RADIO MISSING IN ITUNES 11

Took me a while but I finally understand what you're saying: That this thread was originally about a different issue, since it started in February and the new Radio feature only came out yesterday. Thanks for pointing this out. I was slow to see the dates of the original posts.

Seems like many folks are still running into similar issues with the updates though. Maybe a solution to this new problem will arise from this forum discussion, even though it isn't the original topic.

I hope this helps

I just got off the phone with applecare senior advisor...who was also stumped even had me delete and redownload...nothing changed, so he contacted and escalated this up to the top...apples engineering dept and they said nothing is wrong on my end...that for us 10.6.8 snow leopard users that feature is not available in itunes 11.!🙂

Yup

I just got off the phone with applecare senior advisor...who was also stumped even had me delete and redownload...nothing changed, so he contacted and escalated this up to the top...apples engineering dept and they said nothing is wrong on my end...that for us 10.6.8 snow leopard users that feature is not available in itunes 11.!🙂

So I'm a US user with a 3 year old Macbook Pro (10.6.8)... does this mean that I will never be able to get iTunes radio on my laptop even with the new update to 11.1?

When I check for software updates, my computer says I am fully updated. Do I really need to upgrade to a whole new operating system for this?

Thanks in advance!

Correct 10.6.8 is what I have on my older mac too, that is the latest update for snow leopard, thus we will never have itunes radio inside our computers itunes, but we have it on our ios7 iphones. This is what applecare engineers told the senior advisor tech helping me this morning . That's fine as long as nothing is wrong/broke on my end...I have iheart radio and pandora on my mac fine... so I'm not tripping on it.

I posted in another thread about this. I'm in the same boat. Perfectly good iMac that won't go beyond 10.6.8.
I guess that's the downside to having REALLY good hardware! 😉

Anyway, it's odd that Pandora and Spotify run with no problem, but Apple couldn't get Radio working on these systems?

After playing around a while with Radio on my iPad, I can honestly say I don't feellike I'm missing anything at this point in the life of Radio. Maybe later versions, but for now, it is nowhere near as good asPandora. Of course, YMMV.

Radio seems EXTREMELY geared toward driving the listener to that all-important purchase. I got no beef with that; gotta keep the mothership fueled! But as a music lover and listener? I will stick with Pandora on all my devices for the time being.

This isn't the place for you to level your critique about Radio.

Seems like you're just trolling than anything. Not really the kind of thing people enjoy here when trying to get some sort of support from the community.

One isn't mutually exclusive of the other Rach.

Up until two days ago I had ios7 and 10.8.5 on my iphone 5 and macbook air (2013) respectively and Radio was working on both.

It's now working on my phone and not my computer which strikes me as odd.

Um... no. But thanks for your knee-jerk admonition; not the kind of thing people enjoy...

Pretty sure it's NOT trolling to extoll the build quality of the average Mac, of which I have owned and worked with a good many since 1988.

My comment was RELATED to the fact that Radio won't work for those of us with older, BELOVED Macs. For those folks, I was simply saying, "Yes, it won't work for us, but for NOW, maybe we shouldn't feel too bad about it," as it may not be what many of us where hoping for, going so far as to add "at this point" in the life of the service. As with most things Apple, I'm sure it will get better as it evolves.

Sometimes, hearing that you may, in fact, NOT be missing out, is VERY supportive. But I'm sure you know that; you seem EXTREMELY spportive and understanding...

While that's fine people here are trying to figure out WHY it's not working (when it was and/or should be).

Your comment is like telling me that my 10 year old car while still drivable is fine and I shouldn't worry about getting a new one even though I really want it.

It was just a comment, related to MY experience in discovering Radio wouldn't work for me, hence the "YMMV."

Apparently, my willingness to allow for other viewpoints and experiences just doesn't sit well with you. I guess YOUR "M" must really "V."

Dude... deep breath... let it go. Switch to decaf; life's too short.

I was having the same problem, and I somehow got it to work, although my preferences still don't look like other people's preferences (prefernces till only show internet radio, not itunes radio).

I reinstalled iTunes, but I still didn't see radio in the toolbar (I did see internet).

I went to preferences / parental / and checked "internet radio" to disable it, hit okay.

go back into prefernces and uncheck it, hit okay.

That last thing seemed to toggle something and now I see Radio in the toolbar and can get into to iTunes radio, as well as the old "internet" thing.

I hope this helps someone else.

SkotchVail wrote:

I was having the same problem, and I somehow got it to work, although my preferences still don't look like other people's preferences (prefernces till only show internet radio, not itunes radio).

iTunes Radio is not in Preferences.

I have notice, My MBP has "Radio" in iTunes as well as my MacMini in the Office. My Office mate Doesn't have. Both of us are using iTunes 11.1.

I've seen that I signed-in in iTunes with my US account both MBP and Macmini and my office mate in Philippines Store.

I told her to login in iTunes using US account, thus makes the Radio appear in iTunes.

I'm with you. iTunes radio will run on Windows XP and Apple feels compelled to lock out Snow Leopard users (their own customers!). XP is SO much older than Snow Leopard and they can still support it. This really stinks. From Apples Web site:

*iTunes Radio requires iOS 7 or later; OS X v10.7 or later; Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later; 32-bit edition of Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8; or Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation).