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Why the hate for Beats 1?
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DJ's talk, that's their job. If you don't like talking, I think you're better off playing your own playlists on Apple Music.
Agree completely. This sort of stuff should be front and centre in Radio section of the app. If they did that, with better schedule info, and the option to listen again to whole shows that would be a big improvement.
I'm pretty shocked at the people claiming Beats1 is all hip hop! I'm wondering if we are listening to the same Beats1. I Was JUST talking to my friend yesterday about how they don't play much hip hop and all, and the hip hop shows were a nice addition by giving that genre some air play. I've heard MOSTLY indie stuff... I've already discovered more new bands/songs I now love in the past week than I have in the past year before Beats1. So far, Zane Lowe's show is by far my favorite, but really I haven't heard a show Ive completely hated.
We agree it's a first release and we both expect it to get better down the line.
But are you seriously defending AM's social networking by saying you can share playlists. That's not very social -- that's a one-way push. It's like email without even being able to get a reply! Social is about rapid, free-flowing, automatic connections. Social is easily connecting with friends, automatically seeing what playlists they are creating, automatically seeing what bands and songs they love, how about some playlists created that blend what my friends like with what Apple is suggesting, etc. Apple's always had a tough time with this so let's hope they get some good energy behind it!
As I said, it's a start, I can share playlists, ones I find and ones I make. The only thing really missing is being able to follow friends, like you can follow artists/curators. Seeing what you can already do with Connect, I expect them to allow following friends to follow quickly, that will cover what you are suggesting. They're not going to have everything right out of the gate....
If they are gonna copy the BBC Radio 1 format, they may eventually have prior shows/interviews available on-demand for x amount of time. I guess they are still testing the waters with everything now.
Looks like they have a YouTube channel - they have uploaded the interviews with Eminem and Ed Sheeran.
I discovered by accident that if you tap on the main Beats 1 banner (other than the play now button) on the iPad you do actually go to generic Beats 1 page with a bit of info - current show, featured shows and some schedules.
But still not sure how you get to that page in iTunes.
Which kind of feels like its almost there - so for example tap on Zane's show and it has a short bio along with playlists from the shows and his connect feed. If that page had past shows to listen again to, and when his next shows were on with a bit of info that would be much better.
Giving people the option to listen to a show again, or just the playlist if people don't like all the talking would cover all bases.
I discovered by accident that if you tap on the main Beats 1 banner (other than the play now button) on the iPad you do actually go to generic Beats 1 page with a bit of info - current show, featured shows and some schedules.
But still not sure how you get to that page in iTunes.
Which kind of feels like its almost there - so for example tap on Zane's show and it has a short bio along with playlists from the shows and his connect feed. If that page had past shows to listen again to, and when his next shows were on with a bit of info that would be much better.
Giving people the option to listen to a show again, or just the playlist if people don't like all the talking would cover all bases.
It is almost always hip hop for me. I tuned in Saturday night thinking that they will be playing live club music but no hip hop. I rather also not listen to garbage stations like Hot 97 in NYC that play hip hop even Saturday night.
Thanks - I'm not alone with the hiphop only feeling.
Edit: Is it perhaps a question of time? Does german primetime just hit the hip hop blocks?
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You missed this then. No hip hop in Elton John's show.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/playlist/elton-john-july-6-2015/idpl.4c856d0b83524b5980a37955810946f5
Julie Adenuga's show last night had a mix of stuff. Some Chemical Brothers (electronic), The Foals(Alternative), Wolf Alice (Alternative), DJ Marky (Dance/Drum&Bass), yes a couple of hip hop, oh and Baz Luhrmann but still, quite a mix.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/playlis...-1-july/idpl.a4db01c2fc79451282625cf4cf181f38
Look at Zane's show from today, only 3 Hip Hop songs out of 14m that's only 21%.....
Zane Lowe on Beats 1: July 7, 2015
St Vincent's Mixtape Delivery Service also had no Hip Hop at all...
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Personally, I think it's because people went in without understanding what Beats 1 was meant to be.
So what is it meant to be? Enlighten us
If you listened to radio in the 90's... that's it. Seriously, it's DJs playing songs they think people will like and interviews and everything that sadly people have moved away from. So many responses I've read equate to "but they don't play music I like" or "the DJ keeps talking" without getting the basic idea of the station itself. If they just want to hear the music they like, Apple Music has stations with just songs based on either a song or an artist or an album.
You're saying that radio stations in Germany had no DJ's talking, doing interviews or anything?! I call shenanigans.
German radios normally play what the listeners want not the DJs. Listening to what a DJ chooses is a weird concept for me.