The irony here is I'm using the service in the US, but I'm an engineer who knows how to bypass geo-blocking without VPN if I really wanted.  VPN isn't the only way of doing that.  Also, Pandora never felt the need to force this issue in the previous 11.5 years of my subscription. It's painfully sad that you're forcing an issue that won't actually prevent experts who want to bypass geo-blocking from doing so. ... View more

@AlyssaPandora, to be honest, I find that response...problematic.  I've been a paid subscriber to Pandora since 2009.  I am almost always on VPN.  Until just a couple of months ago, I have never had a problem (and still don't if I'm on Windows).  But now, even though I've never had a problem before while on VPN, I'm told it's not a feature that's supported? Pandora has *always* worked on VPN.  I see from the link you provided that VPN not working is something new and due to a change on Pandora's side.  To be clear, I don't get to control my VPN.  The Fortune 500 company I work for gets to control my VPN.  I don't get to change the configuration.  The fact that Pandora would make this change without even giving their customers a heads up is pretty disgraceful when it comes to customer orientation. To be *crystal* clear, if I can't use Pandora on VPN, I have no need for Pandora.  If I have no need for Pandora, my 12 year investment in money and time crafting my own channels will come to an end. ... View more

One thought on this.  If I have my VPN on, audio cuts out at exactly 3 minutes regardless of which browser or which VPN I'm using.  When I turn my VPN off, I no longer have an issue. One other data point. If I turn VPN back on, after a new song comes on, it stops again 3 minutes into the new song. I'm not sure the "playhead" error message from above is really related to what's going on here though I may be wrong. 3000 seconds is 50 minutes and not 3 minutes. There's something that's timing out after 180 seconds. I *can* vouch for the fact that music will start playing again and from my experience, that 3000 second timeout might be right for that.   mod edit: format ... View more