I have been having this same problem with my Pandora account - I have been casting to my Google Home for years with no issues, but now Pandora is all but useless for me. iTunes and Spotify cast just fine, the problem is clearly with Pandora. I've followed all troubleshooting advice on this thread, but any attempt to play Pandora anywhere but my phone is just an endlessly frustrating 3-5 seconds of each song as it attempts to connect, has just silence, and then says "failed to connect", skips to the next song, repeat. I can confirm that after the app says that's it's failed to connect, the Google Home shows that Pandora is still linked, so I am also experiencing that partial handshake. Pixel 3 Android 11 Pandora 2112.1 I've barely used Pandora over the last months due to this - it wouldn't kill me to cancel over it, though it's hard to give up over a decade of history.
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