Is there any update to this behavior? It is only getting worse and worse. I've created several test stations over the last few months, only a singular seeded song, and have been spamming Thumbs Down/I'm tired of this song until the song plays.. and it just will continue to not play.   There are so many other threads who voice similar concerns, especially on seeds not playing, the repetition, and stations seemingly sharing information with other stations in the background.   As example: https://community.pandora.com/t5/My-Collection/Nothing-but-repeats/m-p/207876#M36145 ... View more

Honestly, the Pandora station algorithm/formula is trash now and feels more and more like the repetitive nature of Spotify. I have emailed support so many times, created so many new threads because they preemptively close them via AI chat bots.. but no one can help.   I have had 4 stations that I have been testing this last year, my original 'Hardcore' station, 'Hardcore 2', 'Hardcore 3', and 'Hardcore Test' - for 2, 3, and Test, I have only set 1 singular song seed, 'Masochist' by Polaris. I will then literally only click Thumbs Down or 'I'm tired of this song' for any song that isn't it.. and the song has yet to play. This has been going on for 9-12 months now at this point, since it started at the end of 2025. I've asked support countless times to tell me when the last time the song played naturally on the station was, not the last time I direct played the song via Pandora Premium.. and they literally cannot give me an answer. My Poppunk playlist also hasn't played 1 of its 5 station seeds for over a year either.   It seems on the backend all of these stations are just getting linked to each other for some reason, it carries over the same songs, even unrelated genres that popped up on station 1.. like clockwork.. will play on the other stations. Why? How? How is it pulling this obscure song of an unrelated genre 4 different times on 4 different stations that have no connections? Clearly, they are all connected on the backend, or tied to "Thumbs Up Playlists" without the ability to see it/remove it.. but it's just so annoying now as it feels more and more like Spotify.   I've been a Premium subscriber for over 15 years, I think I'm done. I'm just gonna go back to pirating music and making my own playlists. Music used to soothe me, especially while driving in traffic.. but now I just hear the same songs repeated nonstop, sometimes 3-4 times in a 4 hour session. Meanwhile, Pandora continues to remove customer support in favor of AI.    I am thoroughly annoyed. ... View more

Checking in from June 2026, 2 years later and this issue still persists. Every single time I thumbs down a song it returns to Recently Played instead of just staying on the station. ... View more

I am not discussing auto play stations, as I do not use them, only stations created directly from artists or songs, and I always have. My primary use of Pandora is for these stations while traveling (driving), meaning this is not helpful for my primary use as that would require me to operate a phone while driving. I was curious if there's a wider issue going on so I created a brand new station based off of only the song in question, and immediately it started just only playing the same songs that are played repetively on my other station (the one that hasn't played the seed song in 12 months). It's almost like it's pulling that stations info for this new station.. why?  Does any Pandora engineer have the ability to see the date a song was last played by a station? -- Why is this marked as "Solved"? This issue has been prevalent for a while and is getting more and more repetitive.. I just tested creating a brand new station with only one song as the seed, almost immediately it was repeating the same songs from my similar station created off of similar artists/songs.. I have been using the 'Tired of this track' feature nonstop, yet songs keep coming back after only a few hours of listening, constantly only playing the songs that were thumbs'd up from the other station. How long does a song get put on hold when you use this feature? Why is my brand new station seemingly carrying over preference data from another station? Moderator Edit: Merged comments ... View more

I have been experiencing this same issue recently, two of my stations haven't heard a few of the "seed" songs for several months, maybe even over a year.. I have been a Pandora Premium subscriber for over 10 years, between this and the repetition it's starting to feel a lot like Spotify, which I hated and was the reason I've always stuck with Pandora.   Is there really nothing that can be done? Do I have to create a new station and start all over? Is there any way to review the station activity and confirm the last time a song played? ... View more

Thanks for the confirmation!   Separate question - is there a known issue currently about songs repeating very frequently in stations? I always chose Pandora over Spotify because I would hear the same songs on Spotify every hour or two.. but now that's starting to happen on my stations despite them having hundreds of thumbed up songs.  ... View more

I have been experiencing the same issue, on Android, Pandora version 2603.1. I noticed none of my stations have played any of the seed songs in over 2 months, went to go edit the variety source, app crashes instantly every time, so now I can't hear my station seeds or edit anything.  ... View more