@TannerPandora, is there any reason why ad support doesn’t cover the necessary royalty and bandwidth expenses?  I am not a paying subscriber due to budgetary issues, but if I was a paying subscriber, this would, as others have written, likely convince me to dump Pandora. And honestly, the ads don’t bother me much.  I understand that “free” is rarely ever free.  If the ads and subscriber fees don’t cover Pandora’s costs, then the business model for Pandora seems a bit weak. ... View more

@ErickPandora , this message deserves a “thumbs down”.  It would seem inappropriate to upvote this message. @mohempstead , I agree.  This is certainly no surprise.   ... View more

@AdamPandora , Fascinating writeup.  I’d be curious to know what the approximately 450 attributes are.  It would be cool if I could create a station based on, say, 12 of those attributes of my choosing.  (12 is just a random number for this example.) Probably outside your purview, but is there a reason that such a compilation must be proprietary?   ... View more

Thanks @AlyssaPandora.  In a separate thread, I requested additional lyrics, and my suspicion that there might be a licensing issue with including lyrics on more songs was sadly confirmed.   😞  I suppose I should contact LyricFind to get further information about that.  I guess I should also contact TiVo to see if there is more they can do to provide additional information for artists that don’t have bios.  As I wrote, I love reading the story behind the music, so off to TiVo I go. ... View more

Related, when I listen to an album, I am unable to thumb a track, but I think that would probably add greater quality to the algorithm for what Pandora thinks I like. ... View more

@Desirsar , I’d love to be able to do that also.  While my stations seem to make themselves (I rarely thumb and generally know the kind of artist producing music I enjoy), this would allow for all kinds of fun searches and discoveries.   ... View more

@Seph , I like all of these ideas, and appreciate your curating from other posts as it makes it a lot easier to pull everything together in one place. ... View more

@Gornicus, I have occasionally noticed this happening as well.  Sometimes, bands are delineated by geography (Faun is an example, only one of the two I really like, but I do like one of the tracks from the second band), but other times the bands seem to have no delineation.  A delineation of genre in the band name, similar to a delineation of geography might be helpful in these cases. Also, more artist bios would probably help here.  (I’ll start a separate thread on that request.)  That would make it easier to know which of multiple bands with the same name you are probably looking for. ... View more

I like the idea too.  One could, for example, create a “mindfulness” channel.  There are already several podcast creators producing mindfulness exercises, some podcasts longer than others.  I have searched for mindfulness, and Pandora has many, but creating a channel for this would be desirable. ... View more