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Music Assistant has support for personal radio stations from Pandora. This component is contributed and maintained by Gavin

Pandora provides personalized radio stations that play an endless stream of songs based on the user’s musical preferences.

NOTE

Both the free and paid subscription options are supported

Subscription FREEYes
Self-Hosted Local MediaNo
Media Types SupportedRadio
Recommendations SupportedNo
Lyrics SupportedNo
Radio ModeNo
Maximum Stream QualityLossy, MP3 (192kbps)
Login MethodPassword
  • In the configuration, enter the user name and password
  • Optionally select your music quality preference if you have a paid account
  • Click the save button.
  • Username and Password. Account credentials for your Pandora account
  • Audio quality. Select preference between standard (AAC 64kbps) and high quality (MP3 192kbps) audio. A paid account is required for high quality audio, free accounts will use standard quality audio despite this setting.
  • Take Over Stream. Request that Pandora disconnect any other devices that are streaming and instead allow streaming via MA (See Notes for more information)
  • Standard sync options are available
  • This source is limited to Radio Stations only and does not support search or station creation. This constraint is due to Pandora’s API structure
  • Users must continue to create stations on the official Pandora app/website, and those stations will then automatically appear in MA after a sync
  • Stream metadata is provided although occassionally there is missing album art
  • As with all radio stations in MA, tracks cannot be skipped
  • Pandora only supports streaming to one device at a time per account. This provider will automatically take over the stream when initially starting the stream but it will not automatically take over the stream if it receives a concurrent-streaming error from pandora at any point other than the initial start of playback. A button in the provider configuration can be used to issue a takeover request if needed.