Apple just unveiled brand new iTunes Radio to the public in 2013 WWDC. It means that iTunes Radio coming this fall has stepped into streaming music service market for sure. Right now, there are iTunes Radio, Pandora, Spotify and iHeartRadio four options offered to help enjoy music on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC or Apple TV. So which streaming music service is your favorite and which one is the most appealing in the market, here let’s go to have a comparison.
iTunes Radio
The brand new iTunes Radio from Apple enables to stream variety of music with the best selection. Here you can enjoy particularly featured stations, which are inspired and composed by the music you have already listened and downloaded, including Rock, Classic, R&B and more different kinds of music. While listening, you can make adjustments by clicking on “Play More Like This” or “Never Play This Song”, it means your music station is controlled by your own rule. Also Siri enables to choose the music you want to hear by saying anything to it no matter where you are. iTunes Radio make it easily to collect a song to your music library by checking your history for a list of everything you have heard and your Wish list. And of course any music you have heard or you are listening can be bought online for safety. By the way iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC or Apple TV are supported and more music you listened, more personalized your iTunes radio stations will be.
Pandora
Pandora Radio is an automated and advanced music recommendation service operated by Pandora Media Inc. launched on July 21, 2005. The core technology of Pandora is called Music Genome Project, which keeps making efforts to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level for every user by using almost 400 attributes to describe songs and a complex mathematical algorithm to organize them. The Music Genome Project’s database is built by using a methodology that includes the use of precisely defined terminology, a consistent frame of reference, redundant analysis, and ongoing quality control to ensure that data integrity remains reliably high. Except for the Music Genome Project, Pandora are supported to be played on home CE devices such as WD TV, Roku, Google TV, audio-video receivers, and Blu-ray players, furthermore it also can be player in vehicles, including but not limited to the BMW, Buick, Ford, GMC, Honda, Hyundai, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes Benz, MINI, Nissan, Scion, and Toyota.
Spotify
Spotify is a professional music streaming service launched October 2008, which provides DRM-protected music content from kinds of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal. The desktop versions, mobile version, and web browser version are supported for every user to choose. Here spotify is more like a commercial and integrated music streaming service, cause it doesn’t automatically create preference-based playlists and it needs the third party applications to cooperate. These third party applications include Despotify, Jotify, Last.fm for Spotify, and Tomahawk, the most prominent of these is Despotify which is a free software open source client for Spotify’s service. The most particular of Spotify is that you can’t download music from it directly and it’s just for listening music online.
iHeartRadio
iHeartRadio is an online radio platform as the website iheartmusic.com founded in April 2008, which owned by Clear Channel Broadcasting Inc. iHeartRadio now majors in being a professional music recommender and a giant radio network which aggregates contents from over 800 local Clear Channel radio stations across the United States, as well as hundreds of stations owned by companies other than Clear Channel. And customized stations are also supportive, but these customized stations are limited to one seed. Actually iHeartRadio is more like a normal FM Radio, because those radios in it are divided into three topics: music, news & talk, and sports, but the sound quality in iHeartRadio is much better than the normal FM Radios and the advertisement is less than the normal FM Radios. While hearing music, it will automatically record songs you have heard and show the details of every song for you to buy from iTunes by tapping the album cover.
Different services, different advantages. Apple and iTunes Radio still has a long way to catch up with the other competitors’ steps. So does Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player, a worldwide Blu-ray media player, which can successfully playback Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray movies and Blu-ray videos on Mac & PC, as well as on iOS devices like iPhone / iPad / iPad mini / iPod touch (iTouch). To get the newest Tech news and Blu-ray news, please focus on Mac Blu-ray Player, also you can link to Macgo official Facebook:
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