First, I did go through all of your troubleshooting steps, just as I have done over and over and over. As to the idea of creating a new playlist each time, then why not use Apple or Spotify and just quit spending the money on Pandora? The reason I have spent money on Pandora for at least ten years, maybe much longer, is that I wanted what you were selling: The ability to create my own interesting radio station based on telling Pandora a few songs or albums or artists that I wanted to use to develop a sound world. And I didn’t just want to develop one, I wanted to develop an unlimited number if stations, and give them their own individual songs to use. What I don’t want is for your system to decide that is I liked one song from another station that I would want it to carry over prior likes to the new station. The most absurd one yet is that for some reason, you took a song I liked called “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” by the Animals from a rock station I developed around The Animals and Pink Floyd, and placed the song in a playlist dedicated to 1950’s easy listening stars like Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé. I do not understand why this is so difficult for you and your people to understand. ... View more

You are still missing the point. New stations are using seeds and thumbs from other stations to come up with songs. That means that the more stations I develop with subtle differences (to you, not to me), the more the whole mess gets homogenized until it is one big regression towards a restrictive mean that approximates my interests. Then, the incessant track repetition RUINS any enjoyment of my original station idea. ... View more

This presumes I want to take a more active role in the management off my station. If I wanted to pick song by song, I could just sit at my desk and do so. I want your algorithm to do the heavy lifting whilst I relax and enjoy, That's the primary reason I spend the money and the YEARS of my precious time trying to get this straight. I absolutely do not want to have to stop what I am doing, find out what device I am using to get Pandora distributed, catch the song before it goes off, remember the procedure, and accomplish it. Seems like a lot to ask of a paying customer. There should be a better way. I find  Crowd Faves to be useless and the Discovery and Deep Cuts stray too far away from what I loved about my stations.  Removing Thumbs Up likewise  destroys the work I have done to create music I love. I tried  selecting additional artist and/or song seeds to the point I ended up with some with 50 seeds and 100 thumbs. I still hear the same songs coming back to haunt me. I know you say your system doesn't roll seeds from one station to another, but mine seem to go nbecause the same songs appear in multiple stations.  ... View more

I have a station I call Peace Piece. It is started from a Bill Evans tune by that name. It has 25 songs with Thumbs Up. Those 25 songs play multiple times per day, to the point that songs I once love(d) are now becoming annoying. I didn't start creating stations because I wanted Pandora to destroy the affection I have for pieces, I did it so your normally brilliant algorithm would help me find new, wonderful music.  For example, one of the songs with a thumbs up is Eric Reed doing "Flamenco Sketches." I have had this station on for the past four hours and it has played this tune four times, in one instance it played twice within 25 minutes.   Help, please. ... View more