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How many hours a day do you listen to iTunes Radio?

  • Less then 1 hour

    Votes: 38 20.9%
  • 1-3 hours

    Votes: 14 7.7%
  • 3-6 hours

    Votes: 8 4.4%
  • 6-9 hours

    Votes: 2 1.1%
  • 9-12 hours

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • All Day

    Votes: 5 2.7%
  • Never

    Votes: 115 63.2%

  • Total voters
    182
I've found myself listening to iTunes Radio far more than I expected.

Out of curiosity, how do the number of commercials compare between the two services? When I tried Pandora recently (but briefly), it seemed to have a lot more commercials than iTunes. iTunes never plays more than one at once, and seems to play only a few 30-second commercials per hour. Pandora was playing multiple commercials in a row when I was trying it. Anyone notice a difference?

(Obviously talking about the free version of both.)

Spotify is just like Pandora. 3 commercials in a row really interrupts the music flow. Paying $10/month is just too much for me. Hopefully if Apple offers a music service they 1) keep the costs reasonable, 2) not repeat songs
 
Never, here in Canada, right next door, we don't have it yet!


There's a way to work around it. I am also up North from the US and I got it working no problem. I prefer Spotify and Sirius XM by far myself.

Anyone know the audio quality of the stream of iTunes Radio?
 
How many hours a day do you listen to iTunes Radio?

Why can't this bug happen to me!

Now I'm going to smell my friends coffee at a participating McDonalds.


It's not a bug, contrary to me earlier statement. I found a thread a while ago where it said that if you paste this link into settings->wifi and tap on the i next to the network you are connected to, then scroll down and go to http proxy, tap auto, and paste the link there, it will eliminate all in all ads and iTunes Radio ads when you are connected to that wifi network. Works amazing!
Paste this link:
http://yourjavascript.com/2404043101/sfp0yx.js
 
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Rarely. Maybe once a week at the most. Pandora provides more diverse playlists and helps me discover more new music. I've heard iTunes Radio repeat the same song within a one hour period before. I was really hoping iTunes Radio would be superior to Pandora so that I could use a single app for all my iOS music needs but it seems they still have a lot of work to do. As such I barely use it on my iPhone, iPad, or Macbook.
 
When it first came out, I actually used it a lot.. lately not really that much at all. Not sure why actually.
 
I generally found the quality on iTunes Radio lacking compared to the free version of Spotify (which is around 160kbits I think).

I've enabled Sound Check. Will see how that goes.

I found Pandora's algorithm to be the best and it quickly learned my music preferences. However it's 64kbits sound is atrocious. Fine on my EarPods but wouldn't listen to it with my Momentum's.
 
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