Announced this past June 2013, iTunes Radio will become a reality as it launches on Tuesday September 18th. The new steaming music service will be offered as one of two hundred new feature in it release of iOS7.
While tracks stream, users will be offered the opportunity to buy the tracks that they have just listened to. iTunes Radio will become more personal as one uses it. Songs can be rated by use of a star icon and feed back such as "play more like this," or "never play this song," will serve to help shape a listeners tastes.
Two hundred stations will be available with a catalog that will no doubt span the depths of iTunes it self. The service will be able to build stations around artists, songs, genres, or it can even build a station based on your own music library. There's also so the ability to add, delete or reorder your stations by using the Edit Stations features.
The amount of music discovery on a station can be fine tuned by way of a horizontal slider that allows the user to choose between Discovery and Top Hits. iTunes Radio can be accessed from your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, PC, and Apple TV. All stations will be available in the iCloud, so that the stations that you create on one device can be accessed by any of your other devices.
Listeners will be able to use SIRI in order to ask iTunes, "who plays that song," or tell it to "play more like this." iTunes Radio will not only offer tracks by well established artist but it will also offer tracks by up and coming artist as well. And, a Wish List feature will give listeners the ability to buy their favorite tracks at a later time.
iTunes Radio is ad supported and there fore, free. With all of the above features and more, I'd said, that's a very good deal.
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