Only Pandora Premium subscribers can receive 192kbps on their iOS and Android devices. Most home-listening devices get 128kbps - whether the account is free or paid.

If you're already a Pandora Plus or Pandora Premium subscriber and are encountering advertisements, there are a few common explanations: Your subscription expired. As a Pandora Plus subscriber, you've triggered a Pandora Premium Session. As a Plus or Premium subscriber, you have Artist and Discovery Messages turned on.

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• Instant, streaming access to your favorite music.
• Easy-to-use user interface includes access to artist bios.
• Skip and rate songs for personalized music.
• Create new stations directly from your device.
• With Pandora Plus enjoy ad-free stations, unlimited skips and replays, and higher quality audio.

Pandora Premium Subscribers have 3 different audio quality options: Low: 32 kbps AAC+ Standard: 64 kbps AAC+ High: 192 kbps mp3.

Pandora on the Web plays 64k AAC+ for free listeners and 192kbps for Pandora Plus and Pandora Premium subscribers. Follow the instructions below to change your audio quality settings: Click the icon (initial or picture) in the upper right corner.

In essence, this means that Spotify Premium's music contains more audio data points, and therefore more detail to its sound. Spotify Premium does have higher quality than Free Spotify, but it doesn't have a high resolution or “HiFi” setting.

Go to myaccount.google.com and select Manage your data & personalization > Go to ad settings. Toggle Ad personalization to On, or select Turn Off next to ads you want to mute.

“TV advertisers have always known that ad breaks are when people go to the bathroom, to the kitchen, or are likely to move around,” explained Dave Morgan, CEO and founder of TV advertising platform Simulmedia. “Being able to make sure that your audio pops is a way to make sure that you're memorable.”

Easily cast Pandora to your TV Simply tap the Cast button from the Pandora app to hear your music on the TV. Play, skip, search and browse, right from your phone. Make calls or use your phone for other things– without disrupting what's playing.

From the web, visit www.pandora.com/[brand of device] and enter the activation code there (e.g. www.pandora.com/samsung). Or, from a mobile device, open the Pandora app and go to Settings, then tap Device Activation and enter the code.

Does Spotify or Pandora offer better streaming quality? Unfortunately, neither Spotify Premium nor Pandora Premium offer any high quality streaming options, though Spotify announced Spotify HiFi, which would offer streaming in lossless CD-quality, back in 2021 and we haven't heard an update since then.

Spotify has better sound quality. In fact Pandora has the worst sound quality of any other streaming music service. 192 bit rate MP3 in 2023, unless I'm using the TV app on a device in then it is down converted to 128 MP3.