I thought it was easy enough, in the app, tap on the beats 1 image, you get the schedule and list of shows. If you tap on a show in the 'Featured Shows', you get playlists for each show, which gives you an idea of what is going to be played....
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Why the hate for Beats 1?
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I thought it was easy enough, in the app, tap on the beats 1 image, you get the schedule and list of shows. If you tap on a show in the 'Featured Shows', you get playlists for each show, which gives you an idea of what is going to be played....
Do you need to be a member of Apple Music to see these playlists? I don't get playlists there on my iPhone.
Not sure. Try this link see what happens.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/playlis...a-homme/idpl.75d79055c209401da990f830dbfcca99
You're looking in the right place? Tap on beats 1 on the Radio tab, you get the schedule, scroll down to featured shows and you can tap on one of them.
Well it gives a playlist you can't listen to.
Guess they never were prepared for people not interested in Apple Music.
It at least gives you a list of songs, to give you an idea of what music is being played. I didn't expect it to play songs if you weren't subscribed to Apple Music......
Isn't Beats 1 for getting black people and young urban people into Apple? Seriously, I though that's why they bought Beats in the first place...
Maybe other demographics will like Beats 1, but seems pretty much like club music and rap, which appeals to many young urbans and black people - at least where I live. I would prefer a mix, but then Beats isn't aiming for me IMO.
Apart from your expectations are wrong. Look at Zane Lowe's Show, Julie's show, etc. A mix of stuff, not just rap or club music.... Actually look at what you're criticising. It appears you're just judging a book by it's cover.
There is lots of rap/ hip hop. Though I know Apple is targeting the younger audience they need to bear in mind that at the end of three months, it isn't the younger audience who are more likely to open their wallets and subscribe. No one I know under 30 pays for music, ever. It's usually You Tube.
Oh and they also repeat shows. The show I was listening to this AM on my way to work was the exact same one as was on over the weekend. I had already listened to it. I don't mind making shows available online but don't repeat on the "live" station.
That!! Exactly what you said.
I decided not to renew Apple music and have almost entirely stopped tuning in beats1.
And apple music takes too much real estate UI in the music app. I'd remove connect entirely and split my music playlists and songs (last icon)
No.
This really is starting to be some sort of urban myth. Just because people keep saying it, isn't going to make it true.
Anyone who has listened to Beats 1 for any length of time can tell you this isn't true.
If you look at a few playlists, you can see it isn't true.
Or maybe some people just have a peculiarly understanding of what constitutes rap and hip hop.
I can confirm I am definitely not a young, urban black person who loves rap and hip hop.
I m not young, or urban, or black, and I don't really like rap or hip hop that much.
But I have been listening to quite a bit of Beats 1, and really like it. There are some shows I'll be more likely to tune into than others based on what I've heard, and so might reasonably expect to hear.
Imagine you lived halfway round the world, and it was 3am when it was first broadcast.
It will attract people who like al sort of genres. For those of us with more restricted taste, they either have to come up with additional beat stations or they want have is, really.
It's not that I don't like rap and an put up with a playlist in which two or three songs are rap. It's that I HATE it and consequently as soon as beats1 has one of those, I simply tune out.
So maybe the downfall for me is that the playlists are so varied that chances are I will hate a few songs so much as to make me change stations.
I think that's where I'm coming from.
I'm sure they can put up a link in the app so you can listen to it again.
It's for the other countries around the world. If the show only aired once, at a time in a country when people are asleep, what's wrong with airing it again later in the day for those people? Or the people that are working? You could make it available again later (which they should for other reasons), but it means that someone new tuning in, will hear a show they might not have heard due to sleep/work/etc.
Do you knock TV stations for repeating TV shows? Do you knock cinemas for showing a film multiple times? Do you knock sports channels for showing replays?
It's an 'live' as in 'always on' station, not necessarily every show being 'live'.
I agree a listen again function would be good, but I don't really see what the problem is.
It's not as though many people are going to be listening to it 24/7.
Plus, I thought the whole point was that it provided a collective shared experience. Which it wouldn't be for the half of the world that had to make do with the listen again feature.
I was one of the ones very critical of Beats 1 at first. Mostly because Ebro. I heard some of Zane and he was okay. Listened to the Disclosure segment and it was awesome. I think Beats 1 is okay. The music is decent, but I'm not a big fan of most of the DJ's especially Ebro. But there are so many other stations when I don't like the Beats 1 station, so not a big deal really.
Curious - why do you dislike Ebro in particular? How do you feel about Julie? Shows like Alligator Hour, The Pharmacy, etc.?
While I'm personally not interested in much of what Beats 1 happens to play today, I think it is great to see it as an experiment. One of the things I find myself missing from streaming services is a knowledgeable program host, and by that, I don't mean a "DJ" but rather someone who is truly passionate about the music they are playing and can share that with the listeners.
There are still a few channels on Sirius XM like that, such as Symphony Hall and The Loft. Here's hoping we'll see a Beats 2, 3, and so-forth, catering to more specialized tastes in music, such as Classical, Jazz, and Adult Contemporary.
There are still a few channels on Sirius XM like that, such as Symphony Hall and The Loft. Here's hoping we'll see a Beats 2, 3, and so-forth, catering to more specialized tastes in music, such as Classical, Jazz, and Adult Contemporary.
I really wanted to like Beats 1. I tried constantly to get in it. I eventually gave up after I realized the music they played just isn't my type of style. My most played songs and radio stations are Pure Pop and Pulse Pop, none of which I've heard on Beats 1 so far. I will admit it has potential to be a quality station for some people, just not for me.