iTunes Radio
Apple is launching iTunes Radio service with touchscreen interface for its popular smartphones and tablets.
iTunes Radio service is free with ads or as part of iTunes Match just $24.99 per year for an ad-free experience and store all their content in Apple's iCloud. The main competitor Pandora is charging $36 per year.
iTunes Radio will consists of more than 200 featured stations created by Apple. Additionally user can create stations of their own. User can create a station from the stations screen. When you select to create a new station you will see a list of genres created by Apple and a field at the top of the screen where you can type an artist, genre or song. As you type, iTunes Radio will give you instructions. When you complete your entry, the station will be added to the stations screen and appear in the My Stations heading. You can also choose to share the station with a friend from this screen.
iTunes Radio will be available with iOS7, upcoming version of iTunes for the Mac and Windows and also accessible through an Apple TV.
About Siri: The service will be integrated with Apple's personal voice-assistant software program Siri, so users will be able to find out "who plays that song?" or ask the program to "play more like this". When you are in the car, working out or just relaxing, you can ask Siri to play what you are in the mood to hear. For instance, if you are listening to your favorite Hip Hop track, tell Siri "Play more like this" and hear similar songs. You can also say things like "Who sings this?" to find out the artist. Ask Siri to play any of your favorite genres or stations. Or pause, stop or skip to the next song. You can even have Sir add songs to your Wish List for you to download later.
Features:
Apple's iTunes Radio has number of interesting features, this my not possible for Pandora to match. One of the more interesting features is level of control over how the song suggestion algorithm selects its next tune.
Audio Quality: Apple is not yet published specification on the streaming audio quality of iTunes
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Price: The subscription for iTunes Radio price is $24.99 per year for Apple iTunes Match service, which includes ad-free iTunes Radio. Pandora is charging $36 per year for Pandora's premium Pandora One service, which both removes ads and improves audio quality.
Social integration: Apple has obviously refortified iTunes from the outside world. At first glance, It seems to be no way to share iTunes Radio stations among friends or tweet your currently playing iTunes Radio song. This functionality might be revealed once we begin to play with iTunes Radio.