The speculations were confirmed and Apple at today's conference WWDC 2013 actually introduced a new music service, iTunes Radio. In this way, it brings users a free service that offers more than 200 different stations and a huge catalog of music directly from iTunes Store, combined with the features offered by iTunes. If you choose to listen to iTunes Radio on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC or Apple TV, you'll instantly be able to subscribe to music stations that offer music inspired by yours. We also find the Featured Stations section, which offers music that he chooses and chooses himself Apple. Users can also listen to music with a specific genre or create their own music station.
iTunes Radio adapts to what music you listen to and buy. The more you use iTunes Radio and iTunes, the more the service learns about your personal preferences. iTunes Radio also offers the opportunity to listen to premieres of brand new songs from the most famous artists. Integration is also new Siri and the ability to tag or buy music with a single click. However, if you come across songs that you don't like, you can simply block them and ignore them in the future.
iTunes Radio offers new songs every week, as all music is added at the same time it is released on iTunes Store. Also new should be the ability to watch special events, such as the annual iTunes Festival. iTunes Radio will be available in the fall for users in the US, but later it should reach other countries that support iTunes Store.
Users will be able to navigate through the history of the music they have listened to and if they are interested, they will be able to purchase this music with one click, without the need to enter iTunes Store. The service itself will be available to all users for free, but you will have to deal with ads. But this does not apply to iTunes Match users, who will be able to listen to music without any hint of advertisements.
Wait, now please don't stonewall me but there won't be any monthly/annual fees either? Will it be completely free?
Yes, on keynote That being said: completely free with ads, anyone with paid iTunes Match gets no ads.
A bit of a blow to the google all play all thay music play store and God knows what it's called. It's paid, if I remember correctly, right? With some monthly rates.