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

Yes.....

captain kaos said:
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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Yes....Just like Pandora charges $36 per year to remove ads...and Spotify charges $60 per year if you want to skip ads on your computer (or $120 to remove ads and play on mobile device).

It's hard to get something for nothing...
 
I just hope that Apple will stand out and offer their service in Canada. Spotify, Googles Whateveritscalled, Pandora don't seem to care about us.
Actually I'd be surprised if they won't offer it.
 
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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I thought the Spoitfy Pandora clone "Artist Radio" was available on the app for free. But I quit Spotfiy after subscribing for several months because I hate the UI in both the desktop and mobile apps and I hate that I have to have a desktop app. If I wasn't really loving Google Play Music All Access, I would give iTunes Match a shot, but I want on-demand access to almost anything I would ever want to listen to. Plus I get a Pandora clone, and iTunes Match like functionality, and a music store. In the browser on any computer.
 
kilcher said:
There are apps for that. :)
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Without the FM radio hardware there is no way to get radio reception. Your App suggestion is simply a streaming online radios. He is asking for a real radio tuner that many phones have.
 
I play a movie on my phone and the phone heats up. If i stream radio, would that heat up my device?
 
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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And the royalties to the music companies!

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franswa za said:
ka- ching!

aapl and/or goog

pick y/our poison

:)
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2 bucks a month is pretty mild poison

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HobeSoundDarryl said:
No easy cut for Apple with FM.

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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.
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Is that the evil plot behind Spotify and Pandora too?and all the myriad streaming options in the App store?

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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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I would suggest give it a try at home or on Wifi.If you feel you like it and it's worth it to you,pay the$2 per month to avoid the video ads.

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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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Will you just stop?You've made your point.You obviously are incapable of grasping the differences between the two services and the concept that someone might prefer this new choice.I'm willing to bet those stations will still be there.If not they will still be there on the internet.They are not Apple's stations anyway.LOTS of streaming music choices out there.
You might as well chill out.You can't change what's going to happen and you'll change no one's mind here.
 
iTunes radio will be a big hit

chabig said:
Those are canned radio stations. You have no choice of songs. iTunes radio is customized for you alone. You can choose music and skip songs you don't want to hear. It's a big difference.
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I think that iTunes Radio is the best thing ever because sure you have annoying ads every 15 minutes by audio and once an hour a video ad but WHO CARES?! IT IS STILL A GOOD SERVICE AND IF YOU CAN'T GET OVER A FEW DANTY LITTLE ADS THEN I SUGGEST YOU SHUT UP ITUNES RADIO WILL BE A BIG HIT AND I AGREE COMPLETELY WITH THE PERSON ABOVE!

:apple:
 
palmharbor said:
I guess the thought today is : Why listen to internet radio for FREE on itunes today when you can pay a fee to listen soon? Is that the thinking of everyone?
Sorry, this is nuts...
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Methinks you haven't fully looked into iTunes Match. It's much more than just going ad-free with iTunes Radio. It treats your whole collection as if you bought every song on iTunes; gives you 256kbps files even for your low-"rez" copies; allows you access to those songs on any of your I-devices. Certainly worth $2.08 a month.
 
Ads

Any Apple product with ad's is a no-go for me.
I hate ad's in any form. So if they launch iTunes Radio with ad's I will not use it. Bad move Apple.....I am prepared to pay premium prices, but then don't come with this ad stuff. #fail
 
I stay with Spotify simply because I like to choose to which band I like to listen to and make my own music list without any annoying commercial break. Ys, it cost me €10,- a month but you get so much more then Apple's or Google's radio streams.

I heard that Google allows to see what numbers will be next in line so you can at least skip to a song of "choice" wonder if hat would be possible in Apple's iRadio.

Also tip for radio lovers, shoutcast! It's old but most stations are add free.
 
If iTunes radio doesn't play ads in Spanish like Pandora does, I'm all over it. Nothing against the language, mind you, but I can barely tolerate ads, and positively despise them in a language I don't understand.
 
I don't use iTunes Match so I guess I'll stick with pandora and Adblock plus which means free radio and no ads :).
 
ZacNicholson said:
ill stick with pandora. i use the jailbreak tweak that lets me get unlimited skips and have no ads.
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great, lets all ruin pandora so we have less options... :rolleyes:

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roeland1964 said:
Any Apple product with ad's is a no-go for me.
I hate ad's in any form. So if they launch iTunes Radio with ad's I will not use it. Bad move Apple.....I am prepared to pay premium price, but then don't come with this ad stuff. #fail
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well you can have it ads-free if you don't mind paying premium price.
 
How are people even complaining about ads when it's $25 per *year* to remove them, making it the cheapest music streaming option out there?

And are people actually calling $25/year *premium*?

uvmskier said:
I don't use iTunes Match so I guess I'll stick with pandora and Adblock plus which means free radio and no ads :).
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Congratulations on being a complete jerk and making the experience worse for everyone else, I guess?
 
chabig said:
Those are canned radio stations. You have no choice of songs. iTunes radio is customized for you alone. You can choose music and skip songs you don't want to hear. It's a big difference.
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If you are listening to music on iTunes from your library, do you not "choose music and skip songs you don't want to hear?" I think the iTunes radio NOW is great...even if you "customize" such as David Bowie Songs...there still will be some of his music you don't care to hear BUT YOU WILL BE FORCED TO..and you will pay for it. Sorry, the choice of over 920 commercial free stations just under Electronica without charge...its the most revolutionary thing that apple has done with iTunes...charging for music is just a plan from the bean counters to take more money from our wallet...."why give it away free, when the Geeks will pay for it?"
 
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slu said:
I am glad I am a Google Play Music All Access Subscriber so I don't have to use iTunes Radio at all.
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I'd use Google Play as well, except I fell for their ploy of 'get everyone to subscribe at the introductory rate with promises of an iOS app any day' and yet, here we are, 3 months later and still no app, and zero communications from Google. Neat.
 
Apple, many of us want a REAL AM/FM/Shortwave/TV receiver in our devices.

I don't want to have to get on the grid to get entertainment or news. And in an emergency, broadcast media are more likely to remain available than the internet infrastructure.

Of course such an idea runs completely counter to Apple's current mindset.
 
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