Apple's ad-supported iTunes Radio will go away at the end of January

Apple's ad-supported iTunes Radio will go away at the end of January, iTunes Radio was Apple's aboriginal attack into alive music, but a appealing above change to the account is accepted -- today, the aggregation has started sending emails to barter adage that iTunes Radio will no best be a free, ad-supported account for iTunes users. At the end of January, you'll alone be able to admission the account if you're a paying Apple Music subscriber, and Beats 1 will be the alone chargeless music advantage for iTunes users.

Apple accepted the change with the afterward account accustomed to Buzzfeed:

"We are authoritative Beats 1 the arch chargeless advertisement from Apple and phasing out the ad-supported stations at the end of January. Additionally, with an Apple Music membership, admirers can admission dozens of radio stations curated by our aggregation of music experts, accoutrement a ambit of genres, commercial-free with absolute skips. The chargeless three-month balloon of Apple Music includes radio."

For those that may not recall, iTunes Radio is an ad-supported alive account that's agnate to Pandora. You can alpha a base based on an artist, song or brand and Apple uses its algorithms to serve up agnate accompanying music. But you can't fast advanced or rewind and can alone skip six songs per hour. There are aswell ads that arrest playback, unless you were a subscriber to the iTunes Match music locker service.

The iTunes Radio appearance were formed into Apple Music if it launched at the end of June endure year, and you could still admission the ad-supported stations if you weren't a paying Apple Music user. But now, you'll either charge to carapace out for Apple Music or alpha your chargeless balloon membership. It's not a awfully hasty move for Apple -- the aggregation didn't barrage Apple Music with a chargeless bank like Spotify has, and that's helped the aggregation advance some absolute agreeable like Taylor Swift's catalog. Ending the ad-supported iTunes Radio account added reinforces that charge to accepting its users to pay algid harder banknote for music.

Buzzfeed

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/15/apple-itunes-radio-no-longer-free/

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