Is there any way to tell Pandora not to play any Christmas songs?
I’ve got a feeling that clicking Don’t like on every Christmas song will not only not work, it’ll get Pandora really confused.
I’m not sure. But I’d like to know if it’s possible.
It would also be nice if I could filter out live versions of songs.
I find clicking on don’t like for a bunch of songs works, unless as for in your example you made the channel by picking as a key word Christmas. Picking why are you even playing that works good too. It’s phrased something like that.
Do you have a Christmas station that you might have selected in QuickMix?
Well, I’ll give it a try, even though there’s no mention of Christmas when I click why this song. Also nothing about Christmas in the station description… just trying to train an up-tempo baroque thing by starting with Vivaldi, Praetorius, and Bach.
Pandora desperately needs a function that lets you explain why you didn’t like a song. My example is that I hate hate hate growly vocals in my metal, but I’m convinced that Pandora is confused about why I keep clicking the thumbs down. For example, it periodically gives me more growly vocals even after a months of training.
As for suggestions on the OP: Sometimes I’ve had luck by restarting a station with different seeds. For example, if I used artist names to start the first station, I’ll try restarting it by using albums or even specific songs as the seed. If I pick just the right songs, the training process goes much more smoothly.
This must be the reason. I get no Christmas music at all.
Yes, indeed. or at least, do the why this song? as a checklist, so I can un-check things like “piano” and “romantic era.” Pandora would then be more likely to get the hints that:
- while I like some classical music,
- skip the effing “dinner music” and get me something like Vivaldi’s summer.
I’ll take a look. I set up my Pandora account four years ago and haven’t been back (and am starting to understand why). Who knows about those settings at this point.
I find it annoying that they don’t play your seed song first either.
They definitely have a inadequate refinement process. I found it really annoying that I can’t lock out explicit content. Regular songs are playing and all of a sudden an extremely filthy one shows up.
Funny, I had the opposite problem when I tried to set up a Christmas station last year. In the end I got it pretty well tuned, but I would still occasionally get a random non-Christmas Bing Crosby or Nat King Cole song in there.
My Christmas station is trained to play pretty much only acoustic stuff. Though that selection seems limited.
I do too, but the reason they don’t is because people would just start station after station to use Pandora like a jukebox. They want to force you to listen to other music you might not have known about (and then go buy it).
That is something that you can fix.
Click Account. Under the Account tab, there’s an explicit content filter. Click the edit link to change your settings.
I’ll look at that. Thanks
Ditto. And the guy who sits next to me too.
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The other thing that is really getting on my nerves is that og-awful Target Ad.
Every time I hear that idiotic woman come near creaming her jeans over “more meat and veggies, more room for shoes(!!!), MORE WAYS TO TRY MAKE-UP!!!”, I think it shortens my life expectancy by two full minutes. Nobody gets this orgasmic over a discount store, lady.
And Target must have really shelled out for this, because it’s every second ad.
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Pandora has ads? 
I have never heard a single ad on Pandora. I don’t use it that much, but I’ve been listening to it for the past 4 hours or so tonight… and not a single ad.
Bartman, I think whether you get ads or not depends on whether you are a paid subscriber.
I would consider adding yet another “nominal” fee to never hear that Target ad again.
But I’d volunteer my services to Pandora at no charge if it would help their artificial intelligence understand that Bach is as much like Beethoven as Lynyrd Skynyrd is like Led Zeppelin. None of the above are country or hip-hop, but that is where any similarity ends.
I don’t recall ever getting a Target ad, but it seems like almost all of my ads are for the “Hebrew home at Riverdale” (a retirement community in Bronx, NY).
It seems that the ads are targeted (no pun intended!) much like the music is. I don’t know whether I’m getting those ads because I"m located in the NYC area, or because my music tastes are old-fashioned, but apparently they are being some sort of selective.