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iOS 8.4 Launching at 8 AM Pacific Tuesday, Beats 1 Goes Live at 9 AM [Updated]

iZac said:
Hope someone might help me with a question, not been getting good results off Google:

I'm an iTunes Match customer with a UK account. I've been waiting for years for iTunes radio to reach the UK.

iTunes Radio was available without ads to US customers, so ... does that mean I'll be able to have access to Beats 1 and Apples radio service without needing the Apple Music subscription? Or was the expansion of 25,000 to 100,000 songs on iTunes Match designed to bamboozle/distract iTunes Match customers?

iTunes Match with iTunes Radio also curated the radio to your music collection, so doesn't that basically make Apple Music's radio offering a simple rebrand of iTunes Match?

I have a feeling that the radio service is entirely behind the a la carte streaming paywall now?
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Have you checked the Apple Music pages on Apple's site? It explains it. It's slightly different for each country. The equivalent of iTunes Radio is free in the U.S., but the amount of skips is dependent on location and membership. If you're a member, you get unlimited skips. In the U.S. You get 6 skips on the free end. Check your country's site for the checklist that's for you. In the UK, it appears the iTunes Radio is membership only, currently. Looks like we have the music industry to blame for that here.

http://www.apple.com/music/membership/

Edited to add link.
 
Does this update have anything in it important? I mean besides the utterly worthless Dr. Dre Z stuff or whatever his name is.
 
Personally, I wished Apple had just delayed the release of the new versions of iOS and iTunes 24 hours. There's a reason for this: the leap second that will arrive at 1700 hours PDT/2000 hours EDT today, which (in theory) could cause no end of trouble with computer systems around the world like what really happened in 2012.
 
iSunrise said:
Since there's also a norwegian iTunes Store, you can expect it to be ready on day one. Apple just needed to re-negotiate all tracks also for streaming, they basically will offer almost 100% of the iTunes Store content in the long run, doesn't make sense any other way.
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Hope so! Just three more hours and we will know for sure...
 
I guess the embargo has lifted on all of the reviews of Apple Music. Some good reading to kill time before the launch.
 
I will be hammering F5 as I have done when I waiting for my Apple Watch order and Status updates. However, I have a feeling that due to all the people trying to get the update straight away this will be a much harder task.

What are the odds of Apple servers crashing?

Did we not have huge issues with iOS 7 or 8 when it took 6-8 hours to download...? Can this this going the same way.
 
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