Work around for radio tuner service not working

Thats a good work around for the problem that iTunes seem to have deliberately made for some dedicated Mac users, thank you GT.🙂

But they have taken away some of the magic of searching for new internet radio stations via iTunes.

Harrbee

I'm glad to hear that I'm not crazy and that something has changed with Apple. Instead of radio stations with iTunes, I get the error message about my iTunes radio tuning not working. Very sad. I think I failed to get the official notice that Apple was closing down this service.

In the meantime, one keeps getting continual hype about how Apple is doing so much to connect us . . . and then they close down the access to radio stations for older versions of iTunes.

Indeed as Harrbee wrote, they have taken away some of the magic. Apple may respond by restoring radio tuning but as someone cautioned recently, you may use Apple but never think of Apple as your friend.

Christopher B

HI GT!

One more question, when you have a minute.

I selected and downloaded an ".m3u" file which opened in iTunes w/o any question as to which app. to open it in....and that file shows up at the bottom of the playlist column as you described.....however, while I was able to select and download a second file for the other station that I wanted to add, it will only show up in the playlists if I double click on it.......to get the first station to play, I have to select the file from the desktop.......it seems that I can only access one or the other from iTunes..........otherwise, I have to selected the desktop file to get it to play thru itunes...

I tried adding playlists to the left hand coloumn but, again, it's select one or the other from within iTunes.....also not "import" commands in iTunes are visible....

I am wayyy ahead now than I was before BUT if any of this makes sense to you, please let me know.....and, just for curiosity, may I ask where in the US you are located?...if you're in the US, that is.......just trying to get a sense of the world.....ha ha ha. I'm in NH!

Thanks, GT.....still a big help to me, even if this is as far as I can get!

That work around does help but what to do with first gen AppleTV? AirFoil works but it's a lot of work to go through all those steps of both the computer and AppleTV

Ohhhh....that explains EVERYTHING!

What a bunch of bums for doing this if it's the reason that the internet radio stopped........I wonder if the Lion OS version will soon also fail........

I never thought that you'd be in the Russian Georgia.........ha ha ha. Wow, lived next to Jobs? You're tangentially famous!

Thanks again, GT!!!

Steve

15 miles IS "next door" in my book.........I would think that if you really lived adjacent to Steve Jobs, you'd not have moved away from CA.........probably.

I'm going to try to trash my iTunes pref file to see if that addresses the dialog box that you mentioned.....can't hurt since iTunes would just create a new pref. file the next time in opens........

Thanks for staying with me on this....at ;east I can listen to radio again off the box........and, if I'm lucky, I'll be able to get the Leopard install and then add abit or RAM.

The G5 Dual is only worth $100 or so used and I might as well just keep it running even when I do upgrade to a new MacMini.........almost not worth trying to start a new acctg. appl. on the mini if Quciken still runs on the G5......

Thank you so very much, GT...if I succeed in getting both stations in the G5, I'll let you know for sure but I'll take a 50% success over a 100& failure any day of the week!

Steve

Thank you so much. We can have some communication problems out here at the end of the wire. Thought my lack of radio was at my end. I really appreciate your guidance in returning the far-reaching connection of free radio. No excuse for this to have been dropped my mother-corp. My big old aluminum box supports a small suite of software that does all I ask or expect for my work. When something nice comes free, and in this case, free again it's very nice.

Hey, all

I contacted Topher Kessler, the MacFixIt correspondent at CNET, about this issue.

He tells me the radio internect connection still works on his array of Macs. He guided me through several rounds of troubleshooting with my Titantium G4 PowerBook. However, none of this safe booting, etc. restored the internect connection. I continued to get and still the internet connection error message.

Which leaves the actual solution or diagnosis up in the air. My workaround has been to select the individual stations I'm interested in from the Internet and load those into my iTumes playlist. I don't have the world quite at my fingertips as before but at least I've got KCRW back. (To myself, make a note to track down that French electronica station you liked so much.)

I suppose the next step to satisfy my curiosity is to make the trek to my closest Apple Store and raise the issue there. If I learn anything new, I'll respond again.

Meanwhile . . . quien sabe?

Christopher B

GT349,

a big thank from Athens, Greece, about for your help.

A week ago I started to use also a MBP 17' (PPC G4, 1.33GH, Leopard 10.5.8)

After your information I feel realy happy: my favorite internet radios are connected to iTunes (10.6.3)

Thanks again.

I've got the same problem, with a wrinkle. iTunes trys to update the radio streams and locks into a loop that keeps bringing up the error message. I don't actually use the radio section at all. I'd like to disable the automatic updating.