Yeah, did some more searching while I was opening a trouble ticket with support. I ended up linking them to 4 of the long threads about this problem that they haven't fixed for 1+ years. Support asked me the usual stuff: are you on wifi? did you reboot your router? did you reboot your casting device? did you factory default your casting device? did you force close the pandora app? are you on the latest pandora app version? What is your phone model, software version, carrier, blah blah blah. Useless. I already supplied them all the info they needed in the original contact. But I dutifully answered all their questions, waiting on third response now. But it's too late. After I saw that so many people were having casting problems for so long, I bailed. My poor kids will stay on Pandora free with ads since I can't get their under-13 accounts to work on Spotify. But my wife and I have switched to a Spotify family plan now. I subscribed to Pandora One for years, and moved to Google Play Music after Pandora had become stagnant and not updated their streaming quality, etc. After the demise of GPM I moved to Deezer since the under-13 accounts won't work with YouTube Music (among other issues I had with YTM). But Deezer is so slow and also has casting bugs (although not nearly as severe as Pandora). Spotify just works perfectly with everything, and is fast, and sounds great; if only they supported under-13 accounts properly (without their awful kid mode). Oh well, Pandora's loss. As my kids turn 13 I'll add them to my Spotify plan, and then Pandora won't even get the ad revenue.
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