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iTunes Radio to Debut in September with Multiple High-Profile Advertising Partners

Coming to an Apple Podcast app near you

I think it won't be long before we see this on podcasts, in the form of:

1) iTunes Radio with podcast channels, on all devices
2) Apple's Podcast iOS app
3) A future web version of iTunes Radio, with podcast channels

Apple will finally directly start making money on all the podcasts they've been hosting all these years.
 
BMcCoy said:
Why haven't we got FM radio on the iPhone?
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No easy cut for Apple with FM.

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Lostanddamned said:
It isn't free. The price you pay is that you spend some of your time listening to advertisements that are paying for the bandwidth you use.
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No, we're generally paying for bandwidth too. It's what I think iRadio is really about. Make more money for iPhone subsidy partners unless the masses can resist streaming to wifi only.
 
Tyler23 said:
Why would someone with low cap data plans be streaming audio when not on wifi to begin with?
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I can listen to ~100 hours of audio over cellular each month.

I can watch about ~2 hours of video over cellular.

Video takes up about 50x as much data as audio alone.

(I'd like to add an emphasis that all these numbers are approximated based on empirical data. I have listened to audio for 2 hours a day over iHeartRadio for entire months going just over 50% of my plan, but when I streamed the iPhone 5 announcement keynote over cellular last year that nearly ate up all of my data for the month.)
 
This is in the top 3 reasons I'm waiting for ios7. I don't like pandora as any station I create goes way off track in 30 min to an hour. Spotify is nice but not available on phone unless you pay. Maybe this will be done right
 
On today

retrospek said:
When will it be released in the UK ? :D
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Go to iTunes....select radio choose the music you prefer, click on it.
If you like Dance...select Electronica and pick one of 50+ FREE STATIONS,
Commercial Free...try Music One...based in UK....there you have it and
its Free...no money...all the music choices you could possibly want TODAY.
Some people say why listen free when you can soon pay for it...is that you?:confused:
 
For those with early access...

Nice to hear about your experience/issues here. But if you have access, you are a seed tester and/or registered developer. I hope you are also filing the appropriate bug reports, since this is still a pre-release functionality, and the point of you having early access is to submit bug reports.

Gentle reminder to all, lets not rush to judgement until it is released to the public...

:)

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Illusion986 said:
This is in the top 3 reasons I'm waiting for ios7. I don't like pandora as any station I create goes way off track in 30 min to an hour. Spotify is nice but not available on phone unless you pay. Maybe this will be done right
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From what I hear, it is much more relevant to what you create.
 
Lord Hamsa said:
Um, yuck.

Well, I was probably planning on picking up iTunes Match anyway...
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This is crazy. All of the bad advertising of the Internet, along with we-don't-care-about-your-privacy google, I hate to seem them going this route. Can you imaging composing a long work email and all of a sudden the screen is full with a full screen advertisement and you have to wait on it to go away? I do have iTunes Match, but if I didn't I would have to pass on this.
 
It looks more and more to me like iTunes Radio will be the dominant feature of the iOS 7 presentation at the iPhone event. While the new interface will certainly get lots of attention, interface has never been the focus of Apple events, it's about what you can do with your device that matters. The fingerprint sensor might make a big splash too, but only so far as what capabilities it will add that gives the user a good experience. Perhaps a multi-user environment. Perhaps theft-deterrance. I'm sure the camera is getting a bump too. iTunes Radio, though, is going to be the big new service Apple will be pushing.

The only question now is, how many other product announcements will we see, if any, at the iPhone event?
 
cube said:
It can replace your tracks with a different version.
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How does that make it unusable though? I've got thousands and thousands of songs that all sync just fine. The main purpose of iTunes Match isn't to replace your tracks with different ones. iTunes Match is meant to make all of your iTunes library available in iCloud with the added bonus of it upping the quality of your songs if they exist in iTunes. When I use it, it works perfectly fine and dandy 95% of the time.

So, how exactly is it unusable?

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palmharbor said:
Let me understand ....you say, why get an extensive radio music selection on iTunes free NOW...when soon you can pay $25 for it?
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No.

