Hi @dbronner!
Happy to help explain this. I've taken a look at your account and I see that your a Pandora Plus subscriber, however, you are triggering a complimentary session of Premium in order to listen to on-demand content, which is why you're seeing ads.
As a Plus subscriber you'll receive:
All advertising removed
Create radio stations and enjoy podcasts
Higher quality audio
Skip all you want
Replay songs
Listen offline with your Android or iOS phone
We've updated your experience so that you have the ability to listen to content on-demand, without being a Pandora Premium subscriber.
If you search for and select the name of an artist, or track, or album, you should be brought to a "backstage page" where you can either create a radio station or press play. If you press play you indicate that you'd like to listen to that content right away (or "on-demand"). Since only Pandora Premium subscribers can listen on-demand, you will either see an ad for Pandora Premium, or be prompted to watch a video ad to unlock a complimentary session of Pandora Premium. Keep in mind that upgrading to Pandora Premium or accepting a complimentary session of Pandora Premium is completely optional; you can close the ad and we'll create a station for you to listen to instead (if one is available).
Hope that explains Premium Access Sessions. Let me know if you have any other questions about this.
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To address the issue of playback stopping:
Can you clarify some details for me. In your last post, you said that there was no advertisement, just the announcement of the Premium session.
Did Pandora just stop or appear to freeze?
Did you have to refresh the page for Pandora to resume playback?
To confirm, there was no advertisement that followed the Premium Session announcement?
Thanks for the help and your patience while we look into this.
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