I believe both. Over WiFi, I can see the device request a burst of data from the network each time. Over cellular, there is a delay before the song starts playing, which I am assuming to be caused by the same network activity except that the cellular network is slower. ... View more

I think we're confusing each other over the word download. When I say download, I mean it in the traditional sense of transmitting several megabytes of data to my device. If I am using Spotify and I click on the first song of an album, the beginning of the song is transmitted to my device, I start to hear the song, and the rest of the song gets transmitted in the background soon after. Ditto when I click on the second song of that album. However, if I click on the first song again, it will begin playing right away, as it is already in a temporary cache on my device. I can play those two songs over and over without any delay and without having to download their contents from the mobile network over and over against. If I am using Pandora, and return back to the first song, I need to wait several seconds for those same several megabytes of data to be sent over the mobile network all over again before the song starts. ... View more

I'm talking about searching for an artist, selecting an album, and playing it. No advance playlisting, collecting, downloading, etc. Tap the first song on the album, wait for it to download, start listening. Tap the second song on the album, wait for it to download, start listening. Then, return to the first song on the album and it will download that song all over again. It's as if there is no cache at all. It makes exploring an album feel less responsive than Spotify. ... View more

@AdamPandora My original message states that I was able to access my account just fine until opening the Pandora Community site. Support didn't understand that I was reporting a potential bug that they should try to reproduce. Instead, they sent me a form email that assumed my account had been stolen, reset my password, and removed all associated devices from my account. That was frustrating and doesn't address the potential bug, that I was just trying to help by reporting. ... View more

I have created a station from one artist, Unders, and then used the Add Variety feature to include additional artists, most of which are very different from the original artist, such as Patrick Watson. Over and hour and many skips later, I had only heard dance songs, the genre of the source artist. It felt like my additional variety artists were being ignored. I changed the mode of the station to artist only. It played through the Unders songs in the catalog and then reset the mode of the station back to the default, removing the artist only option. I would like a single station to meander through songs that each relate to a different one of the variety artists. How can I configure my station to do this? ... View more