It has to do with PulseAudio on Linux Mint. I won't get too deep into the specifics. When the PC is idle for a period of time this goes into hibernation. If you run Pandora PulseAudio is not reactivating properly. I used the terminal to restart PulseAudio and the problem immediately cleared up while Pandora was playing. ... View more

Sad to say, problem was not resolved. It came back, and continues to come back using Firefox on Linux Mint 19. Closing tabs is not resolving the issue these past few times. ... View more

Thanks @AlyssaPandora  I just posted this in another thread on the same issue. I'll duplicate my resolution here. -- I solved this problem on my end. Perhaps this will help others: This problem happens on my desktop only. When I use Firefox on my PC to listen. I have a dual boot machine and it was not happening on Windows 10 - Firefox. Only when I was using Linux Mint 19.2. I thought this was the issue, and there could still be something going on with the OS, but this morning I solved this issue with closing browser tabs in Firefox while Pandora was running. After closing about 5 tabs out of 30+ it cleared up. I have 32GB of memory but by all appearances this does not seem to be enough to cache all of these browser pages and run Pandora smoothly. When using Firefox in Windows 10, I did not have as many tabs open. Hope this info helps others. Good luck. ... View more

I solved this problem on my end. Perhaps it will help others. This problem happens on my desktop only. When I use Firefox on my PC to listen. I have a dual boot machine and it was not happening on Windows 10 - Firefox. Only when I was using Linux Mint 19.2. I thought this was the issue, and there could still be something going on with the OS, but this morning I solved this issue with closing browser tabs in Firefox while Pandora was running. After closing about 5 tabs out of 30+ it cleared up. I have 32GB of memory but by all appearances this does not seem to be enough to cache all of these browser pages and run Pandora smoothly. When using Firefox in Windows 10, I did not have as many tabs open. Hope this info helps others. Good luck. ... View more

I have the same issue and have had this issue for well over 1.5 years now. Sometimes it will fix itself after a few minutes. Sometimes pausing it and then restarting it will fix it. Days like today though, it continues to keep going. I use Firefox as well, but have tested it on Chrome and have the same problem. This is a 'desktop-only' issue in my experience. ... View more