What happened to rock radios in iTunes?
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From: Chris Ridd on 23 Jul 2010 02:53 On 2010-07-23 00:53:15 +0100, Jack Campin - bogus address said: >> >> A while back I discovered that all the rock radio stations vanished >> from the iTunes presets. I wonder if they're ever coming back? > > The whole "Folk" category has also vanished. > > How do you persude iTunes to play something it doesn't already > know about? One I would like to get into its playlist is > folkradio.hu - I can play its Windows Media Player or WinAmp > streams in VLC, but not in iTunes. Does Advanced > Open Audio Stream do what you want? -- Chris
From: Andy Hewitt on 23 Jul 2010 02:57 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:29:04 +0100, thewildrover(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt) > wrote: > > >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:19:21 +0200, isteen(a)gmail.com (Steen) wrote: > >> > >> >A while back I discovered that all the rock radio stations vanished from > >> >the iTunes presets. I wonder if they're ever coming back? > >> > >> Mine has Alternative Rock, Classic Rock, Hard Rock/Metal here, and > >> plenty of stations in each. I believe they're all updated live from > >> Apple while you're browsing, so they're not really presets. > > > >Yup, I have all those too, loads of stations showing in each. > > > >The one thing that I found, or rather lost, is the Folk genre in the > >store has gone. I was beginning to enjoy browsing that section until it > >disappeared. > > Merged into "eclectic", as far as I can tell. No, it's all over the place now, some is in 'vocal', others have gone into 'singer/songwriter'. > Why can't you search in the Radio grouping? Stupid misfeature. Search for what? -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Mark on 23 Jul 2010 04:17 On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:57:52 +0100, Andy Hewitt wrote (in article <1jm2op7.k8pg7e1gg55l5N%thewildrover(a)me.com>): > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:29:04 +0100, thewildrover(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt) >> wrote: >> >>> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:19:21 +0200, isteen(a)gmail.com (Steen) wrote: >>>> >>>>> A while back I discovered that all the rock radio stations vanished from >>>>> the iTunes presets. I wonder if they're ever coming back? >>>> >>>> Mine has Alternative Rock, Classic Rock, Hard Rock/Metal here, and >>>> plenty of stations in each. I believe they're all updated live from >>>> Apple while you're browsing, so they're not really presets. >>> >>> Yup, I have all those too, loads of stations showing in each. >>> >>> The one thing that I found, or rather lost, is the Folk genre in the >>> store has gone. I was beginning to enjoy browsing that section until it >>> disappeared. >> >> Merged into "eclectic", as far as I can tell. > > No, it's all over the place now, some is in 'vocal', others have gone > into 'singer/songwriter'. > >> Why can't you search in the Radio grouping? Stupid misfeature. > > Search for what? > A radio station? Several times I've searched for a method of searching there for a station I wanted. Mark
From: SM on 23 Jul 2010 04:19 Jack Campin - bogus address <bogus(a)purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > A while back I discovered that all the rock radio stations vanished > > from the iTunes presets. I wonder if they're ever coming back? > > The whole "Folk" category has also vanished. > > How do you persude iTunes to play something it doesn't already > know about? One I would like to get into its playlist is > folkradio.hu - I can play its Windows Media Player or WinAmp > streams in VLC, but not in iTunes. Clicking on the WinAmp link on their homepage downloaded modem16.m3u - double clicking that opened the stream in iTunes: <http://www.folkradio.hu/modem16.m3u> Stuart -- cut that out to reply
From: J. J. Lodder on 23 Jul 2010 04:24
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:19:21 +0200, isteen(a)gmail.com (Steen) wrote: > > >A while back I discovered that all the rock radio stations vanished from > >the iTunes presets. I wonder if they're ever coming back? > > Mine has Alternative Rock, Classic Rock, Hard Rock/Metal here, and > plenty of stations in each. I believe they're all updated live from > Apple while you're browsing, so they're not really presets. Of course not. Apple can't, and doesn't want to channel all that volume. These are just links, Jan |