1. Station Edits
The station you are listening to appears larger, and you can see the small words 'Station Options' present. You can see this in the red circle on the left. 'Add variety to this station' is new'ish. You've always been able to seed more music into your station, but this is more clear for the less experienced user.
2. Guide Us
If you look at the circle on the right, you see the thumb up, and thumb down buttons. These normally used to appear when you hovered over the album, which worked fine, unless you wanted to quickly thumb songs, which wasn't possible because you have to wait a few seconds.
There was a large button in the bottom right which said 'Guide us'. When you clicked it, a large dialog box appeared, which took up half the screen, and had some redundant features, since the thumb up and down buttons were present here as well. One of the nice buttons is the snooze button, which allows you to prevent a song from playing on any of your stations for a month. Prior, you could only set this option for a currently playing song, but now that there is the menu button for each song, this has been fixed.
Good work Pandora, and good luck staying afloat. I'll probably discuss this in a later post, but if you are forced to switch over to a subscription-based system, I will pay for it, and stick with you (as long as I can still scrobble my tracks to Last.fm). If you could get to my two suggestions, that would be great as well.
Godspeed.
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