![]() I didn't have this band in my variety before this, and I just added the songs, not the band. Pandora has played related songs, songs from similar bands, and even played previously unplayed songs from the same albums as the songs I added.but I didn't add THOSE songs because I didn't like them.įor example, I recently added a lot of songs from Killing's Time album The Method. Since then, I still haven't heard any of the songs I added to my variety. So starting a few months ago, I decided to try to correct this by adding specific songs to my variety. However, I noticed there was still a large portion of songs from these bands that Pandora just never played, and thus, never gave me the opportunity to give them a thumbs up. As the years went by, I heard a majority of the songs these bands had. From when I started Pandora, up to until recently, I would just add bands to my station's variety to listen them. ![]() I've been using Pandora almost daily for several years now, got Pandora Plus a few years back, and there are just some things that don't make sense, to the point that I think things must be broken. That approach may work alright eventually (if I'm diligent with my thumbing), but I shouldn't have to go to all that effort to fix something that can, and should, be fixed on Pandora's end. I may like a single song from an artist (and would like that song to play once in a while) but may not necessarily like other songs from that artist. And yes, I know that I can remove all the seed songs and instead add the artists and then thumbs up those songs when they play. That's the standard response I've seen time and again on this board. Please 1) confirm that, yes, seed songs never play on Pandora radio, and 2) tell us what is being done to address this issue or, if it's truly intentional, why? As long as your algorithms don't pick seed songs any more often than other songs that fit the station profile, it's not going to be a playlist substitute. But hey, it doesn't have to be account based. It's especially aggravating that upgrading to a Premium account makes no difference. 800 plays is easily proof of that, especially considering that the station mostly repeats about 200 songs (another issue for another day). Seed songs are clearly being blocked on Pandora radio. A reasonable person would expect that a seed song would have just as much chance of being played as any other song that fits the station's profile. Yes, I understand that the powers that be don't want users to be able to game Pandora radio to work like a playlist, but this is ridiculous. Total number of times a seed song played on Pandora Premium: 0 ![]() Total number of times a seed song played on Pandora Plus: 0 I selected my "Cooley Street" station which has 16 seed songs. I tested both Pandora Plus and Pandora Premium. Seed songs never play on Pandora Radio even with a Premium account ![]()
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