iTunes Radio streaming launched by Apple alongside list of new iOS 7 features

Gerald Lynch Apple, Digital Music, iTunes, Tech Digest news
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itunes-radio-top-official.pngAmong the list of new features set to launch in the new iOs 7 OS for iPhone and iPad is Apple’s long-awaited music streaming service, iTunes Radio.

Integrated directly into the music player app as a “music discovery service”, it makes use of a list of featured stations that you can swipe though. Tapping the station name plays it, and stations seem to be based around individual artists as well as genres and curated offerings.

Tapping a star next to a track lets the service know to play more songs that are similar, add it to an iTunes download wishlist, or remove the song from ever playing on iTunes Radio ever again. The “Nickleback button” if you like.

Free with ads, it’s completely free to iTunes Match subscribers, coming totally ad-free to those folks. No separate subscription plan then will give Apple a big boost here in the fight against Spotify, though there was no word of offline playlists either, suggesting the company are still trying to get people to splash the cash on tune downloads through iTunes.

Rolling out in the US first, it’ll be available through iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and also works in iTunes on the Mac and AppleTV.

Image credit – Engadget

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2 comments

  • Whaaaat? Let me get this straight, a service where you select the band or style that you want the stream to play and it just does it? And if you like something it plays more of it and if you don’t it play less? Total GENIUS! Wow the folks at Apple sure know what they’re doing . . . no one has ever thought of this before!!! (note for the logic impaired the preceding is total sarcasm)

  • Whaaaat? Let me get this straight, a service where you select the band or style that you want the stream to play and it just does it? And if you like something it plays more of it and if you don't it play less? Total GENIUS! Wow the folks at Apple sure know what they're doing . . . no one has ever thought of this before!!! (note for the logic impaired the preceding is total sarcasm)

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