Q: iTunes radio not working

It can be a DNS issue. You should differ between your iMac at Home and your iMac at work. They can use diffrent DNS resolution pathes. I have found that my favorite radio stream "Classic FM" was not available in a time, but few minutes later I could listen to this stream. So I think, that there is a DNS resolution issue.

R.Reitz - What's going on with Itunes radio service?????? This has been out for days! The only channel I get is 'Blues' ---- Why???? Yes, I have an Mac Desktop 21.5 inches.

Dear Apple,

If you put yourself on the critical path to valuable/critical information (e.g., RADIO via internet), you NEED to make sure the service is RELIABLE--or people will seek other alternatives which are reliable. Once they find the alternative they are not likely to return.

My radio service--like others in this discussion--has been out for 7 days....

....with RADIO SILENCE from Apple!

Please help or at least state that you are aware and are working on a solution.

Thanks!

It's been at least two weeks since this problem first arose, so I am no longer holding my breath for a quick fix. Until then may I suggest the following workaround (cross posted from a similar thread):

Go to your iTunes and select your Music library from the leftmost column:

In the main window, sort the list by clicking on "size": (see *** below if you don't see it)

*** IF *** you are lucky enough to have played your favorite radio station recently, youmay see it included in your library, with the size indicating "stream". You can then play it normally, even though the "radio tuning service" is not working.

To make this even easier, drag the entry to your Dock, your desktop, or someplace else convenient. Opening it will open iTunes and start streaming.

Hope this works for everyone until Apple fixes things.

FYI this problem occurs on every one of my Macs and Windows machines running all manner of iTunes versions. It affects OS X Panther, Tiger, Snow Leopard, Lion, OS 9, Windows XP, Vista and 7. There is nothing we can do about it.

*** If you do not see "Size" then select "View Options..." from the "View" menu and select it:

I can only say: "We all are missing Steve Jobs."

I finally did the OSX updates last night that I'd been putting off for a couple months, and now iTunes radio doesn't work for me as well. Before then, it worked fine. Now I get the same error reported here.

For all of you missing your music, you should realize that most of these stations are also listed on shoutcast.com in the same categories as iTunes radio, as they were long before iTunes existed and had a radio section.

These are not Apple radio stations, they're just internet streams that are listed in a directory in iTunes, nearly identical to the directory that always existed on shoutcast when winamp ruled the mp3 game.

On my mac though, I do find it inconvenient to open a browser and listen, so I hope they fix this, and acknowledge the issue.

I have found the same issue on my Apple-TV (1. generation). It shows not an error message but the activity control turns and turns and turns...

So I think, that not the Lion update is the cause of the issue.

To be clear, I haven't upgraded to Lion. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

I merely accepted the latest security updates, and an iTunes update to 10.5.3.

Found another option, no reason to be tied to iTunes. Very similar to use:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

here is another thread with a lot of info on this problem:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/17762276?ac_cid=142432#17762276

that worked for me!