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iTunes Radio to Debut in September with Multiple High-Profile Advertising Partners
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Hopefully it gets better and what were hearing now is just a bare bones beta I tried listening to a few stations and they are identical everytime I start playing them it's the same playlist again.
This. Maybe someone can answer my question here, but what will happen to all the radio stations currently on iTunes that can be accessed for free? Will they still be around - the "Radio" tab on iTunes could somehow be split between the old and "new" iTunes Radio - or is Apple planning on completely replacing what they already have?
It's customized vs. non-customized....
Similar to you with or without a remote control. You can either sit at your TV all night watching ABC, and taking in all of ABC's TV programming, or have a remote control and CHOOSE what you watch on TV, and change channels to shows you're more interested in.
I think both will still exist, it's just like in the 1970s, you'd turn the channel to a station, set the bunny ears to tune that station in, remove the static to an acceptable level, and watch the same channel all night. You can STILL do that today. But you have the OPTION of flipping through channels as well.
Am I the only one that think an ad every 15 min is too much? Seems far more frequent than what slacker or pandora delivers.
It isn't free. The price you pay is that you spend some of your time listening to advertisements that are paying for the bandwidth you use.
I just wish I had an alternative payment other than match to avoid ads. I'm unable to get match because I have too large of a libriary. I know I can create a new library and split up my music to get match but I don't want it to be that much trouble. Oh well...
What should I have said? "steal paid streaming?" If it's stolen, then it isn't paid, either.
Wow man. Get a life.
Quite a competitor to Google Music and Spotify here! You neither get to pick what's playing AND you get obnoxious ads. Sounds like entire evenings filled with fun!
Seriously though, the iTunes Radio service is paying a too high price for being free. This is the point when it's more attractive to pay ten bucks a month and get none of this rubbish, and complete freedom of choice on what to play.
For being Apple and often not worrying too much about demanding payments, this is such a weird choice of business model. Imagine paying for an iTunes Unlimited service instead. Play everything from the entire iTunes catalog for $10/month. That's where the competition is today, Apple.
iTunes Radio is unfortunately 2004 rather than 2014.
How is it unusable? Like I said I use match alot and I haven't had any issues so I'm surious what issues you have encountered.
IMO it depends on how long the ad is every 15 minutes. Is it a 5 second spot? Or is it a minute long infomercial?
My guess is it's going to be that sweet spot of being just annoying enough to make you buy iMatch.