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Apple makes changes to internet station listings on iTunes...

R

radiobop

Effective 8/25/09, Apple now allows stations to list only one bitrate under one genre per station...previously you could list unlimited bitrate streams under two genres. Additionally, Apple is not accepting any new station listings until after September but will be adding support for AAC+ stations. For existing stations, Apple apparently deleted all but the highest bitrate listed and kept the originally requested primary genre.

This is sucky for stations like ROOTSofROCK.US that cross genres...in our case playing pop, country, R&B, blues, folk and Americana. Also, many foreign and in-office listeners are limited to 24k/32k dial up streams and now they won't find us in iTunes...too bad we did not get advance notice so we could apprise listeners of the changes.
 
FINALLY! It's about time Apple starts encoding AAC+! It will surely help out the people who want to put a flash player for their website but also want to go on iTunes. Great move...
 
We're not sure if it will just AAC or AAC+!!! The email reply that someone received hinted at AAC but didn't show the +. We know iTunes uses AAC for its audio file format. Quicktime on iPhone supports AAC.

That said, I must test Quicktime X on Snow Leopard!
 
radiobop said:
will be adding support for AAC+ stations.
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Is this effective 8/25 as well? Is it truly AAC+ seems to be some doubt here... Thanks for clarifying!
 
It's about time! Same thing with windows media, they needed to clean out crap after years of letting any crap ass station list itself 5 million times and clog the tuner.

If anyone remembers back to about 2003 or so back when the radio tuner didn't have a million stations in it I sure do. Could pull thousands of listeners easily, more than I could afford at the time so you never know how high it would have gone. Now I can't even get 100 on the same station thanks to all that garbage filling it up. Let's hope they start actually listening to the stations and turning some of the garbage ones away.
 
gunterm said:
It's about time! Same thing with windows media, they needed to clean out crap after years of letting any crap ass station list itself 5 million times and clog the tuner.

If anyone remembers back to about 2003 or so back when the radio tuner didn't have a million stations in it I sure do. Could pull thousands of listeners easily, more than I could afford at the time so you never know how high it would have gone. Now I can't even get 100 on the same station thanks to all that garbage filling it up. Let's hope they start actually listening to the stations and turning some of the garbage ones away.
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I remember those days, took eight months to get a listing and cost me a fortune. I actually stopped the whole station due to costs, but came back a couple of months later when they had re-orged the list and now costs have been manageable. Losing my 24k listing dumped about 20% of my audience who used the low speeds due to corporate stuff etc. Shame it isn't like Windows Media Guide that has a low and a high setting for the stations but it's all fun. Keeps my costs down....

Cheers, Richard
 
The new version of iTunes 9.0 is streaming AAC stations, mainly CBS Radio stations on the tuner. It's great to hear KROQ on iTunes now because the stream quality is so much better!
 
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