Use of Pianobar for Pandora is limited at best and isn’t even supported by the preferred HA installation or using HAOS. It is about time HA gets with the times and updates this Legacy Integration!
Hard to conceptualize “get with the times” and “Pandora” in the same breath 
Snarky comments aside, it does look like there is some movement for Pandora support in Music Assistant. This might be something to watch @DanGarion
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I’ve been one of those commenting on that thread! 
I’ve tried to set up pianobar a few times in the past but never was able to make use of it. Now I can’t since I run HAOS so until there is another solution I’m stuck. I’ve used Pandora for well over 10 years I’ve TRIED multiple times to move to another service but unfortunately, nothing else has the main Pandora feature I feel is the most important thing to have, which is the curated stations.
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They do, might not be as good as pandora but they all have stations that you can create and it will play similar music. I’ve never used pandora, I’ve used IHeart and Spotify, and Amazon, all 3 have this.
But where? All I have ever found are playlists, which are just lists of music I like. I’ve never located a way to create a station that plays music I like (which I can thumbs up/down).
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Just search for an artist, one of the options found will be “< the artist > Station”, it will start with a song from that artist then introduce similar ones beyond that. As you listen you can thumb up or down things and that list/station will remain in your recently played.
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In Spotify, if you click on the more options (ellipses) menu on any Artist or Song you can go to a “radio station” inspired by that selection. It works pretty well im my opinion, and I was a long time Pandora user many moons ago.
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Out of pure curiosity @DanGarion would you mind sharing a bit more about your usecase? I’m curious the role Home Assitant plays in your setup and how you are using automations with your radio stations and/or speaker endpoints.
I’m going to try and give Spotify Premium another honest run through again for 2 months (along with the rest of the family) to see if it can fit our needs.
@DanGarion
If giving Spotify a try on Home Assistant, you might check out the SpotifyPlus Card.
Hope it helps!
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I was the OP for that referenced thread about supporting Pandora. I find Pandora spectacularly good at creating curated stations that give me the type of music I want to hear at any given time. I have no patience to create my own play lists.
But I will indeed have to check out one or more of the mentioned alternatives that are already supported in HA / MA. If they are capable of tailoring my stations in a very similar manner, that’s certainly a lot simpler than creating a whole new integration.
Thanks for the discussion!
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