“Premium users can now play their favorite songs, albums and playlists with simple Alexa voice commands, providing for the ultimate hands-free music experience this holiday season. Whether you’re cleaning the house to impress your in-laws, carving a Thanksgiving turkey, or opening presents with the kids, you can trust Pandora to seamlessly deliver your personal holiday soundtrack when you need it the most.” Pandora said in a statement on their website.
The downside to this is we found in our office that we are now struggling to get Pandora to play our custom stations form our standard Pandora membership. We have been able to get our custom stations to play through our Alexa powered devices by launching them from the Amazon Alexa app on iOS and Android. In the past, we could ask Alexa to play our Christmas station on Pandora and our custom Christmas station would play. Now we get a generic Christmas station from Pandora. Hopefully, Pandora addresses that issue shortly.
With Pandora Premium, enjoy personalized radio with on-demand listening. Here are a few of the benefits offered with Pandora Premium:
- Try Pandora On-Demand Premium Free for Three Months
- On-demand and ad-free, unlimited music
- Full control over music choice
- Search and play any song
- Create and share playlists
- Download music for offline listening
- Unlimited skips and replays
Here are some of the commands you can now use with Pandora Premium on Alexa:
- “Alexa, play Pandora”
- “Alexa, play Christmas music”
- “Alexa, play Home for the Holidays”
- “Alexa, play ‘When I Fall in Love’ by Michael Buble”
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