Apple Inc has recently released iTunes Radio on Monday
as it opened it annual developer discussion in San Francisco, offering it as an
different to the internet radio service Pandora, giving user’s right to use to
over 200 curate radio stations featuring music from the iTunes music catalogue.
iTunes Radio Services will be accessible on iOS devices
(iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) running iOS 7 as well as the iTunes on the Mac or
PC. Some of the pre-packaged stations consist of Summer Songs and Trending on
Twitter (which appears to pull in songs from Twitter Music).
Apple complete deals with the major music labels for
iTunes Radio in the last few weeks, reports specify. The company first signed
on Universal Music, then Warner and to finish Sony just a few days ago.
The music streaming service is coming to the US first,
with other countries being added over time. It is set to launch in the US this
fall (that's autumn to the rest of us).
Apple's Eddy Cue ran through Pandora-like 'radio
stations' which it hopes will transfigure how you find new music - with the
ever-present buy button reminding you that you can, of course, buy the songs
from iTunes.
Free with ads, it's entirely 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.
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