Beats 1 |OT| Apple Invents Radio, Lowe on High

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They weren't kidding.

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I am so happy you created this thread. I love how much community/ can emerge from Live Radio. I used to work at my Uni's radio station, and it was actually a really big radio station for an entire city.

So it's pretty amazing Apple created a live, human curated channel, and it's something we can all listen to together.
Yeah, Radio still has a place in the world and Apple just showed this.
The curation and the chance to do off the cuff things like playing the Buffy theme song is very good IMO.

Now if the stream would come back up.
 
It went down the exact moment Apple posted the new iTunes update on their site.

EDIT:

Beats 1 is still down even after iTunes updated.
 
Beats 1, I need you!

Actually, going to go watch a movie now. But I really wanted to try this out through iTunes on my surround sound. Noooo.
 
Are they aware they were down? Odd not to hear the DJ mention it.
If it were several hours of downtime or repeated periods of downtime, It'd make sense to mention it. As it is right now, It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
Has Ebro gone up yet as host?

Now to finally download the PC update.
He was up 3 hours ago. It will repeat 12 hours from now I think.
You can also view the playlist from the show.
 
I just found out that the outage has to do with Amazon Web Services being out on the east coast. Reddit and other sites were down for a bit too.
 
I've listened most of the day and so far this request line show is the weakest thing I've heard. The DJs seem to have great taste, the general public not so much.
 
It pretty much was to a promotional song for Apple Music. I don't even have a problem with it. Because its catchy..
 
I fear that's going to be an issue with this station.

"Hey Apple I'll give you an exclusive on my new song if you play it one million times in a month period."

I mean I don't have a huge fear with it. In the grand scheme, they've only played it probably eight times today at most. It's more than any other song, but not overbearing.
 
I like this Pharrell song, but damn they've played it a decent bit today.

Yeah, they said this will be something they do each day. That they will have a "record" of the day, and play it multiple times throughout the day. Pretty much advertising/marketing.

It's annoying. But I guess no worse than Radio stations that are 100% marketing/advertising. At least the other content feels genuine/curated.

Royal Blood is awesome!

Check out their album, it's pretty good all the way through...

Will def do this now!
 
The concept of St. Vincent's show sounds awesome. Can't wait to hear it. Apple really seems to have come up with some good ideas for this station.
 
The concept of St. Vincent's show sounds awesome. Can't wait to hear it. Apple really seems to have come up with some good ideas for this station.

Yeah, that is what actually has me even more excited for all of this. Just the idea that, it can actually improve. That there is content/shows already planned ahead, and we are only seeing this from the beginning. I can actually get better!
 
Apple's site seems to list the newest Windows 64-bit version of iTunes as 12.12. It lists 12.2 for 32-bit though. Are we just waiting for 64-bit? Is there a workaround?
 
I'm feeling this radio thing so hard. Streaming has opened my listening to so many different artists but at the same time I haven't really listened to a lot of different genres. I've heard a bunch of stuff today that I would have just skipped if I stumbled upon but have liked so much.
 
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