Why can’t my Pandora station do certain things?

Our music licenses forbid hearing a song or artist in a predictable way.
Here are our primary licensing restrictions:

  • We cannot play a specific song or artist right away, or “on demand.”
  • We cannot play more than four songs credited to a particular artist name in a three-hour period. This is the maximum, so each artist may play even less often than that.
  • A Pandora station cannot play a playlist of only certain songs or artists: we must include a mix of similar songs and artists on each Pandora station.
  • You cannot rewind, or immediately replay, any song on Pandora.
  • You cannot download or cache music from Pandora. Pandora requires an active internet connection. If you’d like to hear the music Pandora plays for you offline, we make it easy to purchase the music you hear.
  • A Pandora station cannot provide unlimited song “skips.”