{"id":42878,"date":"2013-06-10T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=42878"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:23:28","slug":"wwdc-2013-apple-announces-itunes-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wwdc-2013-apple-announces-itunes-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"WWDC 2013: Apple announces iTunes Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42949\" title=\"iTunes Radio\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/iTunes-Radio.jpg\" alt=\"iTunes Radio\" width=\"552\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/iTunes-Radio.jpg 552w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/iTunes-Radio-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/>Everyone knew that Apple would be <a title=\"iradio rumors\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apples-streaming-music-service-iradio-looking-likely-for-wwdc-reveal\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcing some sort of music streaming service<\/a> at this year&#8217;s WWDC. Rumors have been heating up for months leading up to today&#8217;s announcement. While most speculated that Apple would release an music subscription service, what we got was a music streaming service, iTunes Radio, which will go head to head with <a title=\"pandora\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/pandora\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pandora<\/a> but only parts of Spotify, Rdio, <a title=\"xbox music\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/xbox-music-brings-free-streaming-to-windows-8-pcs\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xbox Music<\/a>, and <a title=\"google play music all access hands on\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/hands-on-with-google-play-music-all-access\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Play Music All Access<\/a>. Both iTunes Radio and Pandora serve up intelligent radio stations but neither of them provide access to a music library where users can stream and download tracks on demand.<\/p>\n<p>iTunes Radio will be built directly into the iOS 7 music app. Users will be greeted to a familiar interface for browsing music. Mixes and radio stations appear in a carousel. Tap on radio station and music will begin to play. You can train iTunes Radio to recommend what types of songs you like or dislike, similar to Pandora&#8217;s &#8220;thumb&#8221; system.<\/p>\n<p>The service will be free to all iTunes Match subscribers ($24.99\/year) or free with ads. iTunes Radio will be coming in the fall to all iOS devices that support iOS 7 as well as iTunes for Mac and Windows and the AppleTV. iTunes Radio will be launching in the US first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knew that Apple would be announcing some sort of music streaming service at this year&#8217;s WWDC. Rumors have been heating up for months leading up to today&#8217;s announcement. While most speculated that Apple would release an music subscription service, what we got was a music streaming service, iTunes Radio, which will go head to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wwdc-2013-apple-announces-itunes-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WWDC 2013: Apple announces iTunes Radio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":42949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2380],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-42878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionitunes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332801,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42878\/revisions\/332801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42878"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=42878"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=42878"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=42878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}