Well that's too bad. I've enjoyed the relatively ad-free beta period. Will be sad to see it end, but of course I understand why it will and should. Hopefully the pricing on an ad-free plan will be similar to that of Pandora or Songza.
I think you're right that this is probably only Apple's version of Pandora.
Likely just music/audio based on Genius recommendations and not Internet radio stations.
That's exactly what it is, but since it draws those selections from a very large portion of the iTunes library, it has more variety and diversity so far when compared to Pandora. The like/dislike algorithm also seems to do a better job shuffling in music that I like, while banishing that which I don't.
Will iRadio have a world wide rollout on release? That would be awesome, and would make it much more successful than pandora, believe, since pandora is not available everywhere. At least not in southamerica.
Will iRadio have a world wide rollout on release? That would be awesome, and would make it much more successful than pandora, believe, since pandora is not available everywhere. At least not in southamerica.
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Well that's too bad. I've enjoyed the relatively ad-free beta period. Will be sad to see it end, but of course I understand why it will and should. Hopefully the pricing on an ad-free plan will be similar to that of Pandora or Songza.
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Originally Posted by blackbook
I think you're right that this is probably only Apple's version of Pandora.
Likely just music/audio based on Genius recommendations and not Internet radio stations.
That's exactly what it is, but since it draws those selections from a very large portion of the iTunes library, it has more variety and diversity so far when compared to Pandora. The like/dislike algorithm also seems to do a better job shuffling in music that I like, while banishing that which I don't.
The claims are it's US only at launch