How to submit a radio station to iTunes?

I want to know how to submit a radio station to iTunes.

I represent 5 stations with over 500,000 tune-ins per month serving 600,000 THL (total listening hours). But Apple doesn't make it easy to submit something of this magnitude, unless I just don't have the right decoder ring.

If someone has any hints, clues, or the right decoder ring - could ya help?

Many thanks - this is the most annoying bug of iTunes, that no one can solve.

-Tek

iBook G4, 12, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Nov 27, 2005 4:44 AM

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Jan 23, 2006 3:22 PM in response to Tekjnke

Sorry, but there's no mechanism for getting a station added to the iTunes Tuner list. No one outside of Apple knows who's running the server that maintains the list since 3Com shut down Kerbango, the previous host of the list, and for some unknown reason Apple has not provided any way of contacting the current provider or administrator for making changes or additions.

I can only guess why this is the case; perhaps Apple doesn't want to bog iTunes down with potentially a huge list of stations (there are after all hundreds if not thousands of iTunes-compatible streams available) and so only provides a sampling.

You might want to consider listing your station through Live 365 or ShoutCast or another such streaming service. That would get it to the attention of a lot of people.

Jan 23, 2006 3:35 PM in response to Tekjnke

As this is a user-to-user forum you can't expect a 'simple' answer to a 'simple' question.
Your post has been viewed 17 times at the moment I write this one.
The chance someone with specific knowledge of submitting a radio station to iTunes, passes by, isn't really that large.

If contacting Apple doesn't give you any clues, I personally would contact a few radio stations and ask them how they did it.
Some stations in iTunes mention their website. Others can be found 'Googling' for a few keywords.
Although the few I browsed don't have a 'contact us' link, it should be possible to catch one.

M

Feb 8, 2006 2:29 PM in response to macmenno

Yes, I agree with you that because this is a user-to-user forum I shouldn't expect a simple answer to a simple question.

I had hoped that someone from an Apple team would be cruising these forums to see whats up and take notice - but obviously my company is the only one who has tech's like that.

I did try to contact a few stations currently listed and frankly the base response I got was, "what?" or "try emailing so and so". An a-typical corporate ******** run-around.

Its sad really. I love Apple machines ... can't say I agree with the way they program their people, but oh well.

Thanks for the time and thought. If you are looking for some good music while working, and have a signal check out 525.com 🙂

-Tek

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