You're confusing iTunes Radio with the built in Radio functionality in iTunes.

iTunes Radio builds a station based on your tastes and genre/mood/occasion selection and has ads unless you pay $25 a year

Radio in iTunes plays predetermined AM/FM stations that are streamed online. You don't pick the genre/mood/occasion of the station, and it automatically has ads based on the location of its broadcast.

You can get your radio music selection on iTunes for free now and forever (with ads)

You can use iTunes Radio for free now(with iOS 7 Beta) and forever (or pay $25 and cut ads)

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ArtOfWarfare said:
I can listen to ~100 hours of audio over cellular each month.

I can watch about ~2 hours of video over cellular.

Video takes up about 50x as much data as audio alone.

(I'd like to add an emphasis that all these numbers are approximated based on empirical data. I have listened to audio for 2 hours a day over iHeartRadio for entire months going just over 50% of my plan, but when I streamed the iPhone 5 announcement keynote over cellular last year that nearly ate up all of my data for the month.)
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Out of curiosity, what is your current data plan?
 
palmharbor said:
6800 minutes of music is 17K songs...do you do anything else but listen to music...?
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17,000 songs are the ones that are matched... there are a few that were not matched. But it's not even one album per week purchased on average. Takes about four years until I have to start repeating :D
 
Fresh Pie said:
And to think I was annoyed with the out-of-place guitar riff transitions before the random voice says "iTunes Radio".
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what are those supposed to be future commercials? and the title says singled out? what does that even mean?

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HiRez said:
VIDEO ads? Oh boy, just wait until people start blowing through their monthly data caps and can't figure out why. Especially if you have one of those plans for a few hundred MB. That is enough to stream audio with, but not enough to support any kind of video.
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see, you shouldn't be streaming if you don't have much bandwidth. it's one of the things I like about iTunes Match, is you can control if it will use cellular data. if you are in a zone where data sucks you can turn that option off and just go through the music you've already listened (cached). otherwise just download other tracks, playlists when you are on wifi.

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dBeats said:
Should be the same as iTunes Match files, 256kb AAC. I can't tell the difference in quality between the songs I own and the iTunes Radio songs.


For those that want to dismiss iTunes Radio and think the business model is wrong, you are leaving out one very important point. Both Spotify and Pandora are losing money or barely scraping by. They can't stay in business forever with the model they are using. iTunes Radio is a great way to listen to music that you like, but also a great way to discover news songs to buy. I've actually bought about $25 worth of songs since I started listening to iTunes Radio. That's the beauty, it's free, and if you really like a song, you can buy it and listen to it at any time later. You can even check the history at the end of the day for that one new song you heard that you liked, but didn't know what it was. So basically, any money I put into it, I get something I own in return.

$xx/mnth for renting the rights to listen to music is stupid. I don't understand why people think this is the future. In the future I'd like to own the things I like.
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yeah I noticed I've been buying more than my normal just because I've been trying the service. One other note, there is a wish list so you can decide what you want to buy later (if you can resist your impulse) :D
 
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Personally, I'd rather not see ads, but I think it's a good idea for Apple to expand iAd to lower the cost of products and services for people who don't mind seeing ads, and to other platforms to generate more revenue.

It's also a good way to undermine Google's and Amazon's long-term strategy to offer products at or near cost in order to generate revenue via ads.
 
glad i have itunes match already and its BRILLIANT. kinda sad it essentially killed my iPod classic.

this is just icing on the cake tho, no ads!!
 
Roy Hobbs said:
Unusable? I use it almost daily on muliple iOS devices without issue.
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I wouldn't call frequently mismatching music working "without issue." Just this weekend I loaded in some free live tracks that a band released, professionally recorded, very high quality sounding, and Match matched them to studio albums. That is an ongoing problem. There's no excuse for this - there is no way it can possibly mistake those tracks and yet it does. I've had this problem from the beginning but keep using it because I can use it to clean up my older mp3s (swap in and swap out stuff to keep it below 25,000 tracks). Apple still provides absolutely no way to rematch or correct mismatched tracks, which is a travesty since we're paying for this service.
 
Sorry but why are people saying "oh, I'm not going to switch" when you're talking about a free product.

How about, you know, using both?

Still, though; at $25/year, this essentially blows all the other paid music streaming programs out of the water.
 
Sounds like you're being forced to pay for iTunes Match if you don't want your playback disrupted with ads.

Great.
 
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