My iBook G4 stopped streaming iTunes radio

Really? Apple Support has no idea? Sheesh. There's dozens of posts here about radio no longer working on older Macs and that's the one thing in common -- they are all running old iTunes. Of course Apple hasn't made any official statement (apparently not even internally) about discontinuing stream links for older iTunes, but if you are running an older version it doesn't work but it apparently does for newer versions. I wouldn't rely upon it coming back, but who knows? Don't expect a statement from Apple either way, and my experience with support staff is they really only know about things running current software (they cannot fathom anybody running anything older) on hardware that is less than 4 years old. Frankly I bet half of them were still in grade school when your G4 came off the line. Apple is very innovative and forward looking but with the downside that anything more than a few years old is best abandoned and that is likely the case with the iTunes version you are running. I run iTunes 7.5 and both the stream links and iTunes Store stopped working several years ago, so now it's your turn.

The same issue with Leopard 10.5.8 running the last supported (vintage) iTunes player with internet radio, here; in that the hardware does not matter, and since early March (this year) the Radio no longer loads stations and so there is nothing to stream from the different lists of music types.

So, my first-edition MacBook1.1 13" 1.83GHz coreduo has the same problem as my mid-2005 iBookG4 12" 1.33GHz, and Late 2005 Mini G4 1.5GHz; all run Leopard OS X 10.5.8. The Intel-based MacBook1.1 has a means of using later iTunes Radio (or try to) with Snow Leopard upgrade afforded the hardware design.

Other users had suggested to look online to get the URLs of radio stations who offer streaming audio for free and get that web address, manually enter it into the iTunes player (in specified place, so it looks for it online) to return to some limited use of the iTunes internet Radio. And I had read of a few workarounds to attempt to connect to a server that may/may not support a stream. Or at least look into a server where one could get URLs to manually load one at a time into iTunes Radio player. Not sure how or if it would save them, and have not tried this.

In a few locations across the globe, vintage iTunes radio will

still sort of work. Guess it depends on the server support.

Mine have iTunes 10.6.3 in Leopard 10.5.8.

When I had unlimited ADSL internet, w/ no broadcast radio music

the ability to leave internet stream on something all the time was

a great deal, in that I used iTunes Radio to test the ISP most the

time and was an unpaid beta tester at high retail cost, since I

could spot issues before their system failed. They were unwilling

to accept troubleshooting suggestions to prove my point, until

after they had major server failures and long outages. Now I am

stuck with a poor overpriced cable provider with a bundled kit.

Good luck with any attempts to restore partial use of iTunes Radio. 🙂

Radio tuner service has been restored to iTunes 10.6.3! I tmight even be slightly improved, seems there are more 128k stations and the genre list will display the number of streams in it.

There has been a change, so far untested beyond loading the iTunes Radio stations,

in that now 8,432 Streams have loaded. Have not listened to anything, and this is

on a G4 Mini 1.5GHz with Leopard 10.5.8, and iTunes 10.6.3...

Hopefully the fix, stick, - & works. 🙂