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Anyone else fed up with iTunes Radio?
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you are crazy if you thought itunes radio was going to be better than pandora
itunes radio is garbage
itunes radio is garbage
Can you further elaborate? Just wondering what pandora does so much differently? Honest question.
I like the free previews, otherwise the ads that repeat are horribly annoying (Pandora did this too).
So I guess all and all it is basically the same experience
So I guess all and all it is basically the same experience
The best streaming music service in my opinion is Samsung's Milk Music. Slacker is ON POINT with their library.
everything lol
plus i'm jailbreaked so i have the pandora downloader which lets me save songs from pandora, gets rid of the limited skips & also gives me the option of using pandora one for free
Everything? Not really a good answer... oh and your illegally forcing pandora to giving free unlimited service, no wonder it's better.
good enough for me. like i care, there's more serious crime happening out there
ps even the free version is better than itunes radio
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it works great & has a few options to turn on/off as well
I have fairly good luck with it but I have also been using iTunes for a while and I have iTunes Match. I can't help but wonder if all that data might be helping.
But even then yes the system needs work. Apple has a lot of sources for data like iTunes Match, Genius, purchases, reviews. it doesn't seem like they have one overall system to have better data. Not to mention the similar artists data and system they likely got when they bought Lala (which never failed me in the year I was a member).
that and some better cataloging data (especially genre data) would improve everything. And not just with Music. They could use it for discovery in all stores.
I'm not fed up with it I use it every day. (Using it as I type this post). But it does piss my off Eminem radio doesn't play enough of Eminem's songs.
The iTunes Radio is missing a lot of dynamics. In my opinion they are better off learning from Pandora and SiruisXM when it comes to having radio stations like 90's, 80's, etc.
I am sure like anything else, it will improve.
I am sure like anything else, it will improve.
Really? My Eminem station plays a lot of Eminem songs, it actually annoys me cause I have most of the songs that play lol
It takes me about half an hour to get an Eminem song! And every time I get one i make sure it is set to play more like this and then I changed it to play verity and that didn't help it just gave me different songs not by eminem
The first song that plays is by Eminem then the next couple of songs he's either featured on or are other artists associated with Eminem such as 50 Cent, D-12 or Dr. Dre then it'll play another Eminem song, that's how it works for me lol
Occasionally it'll play random songs by random artists but I usually like them, my other stations don't work like this though and instead will play a lot of songs I don't like.
I think I've figured out how to get iTunes Radio to play a good selection of songs.
If you go into iTunes Radio on your computer you can manually edit your stations as far as songs and artists that you want to 'play more like this'. After doing this I've gotten some impressive results with my stations comparable to what I get in Pandora. It's just sad that I had to go in there and do all that work myself when Pandora just plays a great selection with minimal effort.
If you go into iTunes Radio on your computer you can manually edit your stations as far as songs and artists that you want to 'play more like this'. After doing this I've gotten some impressive results with my stations comparable to what I get in Pandora. It's just sad that I had to go in there and do all that work myself when Pandora just plays a great selection with minimal effort.