{"id":5413,"date":"2016-01-30T05:05:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T05:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2016-01-30T05:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T05:05:46","slug":"itunes-radio-r-i-p-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/itunes-radio-r-i-p-4\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Radio, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, Apple pulled the plug on iTunes Radio. I was up late working on my server and the stream just stopped. I keep iTunes in mini-player mode while working and had a Bright Eyes iTunes Radio station going when an Apple-logo showed and that was it\u2026gone.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve stopped using iTunes Match for its core-service. Earlier in 2015, I realized that iTunes Match was really a bad experience for me. I think it\u2019s built for people with very small music libraries who live in cities and spend 80% of their time on WiFi. My iPad and iPhone stopped being synced with iTunes Match\u2026it was eating 2.5 gigabytes a month of data ($20 cost to me on my cell phone plan) and I was streaming music from Match that I owned, that I had CDs for. At work, I turned it off because I had iTunes Radio. I could plug in a favorite artist and listen. It was commercial free because I was an iTunes Match subscriber. In 2014 and 2015, I re-subscribed to Match because of Radio, not the music syncing. I have an iPod Classic with 160 gigabytes of data and I have a 128GB SD Card that\u2019s full-time job is being plugged into my Volkswagen Golf infotainment system. All 22K songs I own are available to me at all times without hitting a Verizon tower. On my iPhone are my core 30 playlists that I \u201cshuffle\u201d every once in a while with new Genius recommended tracks based on my top listened songs. The iPad doesn\u2019t have music on it because I\u2019ve never used iPad as a music machine. I read on it. That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

iTunes Radio was great. Sure, it was free for a lot of people but $25 a year is what Pandora cost or at least what it used to cost..it might be more now. I like supporting Apple and I like using things that are built in to my phone, iMac, MacBook and now, CarPlay. yeah, I can open CarPlay\u2019s music application and click the radio tab and see things I was listening to like a David Bowie radio station and it starts streaming. If I don\u2019t feel like listening to my 21K songs, I have iTunes Radio in my car natively\u2026it\u2019s awesome! Well, I don\u2019t have it anymore.<\/p>\n

I pay for services so I don\u2019t have to deal with advertisements.<\/p>\n

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I was going to write that I\u2019m going to join Pandora and pay them to listen to music without ads but look at that. I can\u2019t. Because I don\u2019t have Adobe Flash.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t afford more than $50 a year and I assume Pandora is less than that but I know Spotify is not so it would appear that we\u2019re back to a life where I just listen to the music I already own which is fine with me. As you can see from the image below, I\u2019ve checked out of \u2018new music\u2019. Unless an artist I love releases a new album, I don\u2019t discover new music anymore. I liked iTunes because if I picked an artist from the 80s, it wouldn\u2019t try to introduce me to an 80s-esque Hipster Band out of Brooklyn that doesn\u2019t use any instrument that requires a power-outlet and other weird stuff. It plays music that I know. I\u2019m afraid that Spotify or Pandora are going to try and push me into the modern age. Maybe not? I haven\u2019t heard an Adele song or a Drake song and don\u2019t plan on starting. I know who they are because they are mentioned on reddit sometimes. I like my own little world away from new music and Apple with their move of $10 a month Apple Music or not in order to use their radio service and with Pandora requiring I install Flash, I\u2019m just going to stick with the music I own.<\/p>\n

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Besides, renting music or borrowing music for a fee just feels weird. I like to own my stuff or at least pay into something I\u2019ll eventually own. You can\u2019t take away the music on my NAS down in the basement. That\u2019s mine forever.<\/p>\n

Thanks Apple. I\u2019m pretty disappointed in you guys on this one. I wasn\u2019t a moocher getting radio for free. I was paying for it. I have to see on the way home how CarPlay\u2019s Radio tab works now that it\u2019s an Apple Music only feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, Apple pulled the plug on iTunes Radio. 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