So what happened to iTunes Radio?

Are you using the correct version of iTunes, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5848 as iTunes Radio still works fine for me with iTunes 11.1+

While it might be easy to blame Apple, the issue is one of copyright law and contractural arrangements...Apple has only arranged the contracts in the US so far and is working for such in other countries. Same as with moving music and books from country to country...each country has its own laws that must be met. It is frustrating to have that issue with neighboring countries, but the laws are different and must be met in each country.

OK, let's clarify some misuse of terminology (caused by changes in how Apple themselves have referred to things) that is leading to misunderstanding: iTunes Radio and the Internet streaming are two different things.

iTunes Radio is a music streaming service operated and hosted exclusively by Apple. It's currently available only in the US and Australia, and is available only through ITunes 11.1.

Internet "radio", found in the Radio section of iTunes 10 and earlier, is different. The streams are not hosted by Apple but rather are provided by some other service. The only service Apple provides is a "tuner" that lists these streams in iTunes. Apple has apparently been having problems with the tuning server in some parts of the world, though it works in other areas. This is the problem you've been running into, and hence references to iTunes Radio above are inapplicable and made due to this confusion of terminology.

Regards.

Is there some confusion here between the terms iTunes Radio & Internet Radio? iTunes Radio is a new service launched September 18th, 2013 in the US only (ignoring glitches) and extended to Australia since February 11th, 2014. Internet Radio should work for you in the current build of iTunes. It may be that it has stopped working in your older version if there has been a change in the server hosting the station information.

tt2

Still, the bottom line is "Why didnt they say something"? I'm in Oklahoma and I've been down for three weeks! It's not a Canada thing.

Are they just going to let everyone go through the agony of wondering what the **** went wrong? Does my Airport need rebotting? Has my Airport Express gliched? Do I need to reload itunes? Does my opperating system need an upgrade? Why is everything else working like glass, but this?

It's insane to even risk it for Apple. I don't care how much it is. Where do I sign up? What do I gotta do? Why the **** would you just sneek it in there and make me jostle through all the forums just to find out that we need to upgrade our itunes? I dont care about misuse of termonology, page misuse, copyright backend contract negotiations, tuners or servers. I embrace upgrades most of the time. Bring it!

Put it front and center!

New Itunes! Coming Next Month! And then even the courtesy, "Dont forget. Itunes radio. Only Compatable With The New Upgrade" reminder, the weekend before.

Be proud of your business angles and your end product. I'm an Apple guy for a reason. Because it's the best!

So Apple. Put it together. Handle everything that needs to be handled, internaly. Let me know how much it is and for God sakes... Let us all know upfront when It's coming before we all go through the trama of thinking somethings is broke or down or offline!

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

We're all just fellow users here.

And no you don't need an upgrade to iTunes. Again, iTunes Radio and the older Internet radio streams, which are what the OP was asking about, are completley different.

Older versions of itunes are still here & the streaming radio stations didn't go away.

There is no good reason that it no longer works. (intentionally broken or not fixed)

I can go to live 365 or others and get radio in a web browser.

Where's Steve ? grrrr.....

I should add - any other versions - many different computers at different locations all do not work.

There should have been an official statement if service was discontinued.

Internet Radio is working just fine here. The services are all hosted by third parties. Typically any of the stations can also be played directly from their respective web sites without involving iTunes so it isn't like Apple can "break" the service and they clearly haven't removed the feature. What station is it that you cannot access? If you copy the URL from a website will iTunes open the stream as shown in PH12332: iTunes 11 for Windows: Listen to Internet broadcasts - Connect to an Internet broadcast?

tt2

Thanks, it's really an issue of not being able to find it for everyone. Just do like turingtest2 says, MUSIC>INTERNET.

I used to hit the "radio" button in iTunes and get a list of thousands of radio stations to chose from. Now, I hit the same button and I get some wonky collection of crappy tunes selected by some wanker(s)? The range of "stations" is unsatisfactory. I would like to listen to French radio. I would like to hear what is playing in Germany or Japan. This is not possible in the "radio" that iTunes offers, now. The radio streams were a really neat feature that brought the world's REAL music into your computer. Now it's a vastly scaled-down, poorly categorized ramshackle of supposedly "curated" music. Sad. Really sad. REALLY really sad.

Assuming that you're using iTunes 12, click the 3 dots in the tool bar, then enable Internet Radio from the list. Now click the icon of the radio mast. This is Internet Radio, as opposed to iTunes Radio, and should be the familiar feature that you're looking for.

tt2

Thanks for the input! I am using iTunes 11.4. Maybe that is why I don't see the three dots in the toolbar? I did, though, find an "internet" box to click in the general preferences menu, and the "internet" bubble is now one of the choices along the top menu bar (along with "Radio", "Songs", "Albums", and "artist", etc.), so I will give that a go in the morning!

Thanks!