Pandora Radio

Pandora Radio is a premium, streaming content provider partner which offers “personalization” through the use of selectable “Thumbs Up” and “Thumbs Down” buttons. It also uses artist recommendation and related artists to further assist discovery of music and enjoyment of stations.

“Subscribers” who pay for their subscriptions do not hear any audio ads, while normal registered (free-account) users hear audio ads in between songs. For more information regarding Pandora Radio accounts, please visit www.pandora.com.

To use your Pandora account, the account information in the radio (refer to Account Info on page 30) must match your Pandora account information online.

Accessing Pandora Radio

Press SOURCE repeatedly to select Pandora Radio.

OR

Press or to highlight Pandora Radio in the Source menu and then press SELECT.

Press SELECT and use the displayed activation code to create your account online.

Press SELECT after done and follow the on-screen instruction to enter your login information.

Note that Pandora may not be available in all countries. "Sorry, Pandora is not available in this country." will be displayed in this case.

Listening to Pandora Radio

To select a station:

1.Press or to highlight a station genre and then press SELECT.

Some genres may contain sub-genres for selection.

2.While a station is highlighted, press SELECT. The selected station will start to play.

Logging in to Pandora Radio

At first attempt to login to Pandora with empty credentials on the unit, the following screen will be displayed:

Press or to select Yes if you have an existing account. The unit will then ask you to enter your account login information. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete entering your login information.

Press or to select No if you do not have an existing account. The following message will be displayed:

Press to pause or resume playback.

Audio ads cannot be skipped, thumbed up or down, bookmarked or tagged. "Not available for audio

ads" will be displayed when attempting any of these.

3. Press to skip to the next song.

Both free account and premium account limits to approximately 6 skips per hour per station while free account also limits to 12 skips per day. "Our music licenses limit the number of songs skipped per hour" will be shown when the hourly skip limit is reached.

To store the current station as a preset:

1.Select a station.

2.Press and hold 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 on top of the radio until a beep sound is heard to store the current station to that preset button.

To listen to a preset station, press 1-6.

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Acoustic Research ARIR201 user manual Accessing Pandora Radio, Listening to Pandora Radio, Logging in to Pandora Radio

ARIR201 specifications

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