How is iTunes radio different than the thousands of streaming radio stations that I can access through iTunes? I have a 'playlist' made up of my favourite stations
. it's like the pre-set buttons in a car. Most of the stations I listen to are mostly if not entirely commercial free. Including the CBC R1 through R3, plus their streaming streaming music channels, and the BBC.
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iTunes Radio Adds NPR, with More News Channels on the Way
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NPR is nice but ...
Why would I pay for something I can get for free?
What does iTunes radio offer that would justify paying 25 per year?
Just asking...
Why would I pay for something I can get for free?
What does iTunes radio offer that would justify paying 25 per year?
Just asking...
Oh Sweet!! I LOVE NPR 
All Things Considered. About time to have some news on there, Apple. When I was in my teens and going on road trips…… to the summer house with my dad, he used to listen to NPR and it was when I fell in love with it.
All Things Considered. About time to have some news on there, Apple. When I was in my teens and going on road trips…… to the summer house with my dad, he used to listen to NPR and it was when I fell in love with it.
Here's the question. If using this, will one still be subject to pledge drives for NPR? I know that for some of the NPR streams, if you are already a member of a given station, they have their own pledge-free stream that you can listen to and not have shows pre-empted by pledge drives..
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I wouldn't subscribe to iTunes Radio for it specifically, unless you are really into spontaneous music sampling. To me Radio is a nice commercial-free bonus feature for the worthwhile iTunes Match service. It's really nice to have my entire library in the cloud and also have the high quality DRM-free files backed up on an external.
OMG - Pandora & Spotify (free) has so many more ads/interruptions than iTunes Radio ever does.
It's probably my connected but every time my phone bounces between 4G and LTE the stream cuts out and I have to restart it. I'm on tmobile.
And when you are out of town, and want to listen show that is only local to your NPR station or that is only carried by your local NPR station, you are SOL unless they are archiving the show for free.
BL.
You don't have to pay anything for itunes radio. If you subscribe to the itunes matching service it removes the (very rare and short) ads. Itunes matching does more than that of course, but I would not pay it for the sake of ad removal.
yes, if you can do that I would. Also right now the NPR radio station is just that: a live stream. In itunes radio I cannot pause and rewind (say if I misheard something), nor can I search by show.
For live streams, if they are going this route, they should be able to carry metadata and tell us what the current local show is (for example is it fresh air, etc). But currently they don't.
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With itunes radio you are personalizing the streams. You seed initial stations with genres or a favorite song, and then you like/dislike songs as you hear them and the station takes note of that.
There are ads, but they are so rare and so brief it is quite acceptable. Also, most of the ads I hear are related to music (for example, a new album by artist so and so).
Airplay?
Just tried the station through iTunes. It does not have the capability to Airplay and when playing through my MBP speakers it is very low volume. I would have thought Airplay would have been built into anything playing through iTunes Radio.
Just tried the station through iTunes. It does not have the capability to Airplay and when playing through my MBP speakers it is very low volume. I would have thought Airplay would have been built into anything playing through iTunes Radio.
Just tried the station through iTunes. It does not have the capability to Airplay and when playing through my MBP speakers it is very low volume. I would have thought Airplay would have been built into anything playing through iTunes Radio.
iTunes Radio is an application on Apple TV. No need for the laptop.
Just tried the station through iTunes. It does not have the capability to Airplay and when playing through my MBP speakers it is very low volume. I would have thought Airplay would have been built into anything playing through iTunes Radio.
Are you sure? Does it not show up on your apple TV as well?
I assume the business relationship is that NPR will tone down (or remove altogether) reporting critical of Apple, not unlike what Monsanto did by becoming an Underwriter of programming aired on NPR.
CRTC are a bunch of goons.
I've got my mum hooked on iTunes Radio after creating a US iTunes acct for her in 5 minutes.
Their loss.
I listen to iTunes Radio through iTunes airplaying to living room stereo receiver. No aTV in the living room. The aTV is in my basement hooked to by AVR/TV. I never listen to iTunes Radio form the aTV.
