I have an iTunes Match subscription and iTunes Radio, but I am still receiving commercial advertisements on iTunes Radio. Why?

I wanted to thank you for your post. I was just checking out iTunes Match/Radio (initially thought it looked super cool) and was providing some others with advice on it. This thread along with many others on the Apple site has convinced me to definitely wait on this product. Truly NOT ready for prime time. This is Apple? What...happened???

Ok I just had the same ad pop up out of the blue. Seems that after the last update to itunes that it turned off match. I went in and reenabled it in the store pull down. It is now running match and gathering information. Kind of a pain but so far no more leaf ad.

@ardee123

I see no problems with iTunes Radio - the above discussion is lengthy but the bottom line is that IT WORKS as intended - as long as you "turn on" iTunes Match on the specific computer/device you want to use it with.

However, ardee123, you may still want to keep Pandora if you want to use it on more than 10 devices - unlike Pandora, Apple chose to restrict the service to 10 devices that can share music via iTunes Match/iCloud... and that is generous. It is also just good business.

I have used both ITunes Radio and Pandora - and I prefer the breadth of the music mix on iTunes Radio... it is a personal preference thing.

Turning on iTunes Match on my iPhone is problematic. I have tried it, and it works most of the time. But it doesn't work often enough to compell me not to enable it. THere are issues with songs that were not sync'd before you turn it on. Basically you have to stream those, which fails when you don't have good connectivity. Also, some business block this traffic at the firewall. If I have to think about whether a song is on the device cache or not, the thing is not worth the trouble. I keep iTunes match for the ability to save my music to the cloud, more or less, as a back up copy of my library updated automatically.

Having iTunes Radio tied to this feature doesn't make sense to me. If you are subcriber to iTunes Match, they should just authenticate that, and play the radio streams. I don't think Apple is motivated to make iTunes Radio all that good because it is likely to cannibalize the cash cow of their iTunes music sales. That's my opinion anyway.

I maintain a Slacker subscription for like four bucks a month. Much better option for radio for me.

MaxumisToo wrote:

I keep iTunes match for the ability to save my music to the cloud, more or less, as a back up copy of my library updated automatically.

Read this: FAQ: Why iTunes Match Can Not Be Used as a Backup

Well, I also use Carbonite to backup my stuff as well, which is better than a local backup which I have too. And I've used Amazon Cloud Player to upload the same library. ****, I still feel compelled to buy physical CDs, just so I am not locked into a dead format. So, I am paranoid and I have mutliple backups. I get the logic that iTunes Match may "disapear" one day. But,back to the topic at hand, the fact that you have to turn it on to listen to the radio, still doesn't make sense.