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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 5904700" data-attributes="member: 649">Understand that if you start a channel based on one or more bands instead of on specific songs, you may not get the matches you'd expect since specifying  band means the algorithm has to try to find things that are similar about the majority of a band's songs. Consider this:Band A has 10 albums with a total of 100 songs. Among those songs, 80 of them have characteristics that match Sound Set Red (a certain set of common characteristics) and the rest have other sounds.Band B has 10 albums with a total of 100 songs. Among those songs, 20 of them have characteristics that match Sound Set Red and the other 80 match Sound Set Blue.You start a channel with Band A and Pandora throws in some of the 20 Band B songs that have Sound Set Red characteristics because it's looking for songs that are similar to Sound Set Red.Then you start a channel with Band B and you don't end up hearing any Band A songs. Not surprising, since Band B has so few Sound Set Red songs. Instead you end up hearing Sound Set Blue songs, which may be somewhat similar to Sound Set Red, but not close enough to kick in many or even any Band A songs.If you instead started a new channel with the specific Band B Sound Set Red songs you heard on the first channel and not Band B in general, you'd hear Band A songs in the mix.</blockquote>