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Beats 1 Worldwide 24/7 Live Radio With Zane Lowe Now Available
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The song was Gosh, the album is In Colour
Following the launch of Apple Music alongside iOS 8.4, Apple's Beats 1 radio station led by Zane Lowe has begun broadcasting. Available in more than 100 countries, Beats 1 is a 24/7 radio station that will play music around the clock with live DJs and guests.
The inaugural song played on Beats 1 radio right when it kicked off at 9:00 a.m. was Spring King's "City," which was followed by Beck's "Dreams" and Jamie xx's "In Color." Spring King was picked by Lowe as a great upcoming band from Manchester.
Beats 1 features several shows by various on-air personalities, and a full lineup of what's going to be on can be found at the Beats 1 website, which forwards to Apple's new Tumblr page for Apple Music and Beats 1. The Tumblr page has a complete schedule that displays what's playing, and it adjusts to your time zone based on location.
Beats 1 will include exclusive interviews and news broadcasts, with the first interview taking place tomorrow with Eminem. According to Zane Low, today's focus is on the music, and several exclusive songs will be played over the course of the day.
Apple Music is available now and is free for all listeners for the first three months. Following the trial period, the service will cost $9.99 per month for individuals or $14.99 for families of up to 6.
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You can also choose to follow a certain artist and only their genre should be played by Zane. That's what I did. He was playing too much stuff I don't care for.
Well so far I'm LOVING Beats1... I've missed Zane on Radio 1 and it's nice to have him back with his enthusiasm and eclectic mix of music I love and stuff I've never heard of but I'm sure I will love soon... Spring King as the opening track?? I was not expecting that but I think it aptly demonstrates the commitment to the smaller lesser known artists.
It's a shame it's censored but also not massively surprising...
It's a shame it's censored but also not massively surprising...
Same here. I can't remember the last time I listened to the radio. My buddy who is a big Zane Lowe fan told me how awesome he is. I'm over an hour in and I'm throughly enjoying his DJ style. I'm already sold.
Without getting into the whole censorship debate, I think a reasonable view would be that its OK to play stuff uncensored later in the day, but less so earlier on. And Beats 1 runs into the problem that it will always be early somewhere in the world.
Exactly. He goes on and on about how much he loves the music but then talks all over it. He needs to show some respect for the music he's playing and let people hear the music uninterrupted.
I'm surprised how many people in my Twitter feed are peeing themselves over Beats 1 as if Apple reinvented radio. To me Beats 1 reminds me of BBC Radio without the local news/weather/traffic.
Its pretty simple, but incredibly catchy. The Glastonbury crowd were humming it at the end as though it was an old song, not one a mot of them had probably never heard before.
I was referring to Beats1 as being a pure radio station, which it effectively is.
If you want to listen to a specific artist/curator/genre, then Spotify, Rdio, Tidal and others already exist as an alternative to the Apple Music service.
Well for one, it doesn't have Fearne Cotton on it. Though I just read that she's quit Radio 1 so I suppose what you say is true.
Beats 1 requires iTunes 12.2 to run. OS X 10.10.4 didn't bring it. And it's not available for download yet, not by auto-update, neither at the iTunes website
Censored = huge fail. No one was ever going to subscribe for a lame music radio station anyway. This thing so far is OK at best. The white background is terrible. The UI is awful (why can't I create a playlist from Albums?!). Spotify is in no jeopardy of losing me as a customer for this so far.
I went into work early today so I'd be at my desk and ready to go for launch. It's a shame they didn't ship iTunes 12.2 
Just reading the comments.. it's a shame on the censorship issue. I've been a long time siriusxm sub. I *much* prefer uncensored stations. After something like 5 years free of censorship, I notice bleeped/muted/radio-edit tracks a lot more now. There was only one case where it was okay, the whip sound they used in "**** me like an animal". That was hilarious.
Just reading the comments.. it's a shame on the censorship issue. I've been a long time siriusxm sub. I *much* prefer uncensored stations. After something like 5 years free of censorship, I notice bleeped/muted/radio-edit tracks a lot more now. There was only one case where it was okay, the whip sound they used in "**** me like an animal". That was hilarious.
Found the streaming URL, but it needs a plugin that Apple isn't releasing (probably). http://itsliveradiobackup.apple.com/streams/hub02/session02/256k/prog.m3u8
Also, found some album art:
http://itsliveradio.apple.com//bb/images/b1/4287a2c4-930f-4c9b-88e7-f5e52b619f39.jpg
Also, found some album art:
http://itsliveradio.apple.com//bb/images/b1/4287a2c4-930f-4c9b-88e7-f5e52b619f39.jpg
Subscribe to a radio station? You realise it's free right?
