Where have my iTunes Radio custom stations gone?

From the official website I got these words, hope it can help:

Create a custom station from a song, album, or artist

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:

1. Tap the More Options icon to the right of the song, album, or artist.
2. Tap Start Station.

Or just ask Siri to "Start a station from…” and then say the name of a song, album, or artist.On your Mac or PC:

1. Select any song or album. Click the More Options icon next to it.
2. Click New Station from Song, New Station from Album, or New Station from Artist.

Fine-tune your stations

While you listen to Apple Music Radio, tell us what you want to hear more of. Tap or click the heart icon or the star icon when you hear a song you love.

If you're a member of Apple Music, tap the heart icon to influence songs we suggest in the For You tab.

When you listen to an on-demand station that you created and hear a song you like, you can tap the star to tell us if you want to hear more songs like it.

Uniway, that's not the issue. We want to know why Apple decided to toss out the radio stations that we've all spent months collecting and curating! They are all gone. What's even more frustrating is that a couple of them hang out in the "recently played" section but you can no longer edit them as before by adding an artist or song manually.

It's stupid.

I agree. I have spent ages setting up stations that I like. iTunes Radio was fantastic, simply the best way to listen and discover, and now it's gone. Thanks, Apple. Can I go back to the old version please? Apple Music is NOT for me, and I will stop paying.

Further. I have not upgraded my iPhone or iPad to 8.4, and my stations are all still there, and work fine. What is it with Apple and the cloud? MobileMe was a disaster, Maps was ridiculous (better now), and now this. It's hard tom understand the logic here; if I wanted Beats, I would have paid for it. One of Apple's strengths has always been taking something that's already there and doing it right. Not this time Apple Music is a mess. It looked like a mess when they presented it at WWDC, and it's worse 'in the flesh'.

I know that,as an over 60, I am probably not in Apple's core demographic, but I should be. I am a serial early adopter, I have EVERY mac I have ever bought, starting with a Cube, and they all still run and play a part in my life. I have had 5 iPhones, the latest is a 6 Plus. But, I am NOT upgrading my IOS, I am NOT getting a sub to Apple Music and I am turning off iTunes Match.

I agree as well. I was not aware they were gonna delete all of my custom radio stations. Apple should have displayed a warning or something. Now I have to try to find the stations AGAIN. AND I'm limited to the number that will appear since they only appear in the "Recently Played" section. This *****!!!

I fixed it (temporarily at least) by reverting to iTunes 12.1. Get it from here: https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/itunes12/031-19002.20150409.9C24E/iTunes12.1.2 .dmg

Then, follow the instructions here: http://www.macworld.com/article/2839797/unhappy-with-itunes-12-heres-how-to-reve rt-to-itunes-11.html

Do it exactly as described, only substituting 12.1 for 11. Log in with your Apple ID and it's all back as it was. Doesn't take long, and works fine. I had to do the bit about removing iTunes.library.itl, but iTunes created a new one for me.

I expect that Apple will take steps to stop us using it this way, and when they do I will stop paying for iTunes Match. There is no way I will pay a subscription for what is essentially a rebadged Beats. I'll get Spotify before I do that.

Bad move, Apple. I guess you didn't learn from the MobileMe and Maps debacles.

So whilst searching because I and the same issue, I actually had to click View in the menu bar, and "show only offline music" was selected. I selected the show music from both sources online and offline, and it said my session had expired and i had to log into iTunes again with my iCloud ID, after that all my radio stations came back, etc... Sorry i can't remember the exact buttons I clicked because after logging back in with my iCloud ID all the buttons in the menu bar changed and I couldn't find the button I selected, however, it was set to view only offline music.

Something else. If you choose to do this, remember to go to Settings/App Store and uncheck the auto update box or you'll have to do it all over.

Until I upgraded to iTunes 12.2.1.16 on my Mac the other day, my old custom created radio stations were listed in the iTunes Radio Recently Played section in the Radio tab of iTunes. I don't even see a Recently Played section anymore, and for sure my custom radio stations seem to be gone. Total bummer....

Ahhhhh. OK. Closing iTunes and re-opening it added the Recently Played stations back to the top of iTunes and I now see my old stuff again. So it's clear the software still has plenty of bugs that we'll have to struggle through.....Also, still no way to delete a custom radio station like there was before. I have junk stations of my own that I want to get rid of and no way to do it. 😟

Couldn't agree more! Stupid! And the remote app is now useless also. I have outdoor speakers connected to a stereo system, and using the remote app on my iPhone or iPad I could sit outside and with the remote app (remote app controls iTunes on my PC so that my PC streams the music to my stereo via AirPlay) I could select my custom radio stations that I spend months creating. Now, with the remote app can't even select any custom radio stations at all... useless now.

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I got it. I had to go to the Account menu and choose Authorize.

Then i quit, and restarted iTunes.

Then the Recent list showed back up!

Not the point. I have around 40 custom stations and it's them I want. You can't edit 'recent' stations, and that's all they are; recent.

Switching back to 12.1 has worked for me. I hate it because I am a serial early upgrade.

I have been a band wagon apple fan since the first iPhone but this is super frustrating. I loved apple radio because I do not like main stream music and they have the most comprehensive collection. Spotify does not have the obscure artists that I love and Pandora can only come up with so many songs to match my artist of choice until it just keeps playing the same ones over and over. I was able to build some great stations that I love. But now the custom station selection menu is gone and only available on my apple tv. The list of stations are now generic main stream genre stations, which totally defeats the purpose of why I switched from spotify and pandora in the first place... I usually look forward to updates so this came as a huge let down.

Why did I update? I know better. I've been using Macs since the beginning and they are just getting further away from their roots. I might have to revert my iPhone to a back up. This update got rid of the two best features... remote and custom stations.