I've been listening this morning, yet to hear a classic rock song. Seems very teenage oriented to me...... I'll listen to it today to give it a go, though unless they play an assortment of tunes, this is not for me.
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I've been listening this morning, yet to hear a classic rock song. Seems very teenage oriented to me...... I'll listen to it today to give it a go, though unless they play an assortment of tunes, this is not for me.
I didn't listen to it all as much, but there was an AC/DC song in the first hour as I recall.
That said, those who aren't teenagers don't somehow only enjoy classic rock (and plenty of non teenagers actually don't care that much about classic rock).
Yeah bit annoying. they need a better error message then just "Unable to Start Station".
Yes, but listeners generally fall into one of a few different broad groupings. Hence why the BBC has Radio 1, Radio 2, etc.
Beats is more similar to Radio 1 than Radio 2.
Yet, in the UK, Radio 2 has three times the listener base of Radio 1.
It seems Apple dropped the ball by launching with only a youth-oriented station, and not also offering an adult-contemporary station.
The link in the article now returns 'access denied'. I was able to read it a few minutes ago and that explains the '403' error I was getting earlier. What doesn't Apple like about Singapore now, were they upset with the low turnout for the watch launch last week or something? (I assume actually they fell foul of the MDA who regulate all kinds of broadcasting, but odd that you can get stations if you pay for them)
While I agree that more variety is a good thing, this isn't necessarily youth oriented as plenty of adults enjoy a lot of the type of music that has been playing so far.
I'm sure they do. Particularly if they are old enough, and their hearing is bad enough, that they don't notice the chronic overuse of autotune.
Or, you know, different people have different tastes when it comes to different things. It's all subjective.
Exactly. Hence the need for multiple stations with different focuses.
Usually, most media outfits have at least two stations - including one dedicated to the current trends, another focused on AOR and adult contemporary. It's an approach which is pretty much standard, because it offers something for most listeners.
Well, as I understand there are genre stations as well (haven't looked into those personally yet).
That said, the name of this station is Beats1 which certainly seems like there's a good chance there might very well be Beats2 (if not even more) over time (otherwise they could have easily just called it something like "Beats Radio"). It's literally the first day of a brand new service, which had to start out with something, pretty hard to make a call as to what they are going to or not going to have or do in the near or far future.
This is really annoying.
Apple has their largest R&D center outside the US in Israel, Israel smartphone per person percentage is somewhere in the top 10 countries in the world and many of them are iPhone owners, not to mention the growing number of people switching from their Windows PC to a Mac.
No official Apple store in Israel (The store in store they opened up now is not a real solution...), No Hebrew support for Siri, Still lacking iWork Hebrew support (although they have really improved it!!!) and now, after Israel was listed in the 90+ (!!!) list of countries that will get Apple music, all of a sudden, with no explanation what so ever, Apple Music is not supported.
How can it be that so many countries do get Apple Music but Israel isn't..?
I'm just after a bit of variation. Like listening to bbc radio 1. Least I'm giving it a go today, but disappointed with the music, in my opinion
Apple Music Radio is even available in the US without a membership. That's different from all the other countries. Wondering why...
Yes it is. Though beats 1 is youth oriented, that's not subjective. If you believe BBC 1 is not youth oriented, I understand your opinion. Also understand ours that we very much see it as youth oriented hence Bbc 2 is more suited to our listening tastes. Alas beats 1 is very similar to BBC 1 in my opinion
What happens if you signed up for Apple Music in a supported country, then travel to an unsupported country? For music saved offline, I can't imagine any scenario other than it playing properly on your device. But what about streaming? It appears Apple is using IP address to determine location (hence people using VPNs to listen to Beats 1 Radio), so it's not clear whether streaming would continue to work outside your home country when you travel. By contrast, Spotify will stream to you worldwide (at least the premium version does), and it uses the country associated with your account to determine your "home country" (just like Apple does using the country associated with your Apple ID for the iTunes/App stores).
I bet China mainland will always be excluded from such services because those citizens don't know and don't want to know what they are.
I have an account from USA and im living in Uruguay, the only thing that doesn’t works is Beats 1