iTunes Radio stops after one song

I'm having a very similar issue. Here's what happened to me:

I created a station from a band and began to add other bands. The first few songs played correctly. At a certain point though, after 7-10 bands had been added, it played to the end of the song and then the station stopped. I can sometimes get it to play again but it just replays the last song again and doesn't advance to any other songs.

I can create a new station which seems to play normal.

I'm guessing there's a bug that happens when adding a certain number of artists to your station.

I think I got radio working now - 6 songs in a row so far!

Somehow iTunes is tied to Safari. Try this:

1. quit iTunes
2. open Safari>Preferences>Privacy
3. click the "Details..." button under "Remove All Website Data..."
4. find "apple.com" and Remove it then click Done
5. launch iTunes and start a radio station - it should ask you for your password
6. start listening to your radio station

If that doesn't work, try removing all of your cookies and website data.

Perhaps a dumb question, but does Apple communicate anywhere what their known issues are so people aren't just left hanging wondering what is going on?

I'm using iTunes on my mac and it would only play one song per radio station and then it won't play anymore. It's hugely frustrating. I can't get it to work. It works on my iOS devices. Even if I created my own stations, it doesn't work. Does anyone have similar issues?

I just downloaded the new Itunes and was excited about iRadio - but I too have the same issue.

I created one new station and it played ONE song then stopped. I tried the default stations at the top and Katy Perys station played, but none of the others - this leads me to believe the issue it not on my end. I deleted my custom station and created it again - this time it wouldnt play anything.

I tried logging out and logging back in - but it still wont work.

Back to Pandora until this gets fixed.

Hey all,

I was having this exact same issue in iTunes on my MBP and was able to resolve it. Apparently starting iTunes radio on an iOS device using the same Apple ID will fix the problem.

iTunes Radio on my MBP played one song and then stopped working. I started iTunes Radio on my iPhone and all of a sudden it started working on my MBP.

Give it a try. Hopefully it works for you as well.

Nope. Didn't work for me. I've been using my iPad the whole morning. Tried my iPhone too. Both worked but switching back to MBP, then it stopped working. When I add stations on my MBP, I see them on my iPad. Just can't play on the mac.

I can play iTunes Radio just fine for a period of time, then it just stops playing and eventually iTunes dies. No console message. When I start it again, and play the same station - it starts the same rotation over from the beginning... Very annoying!

I had the same issue with the songs stopping. I looked and I found that I had 20 identified artists in my selection. After I paired down to 10 - the player immediately started with a new song. There is evidently a threshold for the number of artists one can add to a station.

It would be nice for some kind of validation, though.

I have the same issue on both my MBP and my iPhone 5. iTunes Radio has been working fine the last two days but today I started adding artists to an existing radio station and then it stops playing and won't start again after only one song.

Same issue here but with a twist. After cutting back # artists, I got it to play, then I added more artists in iTunes on iMac and with Apple TV. Still plays but only on those devices - not on my iPhone.

Glad to see I'm not the only one with the problem. It's very frstrating; and thank you all for the discussion, but I only have 5 artists added to that station and never have had more than 8 or 9. It doesn't seem to be artist-list related (at least not for me). I can listen to a different station for a while (an hour?) and go back to the original [faulty] station and then it works again, but still only for a little while and then stops again. And the cycle continues.

Hope it gets figured out soon; I was really looking forward to a Pandora alternative...

Thanks. I'll look. I encountered all of the above (and below) problems while trying to play Itunes Radio over ATV from a just-updated 4S phone (iOS7): works great for a maximum of two songs. After multiple attempts to kick it in gear just went back to Pandora.

Mine will crash during weak wifi and cellular connections. Also the audio stops but the stream continues often times. But the biggest issue I have is the crashing that occurs during a weak signal. It's like a cheap third party app that constantly crashes. Went back to pandora that's flawless.