the artist commercials/stories. I realize they're not "technically" commercials, but I hate them, they annoy me, they are too frequent, they are extremely repetitive, the little noise that announces them has become like nails on a chalkboard, and I specifically pay Pandora my money so I don't have to listen to people talking. Call them whatever you want, they're commercials. I am not a fan of calling a thing something else to sneak it in where it isn't wanted and someone is literally paying money to avoid it. Now, I have Pandora Plus for the aforementioned absence of commercials. Did the addition of Pandora Premium move the former Plus features to the next pay level? If so, I'm still not getting Premium, I'm just finding another streaming service. There are a lot of them now.
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