Apple has introduced a music-streaming service called iTunes Radio, to be found natively in the upcoming iOS 7. For now, the service will be right in the Music app on iOS, and will offer up a series of featured stations (including, for the demo, a station of the music heard at WWDC). Just tap on a station, and you’ll get music from it, and you can choose to star songs to hear them again often, play more songs like this or choose to never play a certain song again.
The service is completely free, and supported by ads (presumably driven, as expected, by iAds). If you’re an iTunes Match subscriber, however, the service will be completely ad-free, so that’s a nice bonus. For the moment, there appears to be no offline play available, but we’ll check and see if that’s the case. iTunes Radio will be a feature in iOS 7, which is also coming to iPad sometime later on this year.
Streaming iTunes Radio service will be part of iOS 7 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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