iTunes on the mac and Internet Radio Stations

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Wednesday, 12-Oct-2016 17:33:07

Hey mac users,

I don't use iTunes that much, but now that my mac and my office are in the same place, I stream through it while I'm working.
I found Internet Radio, or iTunes Radio, I think it's Command 9 or something.
But once you select a station in the table, it says adding to library and then it won't play.
I must be doing something wrong, so if anyone uses that feature of iTunes perhaps you could shed some light on how? I realize you have to interact with a lot of things, I forget what they call that now in Sierra but it kind of sounds better how they have it. But anyhow, I'm probably missing something simple.

I'm not talking Beats1 or anything else on Apple Music, just the actual Internet radio stations.

Post 2 by Smiling Sunshine (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Friday, 14-Oct-2016 18:55:34

I haven't used this feature but I'll sure check it out. If I can figure it out, I'll post back here.

Post 3 by Smiling Sunshine (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Friday, 14-Oct-2016 21:18:39

After pressing command nine to open the Internet radio area, I interacted with the table
that has the different categories. Once I found the category I wanted, I expanded it by
using the VO andkey. Then I navigated to the station I wanted to hear and simply
pressed enter. It began to play. I did have to force quit iTunes when I was done for some
reason but perhaps that was just a strange one time issue. Anyway, I hope this was
helpful.

Post 4 by forereel (Just posting.) on Saturday, 15-Oct-2016 12:39:10

I don't use it on the Mac, but know sometimes stations aren't streaming.
That may be why they don't play.
The station you picked was off air.

Post 5 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Monday, 17-Oct-2016 12:26:25

What's the VO key you used to expand, I just used the right arrow.
I bet I screwed that up somehow.

Thanks for any help.

Post 6 by Smiling Sunshine (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Monday, 17-Oct-2016 15:31:21

I use either capslock or control option for the VO part. To expand something, hit those plus the back slash key.

Post 7 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Monday, 17-Oct-2016 16:26:46

Oh, it's the backslash I missed.
And again, thanks.