Lucia's dashboard

Hi Zangle -

Interesting. You'll want to contact support@pandora.com so our tech support team can troubleshoot with you. They'll get back to you quickly, and work over the weekend. I hope they can help!

Thanks for asking; we want you to be able to listen to Pandora on your iPhone hassle-free!

- Lucia
(community mananger)

UPDATE!

You've no doubt figure out by now that you can edit all of your Pandora stations right there in the iPhone Pandora app.

Have fun!

:) Lucia

If you don't like listening to live music on Pandora:

First, make sure none of the inputs or thumbs ups on your station say (Live) after the song name.
Next, thumbs down any live songs you get.
Pandora will get the idea that you don't want live music on that station.
(though there isn't a way to completely ban live music from all your stations.)

You can review and edit your station by clicking on the small triangle next to the station name in the left-hand station menu, and then choosing "edit this station".

From there you can check out the artists/songs you've added to the station as seeds and review the songs you marked as thumbs up and down.

Putting a check mark in the box next to one of these, and then clicking on "remove checked" will set the feedback for it back to neutral.

(So the first thing to do is go make sure there's no thumbs ups for (Live) songs on your station, and you find any, delete them!)

Look here (http://blog.pandora.com/faq/index.htm...) for more info on creating and tuning Pandora stations.

I hope that helps!

Oh, also: feel free to seed your station with a studio version of a song you like, and then if you hear the live version, give it a thumbs down. That way you're guaranteed to hear the studio version, but will never have to hear the live version on that station.

:) Lucia

http://twitter.com/pandora_radio

Yay, that's exciting, Chris! Good luck on your training.
With weight loss, slow and steady wins the race, for sure. Not sure how well that tactic works in a foot race though. ;)

I hope you can find lots of ways to stay inspired!

Best of luck,
Lucia
Pandora

That's a fantastic question, Chris. I keep meaning to write a Pandora blog post on this subject...

Here's my advice.

If you're trying for a fairly upbeat station, with high beats per minute, try making stations based on a number of individual songs that exemplify the tempo you want.
[See here (http://blog.pandora.com/faq/index.htm...) for more info on creating and tuning Pandora stations.]

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Here's my exercise station, in case you might like it:
http://is.gd/38pe

I also asked my co-workers their advice:

Here's a station suggestion, from a co-worker who's a musician and a DJ:
http://pandora.com/stations/c11720ff2...

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Another co-worker, also a musician and a professional DJ, adds these 2 stations to the mix. He makes amazing stations *and* he's a marathon runner, so I'd try his out:

He says, "this is good running station, seeded with jungle & drum & bass.
160-170 bpm, pretty much."

http://www.pandora.com/stations/4bf2e...

"this is good too. it's house though, 120-130 bpm"

http://www.pandora.com/stations/4a855...

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And one last co-worker, an electronica musician, has this to say:
"160-170 - that'd be breakbeat or drum & bass in the electronica world. Maybe try these artists:
deekline & wizard
DJ Icey
Crystal Method
Chemical Brothers"

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Here's a few stations I see our listeners use for exercising:

http://pandora.com/stations/29057c5b6...

http://pandora.com/stations/212699457...

http://pandora.com/stations/6e91cbc38...

http://pandora.com/stations/8a90fb45d...

http://pandora.com/stations/39cafe9ca...

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Also, here's a few stations Nike has set up on Pandora, in case you might like them:

Power Run:
http://is.gd/38qe

Inspirational Tracks:
http://is.gd/38qb

Work Out Jams:
http://is.gd/38q8

The Long Haul:
http://is.gd/38pY

The Stairs:
http://is.gd/38pL

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One last thing: here's a search for "Exercise" stations in Pandora's Backstage:
http://pandora.com/backstage?type=sta...

And a "Workout" search:
http://pandora.com/backstage?type=sta...

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I hope all that helps, and that I didn't overwhelm you!

Happy exercising!

Cheerio,
Lucia

@pandora_radio on twitter

With Pandora app update 1.2, this has changed!!

You can now access all of your bookmarks from within the Pandora iPhone app.

Have fun!

:) Lucia

Hey Bobby!

Our keyboard shortcuts are as follows:

Play/Pause: spacebar
Skip Song: right-arrow key

"Thumbs Up" - I like this song: plus key
"Thumbs Down" - I don't like this song: minus key

Increase Volume: up-arrow key
Decrease Volume: down-arrow key
Maximum Volume: shift key and up-arrow key combination
Mute Volume: shift key and down-arrow key combination

Be sure to have the Pandora music player "active" in order to use these shortcuts. This means that you need to click the player once before the keyboard shortcuts work. If you click outside the player on the page, you'll have to click back in the player again to use the shortcuts.

Thanks!
Lucia

Good question!

Initially you may have to visit www.pandora.com on a computer to see your bookmarks. (From the Pandora home screen, just click the 'Your Profile' button.)

However, if you make a note of this URL, and bookmark it on your iPhone's web browser, you can visit that page at any time directly on your iPhone.

I hope that helps!

:) Lucia

Hi Nick -

Thanks for the question! We are definitely working on getting Pandora onto more mobile devices all the time. We don't have concrete Android plans at the moment, but who knows? Things change fast around here. :)

I'll share your "vote" with the engineering team!

Thanks,
Lucia, from Pandora

Thanks so much Jamie and Matt, for your feedback and suggestions.

Please don't worry; we've been in negotiations regarding royalty rates for over a year, and we plan to continue working towards a fruitful solution to the stand-off.

Do keep listening, and I promise we'll let you know if / when there's anything you can do to help.

We're not going down without a battle, and we'll do whatever is needed to keep Pandora alive and kicking.

Thanks so much for supporting us; we're literally nothing without our listeners.

:)
Best,
Lucia, from Pandora

p.s. sorry it took me a bit to get back to you....I was off last week.

Thanks so much for your kind and supportive missive, Dave!
It's great to have listeners like you.

Never fear, we're up for the ongoing royalty battle, and we're doing everything we can to encourage an ongoing and fruitful negotiation process.
We'll let you know if there's anything our listeners can do to help, but in the meantime, our spirits are buoyed by your support!

Best,
Lucia @ Pandora

(sorry it took me a bit to get back to you...I was out last week.)