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I left Pandora about two years ago, largely over the lack of a year-end review. Alerts for this thread are the only reason I'm here. It's not just the lack of year-end review. There really are not stats available whatsoever. I'm still on Spotify. Overall, I prefer it because of the stats they make available and the larger userbase (e.g. blends with my family members). Still, Pandora does a better job of letting a user create a music channel just by giving thumbs-up and thumbs-down to songs. Spotify makes it harder to add things to a playlist, and their "Smart Shuffle" is not nearly as good as Pandora's algorithm at finding new songs to add to a list. Spotify has the AI DJ, but he's not as good as Thumbprint radio at Pandora when you don't want to focus on one specific channel/playlist. And I swear the Spotify shuffle algorithm must use a faulty random number generator, because the same songs come up way too frequently on a 600-song playlist. There are reasons to use Pandora. But this thread serves as a symbol of the #1 reason I left... they're just mailing it in instead of trying to provide a great user experience.
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I left about a year ago. My account is still active (obviously), but I stopped listening to Pandora and laboriously ported my playlists over to that other music site. The missing year-end stats was just one indicator that Pandora isn't listening to its customer base. The Pandora algorithm is far better than Smart Shuffle (imo). But it isn't worth it for a site that gets lazy and doesn't do the smallest thing to try to hold onto customers.
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I'm not a paying member, but the ads I hear pay Pandora. I might bolt over this issue, too. Such an easy thing to implement.
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I really expected to see Pandora at the end of this thread announcing the return of this feature. Wow. Exposing stats is just about the easiest programming job I can think of. Does Pandora have any developers left?
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Please add a way to remove those modes. I'm tempted to un-thumb certain songs just to get the annoying "curated" modes off of the list. I'm on Pandora so you play songs related to what I thumb - not to listen to somebody else's playlist. At least put them at the bottom of the other play modes (Deep Tracks, etc).
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It's absurd that this is not an option. At least to be able to select a different artist's image as the representative image. An upload option might be more complicated to implement, but letting users select which artist image to display... it's less than an afternoon of development to add that option.
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