Out of curiosity, why do you want to be able to stream to multiple devices?
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New 'Beats 1: Replay' Feature Lets Users Listen to Full Replays of Missed Shows
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Out of curiosity, why do you want to be able to stream to multiple devices?
I have an airport express in my living room and an apple TV in my media room and Denon receiver out on my deck. I want to be able to stream music to all three devices just like I can with ALL the other music from iTunes. Except Beats 1 and NPR.
I also don't want to then switch over to Safari to watch a video and, if I've changed my sound output to accommodate this weird Beats 1restriction, then that audio plays through my airplay device too. And nobody knows why this restriction is in place.
Probably it's a coincidence, but every time I try the Beats 1, only hip hop is playing.
In fact beats 1 provides me several songs I would like to listen more than once or twice, and I have purchased them.
I think this might be the purpose of beats 1.
Seems like it's mainly only something you can decide for yourself, by basically trying it out.
Because you are not interested in something makes it pointless and boring to others? Doesn't quite work that way.
This is absolutely an awesome step for Beats 1 to take. I've had a decent amount of interest in the show, but often just not the time to listen live, so that's nice. I really like Pharrells and Drakes show.
Now just let me download whole shows onto my phone and I'm all set for car journeys!
No destroying my data limit.
No destroying my data limit.
There are podcasts that are recorded versions of live shows (audio DVRs). I think there are EDM podcasts that are all music (Ninja Tune I think). So I would call these on-demand streams podcasts.
i don't think so. I used to listen to radio when i had an old car with a basic CD player with no iphone/ipod integration. But now i always listen to what i want from my 160GB iPod.
A podcast version of a radio show generally has the music cut out for copyright reasons, which isn't the case here so it's not really a podcast.
Yep, I really tried to like it, and must have given it 'one more chance' fifty plus times, but each time I tuned in it was hip-hop/rap playing. Maybe coincidence, maybe design, maybe I'm just unlucky, but for me at least, it doesn't (seem to) play anything I like, so I've given up.
DJs talking over the music didn't help, either.
"Though a feature that's likely going to be welcome by many Beats 1 listeners, Replay is somewhat hidden."
You can also tap on the artist name pretty much anywhere in the music app and under the connect section you'll find these replays. That's not hidden at all.
That's because for people my age, hip-hip/rap is 80% of the music they listen to.
Beats doesn't have a specific genre but it definitely does have an age bracket they're targeting. All of the music Beats plays is the type of music you'll find in every nightclub in my city right now. People pay $15 entry and $10 per drink to get into those clubs, and there's usually a long line out the door and down the street so clearly it's popular music.
If that's not the music you want, then Beats 1 Isn't for you. Hopefully they'll create "Beats 2" with different music.
Well as beats 1 is basically the Radio 1 we get in the UK, maybe Beats 2 will be the equivalent of Radio 2, which I listen to as background noise most days.
PS I'm not some old duffer, I got up at 6am yesterday to watch the Live stream of the last ever show at the House of Blues, LA, to see Steel Panther jamming with Bliiy Ray and Miley Cyrus!
It is a rare occasion when I laugh out loud in front of my computer screen.
My hat is well and truly doffed, Sir.
Not finding a song you even know of on a music based radio station is total win for me, and the entire point. You can play songs you already know from your music library!
Hearing an underground minimal techno track at 1.30pm in the afternoon on a mainstream live music radio station is mindblowing - the BBC in the UK would have to have some crap chart music and an idiot who thinks he's trendy telling jokes for kids under the age of 16.
This simply is_not_true.
I don't really like rap, but listen to it quite a lot.
Even Ebro's show isn't all hip hop and rap.
You know all the playlists are right there in the public domain?