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iTunes Radio stops after one song

Just downloaded 11.1 and started a new radio station. I continued adding bands while Radio played two songs from the original band. The third song played from a different band and when it was done, so was iTunes. The station just stopped with the Play control available. I clicked it and got a Nissan commercial followed by the third song (that just played). I hit skip. iTunes stopped again. I quit iTunes and relaunched. Went back to the station, hit play and got that same third song. I let it play out and it stopped again. Can't seem to do anything else.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Sep 18, 2013 11:02 AM

71 replies

KodiacH

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2 points

Sep 19, 2013 12:55 PM in response to bird66

There is a feedback button within iTunes. I have already submitted my feedback.

Sep 19, 2013 12:56 PM in response to Marc Hawkins1

Update on mine.

For some reason mine just started working. Not sure why.

So far so good.

KodiacH

Level 1

2 points

Sep 19, 2013 12:58 PM in response to Marc Hawkins1

So is mine. It just out of nowhere started to work!

bluehz

Level 1

22 points

Sep 19, 2013 3:19 PM in response to Unused Name

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!

Sep 19, 2013 5:05 PM in response to Unused Name

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.

Sep 20, 2013 7:06 AM in response to Unused Name

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.

Unused Name Author

Level 1

2 points

Sep 20, 2013 7:58 AM in response to Cody R. Leser

Yep, I truly belive this is the way to go as it solved my original problem and seems to be working for others: cut your artist list down to 10 or below. There are a couple of other quirks with Radio, but livable. I hope Apple either fixes this issue or straight out limits the artist list to 10.

Sep 20, 2013 1:31 PM in response to Unused Name

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.

Ty_donn

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0 points

Sep 20, 2013 3:04 PM in response to Unused Name

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...

Sep 21, 2013 1:21 PM in response to KodiacH

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.

Sep 23, 2013 5:05 PM in response to FutbolCoach

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.

Sep 25, 2013 2:23 PM in response to Unused Name

Same problem here, but two of my three stations it has happened to only have one artist. The other station has 4 artists. If I delete the station and then recreate it with the same artist, it works again for a while. Like Tommyvercetti mentioned, it does appear to be somehow related to a weak connection (for me it's sometimes when I'm running an offsite backup).

Unused Name Author

Level 1

2 points

Sep 25, 2013 2:31 PM in response to Unused Name

Well, even though I have changed absolutley nothing, my station reached a song today (one it had played before, I believe) then stopped. I hit play, it thinks, it stops. I quit iTunes, delete more artists, hit play, it thinks, it stops. Looks like Radio is a bust for me. I'll just stick to the more processor intensive browser options. Really disappointed, as I was enjoying it.

Sep 28, 2013 3:04 PM in response to FutbolCoach

Update: after updating the phone I discovered that there was an update for Apple TV as well: which includes the iRadio (or iTunes radio, or whatever it's called). It works fine from a technical perspective, but I believe that the artistic spectrum for a given station parameter - artist, song, etc - is still lagging. Also, I say pro forma, I can detect no user advantage to the iOS 7 updates, so assume that it was for the benefit of Apple Inc rather than their customers. I expect more of the same in the future.

Sep 28, 2013 4:01 PM in response to FutbolCoach

Very good point.

iTunes Radio stops after one song