I have had many times I have gotten tired of a certain song playing too much on Pandora and then having to go to a different station to not hear it so often.
I want to propose a feature that will allow the user to press a button to put this song on hold for a certain amount of time. You can select the amount of time in settings with a setting option of "Hold time" this setting option will have times of hours, days, or weeks for this song to not be played again.
This feature can even be implemented with google assistant, Siri, Alexa, etc. The user will say for example if you have Android: "Hey Google" "Hold this song" Then Pandora will hold that song for the amount of time selected in Settings.
Now the counter argument to this would be "well you could just skip the song", but then that doesn't solve the problem because in some cases that same song will play again in an hour or two. It would be easier to just put the song on hold compared to just keep skipping the song. Another argument might be "just dislike it if you don't want to hear it", but what if the user still wants to listen to the song in the future just not today or this week.
I personally think this feature would be a breaking point for Pandora and would definitely increase it's user base because the main problem with radio stations is the same song playing too much.
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