Itunes Radio "My Stations" won't play

I have the same problem, only I only got about 1 hour of play before it died. Apple help please!

I listened for several hours at first, but now it won't start. I have the same problem with that station on my iPhone as well.

I'm having this same problem. Have built four stations and now one of them will not play. Others seem OK. Any solutions Apple?

Same issue. My personal station played as I created it, and as I added songs and artists to it, but then once created when I went back to play it fails every time.

Clicking Play changes the icon briefly to "Pause" indicating playback for 1 second, then it reverts to the Play icon. Total failure.

I found something elsewhere while hunting around (http://forums.imore.com/ios-7/262288-itunes-radio-custom-stations-bug.html). Apparently, if you add too many "similar" artists you add will crap out the custom station. I deleted down to 13 "similar" artists and it works now.

Lame, but better than nothing.

Good luck.

I just started using IRadio and I'm going back to Pandora. The music selection is all over the place. I had Neil Sedaka pop up on my French Canadian music station.

Thank you NormalGuy!

That was the ticket! I cut down to 15 (OOH! I snuck in a bonus artist or two!) and my personal station "WBAZ" is now playing. Really, REALLY dumb limitation, and not documented anywhere I can find.

If it is a true "feature" and not a bug, why is there no "You have added the maximum number of artists to your station" warning/error dialog? This is a version 0.9 problem on a released product--not good.

13 artist limit was the issue I was having. Annoying, and I wish the software would at least give you a warning dialog or something like that.

I added 4 artists and it stopped playing. No error message, no info at all I see the station loading then nothing what gives??? I guess I have to stay with Pandora, a brialliant product I might add.

I discovered how to fix my problem. In my case I didn't have enough similar artists. My main artist is a unheard of band with two albums on itunes. Apparently, I needed to add other artists to this radio station so iTunes radio can access more songs to play. Adding more popular, but "similar" bands and it seems to work fine now.

I think the issue has less to do with how many artists/songs in your "more like this" category and more to do with how many songs in your genre are available. I created two stations, one for J-pop and one for '80s music. The '80s station plays whenever I want, no problems. I've added a bunch of artists and songs to the "more like this" section, and still no problem. The J-pop station is the opposite. I can play it for about 90 minutes or so if I don't add a single artist or song to the "more like this" category. If I add anything to that category, it cuts off sooner. I tried totally deleting and re-creating the J-pop station, and I noticed iTunes played the exact same songs in almost the exact same order. I think that means iTunes doesn't have enough songs available in that category to keep the station going. The more I narrow the possible playlist, the fewer songs available to play.

That's just my theory anyway. And, I think it's why some stations play fine and others don't. It probably depends on the iTunes music library in that category. I also noticed that just because an artist is available for purchase in that category does not mean it's available to play in iTunes Radio.