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  • This is the first time Pandora has looked good since they changed to that Facebook look in 2011.

  • i like Pandora. i like the random play of multiple GENRE stations – all playing randomly. Spotify does not offer this. also – Spotify was using 10X the mobile data that Pandora was despite same quality settings.

    • Bitrates on Spotify are 96 / 160 / 320 while Pandora offers 64 / 192. Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis while Pandora uses AAC+, which is slightly more efficient. So I imagine the combo of the smaller bitrate + the more efficient codec is giving the results you see.

      • thanks for the reply. also Spotify had crazy “Background Data” usage too! never had that problem with Pandora.

        • It’s been a while since I’ve used Spotify, but is it possible it’s saving playlists / etc to your device? If not it’s really strange that it would be using a lot of data when not running.

          • no since i don’t/can’t save playlists – i was just using the FREE version. there are other complaints on the web about this.

  • did they stop hiding quit in the menu above the now playing screen? That was such a poor decision it’s maddening, its faster for me to force exit the application then it is to navigate up to the quit option.

    • agreed. no it’s still hidden. i would like to see a fixed “Quit” button on the top every screen.

  • I just wish the music wasn’t so repetitive. Haven’t used in a while, because of All Access. But would be good to revisit.

  • Looking forward to it. I got tired of accidentially “thumbs downing” a song and then having to go back and “thumbs up” it b/c I couldn’t simply “unthumb” it. Wow that sounds weird to say.

  • Tried spotify and Google play music paid,
    but I keep coming back to Pandora.. idk

    The simple controls are easy to navigate in the car.
    You can shuffle ALL tracks.

    Why cant spotify and play music do this?

    • One of the few cons of 5.0. :/ The much improved battery stats blows that con out of the water though.

  • I was using this update in like August or September, someone on XDA had it.

  • I don’t get why, no matter how many times they update their apps, Pandora insist on maintaining a really hideous interface for their Now Playing screen. Those icons for play, skip, thumbs plus the layout is all just so gross and low-budget.

    • Not a chance. Pandora caters to iOS design guidelines and then just ports the whole thing over to Android.

      • The previous design was a fairly solid Holo design – and very different from the iOS version.

  • F@#$ Pandora. They refuse to pay royalties to half the music I listen to (pre-1972) and barely pay royalties to the musicians that they do.

  • I’m liking this, almost “unification,” of app designs that’s incorporating Material Design and iOS 8 standards, makes for some really beautiful app interfaces.

  • Did they add the notification controls? It’s been int he code for a while and I used exposed to enable it, but that doesn’t work in 5.0 currently.

    • I’ve got Verzion 5.4 on my Moto X and i see Notifications in those settings. Email and mobile check boxes. Glad too, I hated to turn it off in the Android App Settings. I still wanted to see the songs being played, just not the crap “new songs have been added” blah blah blah.

    • It works in 5.0 for me – 2014 Moto X with Verizon. I’m seeing the album cover on the left, Track/Artist/Station with an “x” to close, and the thumbs down/up play/pause skip buttons.

      And this is not with the newer pandora update

          • That’s weird, I almost want to say they were there before, too. :/

            I don’t think the notification controls show up until a song is actually playing, but it’s letting me play/pause/skip from the notification shade just fine.

          • I do remember it working before, maybe on my GNexus, I’ll have to dig that out.
            Maybe it’s enabled per device or something…

          • it’s been awhile, but I finally got the update to the newer Pandora interface… and now I don’t have notification controls 🙁
            So I have no idea why they worked before, but if I can find a way to enable them I’ll let you know.

          • well that was quick – just had to re-allow notifications in the app info screen from app settings. For some reason the box unchecked itself.

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