More like "let's protect ourselves from the FCC, Apple haters and the State Department.
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Beats 1 Worldwide 24/7 Live Radio With Zane Lowe Now Available
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It's a heck of a lot more bandwidth they'd have to cover to add a studio cam. I really don't think there's much point to it.
I'm loving it. Only just tuned in 20 mins ago and Julie is on. There's hardly any talking - not sure what the fuss is about. I love a bit of banter. I can imagine the urban London scene isn't going to appeal to a lot of American listeners though.
Oh. So all that music you didn't listen to, and likely haven't heard a lot of, is garbage. OK.
They said it was their world featured song or something like that so for today it would be played more often.
When did I say I never listened to those songs? I've heard most of them. Just not on Beats 1. I don't like them and if this is all the music B1 plays, I won't be listening.
I keep forgetting I'm the only one with an iPhone on wifi only. DATA, That might be the reason.
FCC has no jurisdiction over this. It's not broadcast over the airwaves. They could play George Carlin's 7 dirty words on a constant loop and the FCC can't do a thing. Not even sure where the State Department comes into play.
I just tried it on the current song playing and popped up with a message that said 'Your First Love' and said it would make recommendations based on this selection.
THANKS! It was Shamir. I added the song to my music(after a confusing iCloud confirmation), saved it for later and went back to listening to Beats one.
Shame we have to compile the list ourselves. What a headache.
Glad you found it. Quite a good song actually! And yes, it's annoying but hopefully this is added soon.
Yes, they could have played The Best of Lenny Bruce and they would have not felt with any decency fines.
I am talking wider FCC administration beyond terstrial broadcast regulations. Streaming on the Internet does cover FCC and State Department jurisdiction as it is distributed interntionally.
There is a very good backstory over those fighting Internet censorship from it's inception. Even IBM in the 70's tried to regulate it.
I compiled all the tracks much earlier in the thread here. Though Apple has since made available a playable list.
I was worried about this station that it would be awful mainstream pop. Instead, it's good pop. I've listened all day and I'm very pleased. I haven't heard any Pitbul, Rihanna, or Maroon 5. If you don't like pop/electronic/hiphip, you won't like this. IMO, People that eschew an entire genre outright are ignorant. Rock has embarrassing acts like Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, and Seether, but I don't hold it against the entire genre.
I'm really enjoying Beats 1 tbh, I was quite sceptical to begin with, but the whole idea of it is quite exciting. The fact we've gone to having a new Music app now with almost the entire iTunes library on it and even our own Apple radio station, it just seems like a massive step in the right direction for a company who has music in its DNA.
Overall I think the app is a solid effort for a day one , 100 country launch new app. People need to remember Spotify carefully controlled it's roll out over years to various countries.
There are clear improvements that do need to be made to really gold plate the service.
Coming from Spotify the loss of social integration is a big blow. Yes Connect is cool but I can no longer follow friends playlists, make collaborative playlists, or see what my friend is listening to right now. Hopefully this will be obvious to the Apple Devs and the Connect element will grow over these coming months. (We already have Facebook/Twitter integration at OS level)
Inability to GO TO ARTIST or GO TO ALBUM when a song from an album stored in your music library is playing.
Inability to create a playlist from an album
Just a few gripes, I am loving beats1 though, fantastic launch! We are connected!
There are clear improvements that do need to be made to really gold plate the service.
Coming from Spotify the loss of social integration is a big blow. Yes Connect is cool but I can no longer follow friends playlists, make collaborative playlists, or see what my friend is listening to right now. Hopefully this will be obvious to the Apple Devs and the Connect element will grow over these coming months. (We already have Facebook/Twitter integration at OS level)
Inability to GO TO ARTIST or GO TO ALBUM when a song from an album stored in your music library is playing.
Inability to create a playlist from an album
Just a few gripes, I am loving beats1 though, fantastic launch! We are connected!
Absolutely. It's very much like a midway point between Radio 1 and 6music on the BBC. Eclectic, fresh, not too experimental.
Yeah I was confused when I saw his artist profile. Wasn't sure if he was a DJ with a female featuring.