Right, but the tone of your post was pejorative rather than embracing other people's musical tastes not included on Beats 1. Anyway, this horse is beaten to death so I'm going to stop kicking it.
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Beats 1 is 'the Biggest Radio Station in the World', Says Apple Music
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Right, but the tone of your post was pejorative rather than embracing other people's musical tastes not included on Beats 1. Anyway, this horse is beaten to death so I'm going to stop kicking it.
I think what people don't understand, is that Apple offers a lot of "radio stations" hitting different music genres, with Beats 1 addressing just one (and it's not really a single "one"), and no doubt curated to hit Apple's largest listening demographic. There are also "stations" for a lot of everything else from jazz to house.
If I want to listen to old Paul Butterfield, Psychonauts, Miles Davis, or Sneaker Pimps, Beats 1 is not the right "station."
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I love Apple Music.
I love Beats 1.
I love Drake.
But, to be fair, I'm also the target audience: Millennial, university grad, own my own business, diverse, inclusive, multi-cultural, open to new and different things.
Anyway, most of you aren't the target demo, so it makes sense that ya'll don't know who Drake is or think Beats 1 is rubbish.
That's the beauty of it all. There's plenty available on Apple Music for you guys to listen to as well
Dude, you like Drake and chose Apple Music at some point. "Owning" a "production company" and being "multi-cultural" has nothing to do with it.
Honestly, and maybe it's just my generation, but we really enjoyed radio in the '50s and '60s. And into the '70s. Sure, the '50s was all payola, but it was great to listen to at 14. The '60s brought the big radio personalities, and the music got bigger too. My big event was the first time I heard "Like a Rolling Stone" on AM radio, all 6 minutes. In the '70s, the great FM radio was fantastic... until the labels were bought out by huge corporations and the stations started all playing off the same master list. I had a friend in radio at that point, and his whole apartment filled up with thousands of promotional albums. He was encyclopedic, and he had taste. All my tips about new artists came from him. Now, if we had radio that did that? I think that's worthwhile, but maybe youngers would rather have algorithms and/or the crowd take that function over. I think you can't beat a really informed music fan saying, "Hey, there's this new group, and they're fantastic!"
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I'd rather there be lots more than one station. Nothing beats a human picking and choosing. Even if you disagree with them once in a while.
There's still people like that in radio. There's not as many, but they're there. Locally there's a few of them, who are given a few hours a week on their respective stations to play what they want, outside of the regular playlists.
Now, that's what Beats 1 is supposed to do. They play their share of mainstream hits to keep listeners tuned in, but all the hosts are super-knowledgeable and throw in completely new music just like you said.
The problem you get in the MacRumors comments is that 95% of the people here are outside of their target audience, and can't see past their own noses. They think that they should be the target market for anything Apple produces, and can't understand why Apple would operate a station like this.
I'm obviously too old for this stuff, because the first thing I asked is "who the heck is Drake?"...
Perhaps better known for his earlier work as "Wheelchair Jimmy" from the Canadian teen drama "Degrassi: The Next Generation"
I have already given up.
Even Pandora can't do that now.
My CD collections will have to do that job.
You mean free radio doesn't have advantages of its own.
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On the iPhone app, I go to radio, scroll down, then under all genres, I see a Jazz listing.
In iTunes, I go to Radio, on the right are drop downs that say Music and all genres. I click all genres, and see an option for jazz.
The story has the headline:
"Apple May Launch Additional Beats Streaming Radio Station"
But reading it there isn't anything from anyone at Apple saying they are going to do that. In which case its a little disingenuous to have a go at them for not having done so yet.
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Fair enough - although I'd say that I wouldn't describe Beats 1 as whitewashed - there is a huge amount of diversity on there. If people don't like rap (heck, I'm not really into rap), then don't listen to the shows that are more rap orientated. Works for me.