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How to Make an Awesome Playlist on Pandora

Pandora is an excellent way to access a variety of music. With the platform, you can tailor stations to your liking. In fact, Pandora allows you to make a perfect radio station that suits your interests. Plus, you can allow Pandora to play other bands you might like that are similar to your interests. Here are a few ways you can get the optimal experience from Pandora.

Variety is the Spice of Life
Stations can become awfully monotonous if you only have one genre of music rotating. This repetitiveness is going to make you get bored of the station very quickly. Thus, adding different genres will allow the Pandora station to diversify the style of your music. If you do not want Pandora to mix up your music genres, then you can uncheck the “add variety” button in settings.

Be Selective with the Songs You Like
When you upvote every single song you like, then Pandora will play songs that are related to those genres. This can get out of hand, as the range of genres will become so broad that your station won’t be unique anymore. While it is important to diversify your playlist, making it too heterogeneous is just as bad. Finding a happy medium is imperative to having a solid station.

Skip Responsibly
You are only allowed six skips per hour. Don’t abuse this privilege, or you will be stuck listening to awful songs. Allocate these skips throughout the hour so you can skip the songs you absolutely can’t stand. Only allowing yourself one skip per ten minutes will allow you to efficiently use your skips.

I’m Tired of This Track
There’s always that one song that radio stations play over and over again, all day. Pandora has a feature called “I’m Tired of This Track” that allows you to temporarily remove a song from the station. To access this feature, hold your mouse over the album cover presented on the station. There should be an up arrow that appears. Next, there should be an option called “I’m Tired of This Track.” Clicking this will tell Pandora to hold off on playing the song for a while.

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