Like iTunes Radio, you don't have control over what song you hear next, but you do get to control the type of 'station' you're listening to.

Pandora lets you create and manage up to 100 'stations' based on an artist, song or genre, and then lets you tinker with them to get exactly the feel you want. , Pandora's team of music experts have analyzed up to 450 musical characteristics of millions of songs to provide you with the best customized music experience. iTunes Radio will be available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC and or Apple TV. What's nice about the service is that you can skip tracks (hey - not every suggestion can be a winner) and, if you really love a song, each track has a 'Buy' button in the corner of the screen that will prompt an immediate download. If you pay $24.99 for an annual iTunes Match subscription, you'll be exempt from all ads. iTunes Radio is launching this fall for free for everyone, and will be supported with text and audio ads. Based on how often you listen to certain music in your iTunes library, iTunes Radio takes your tastes into account and plays tracks that it thinks you'll like. If you've never used Genius before, it's a really simple 'music discovery tool' (a key phrase for many of these music services) that can build automatic playlists and find new music based on the artists, albums and tracks you like the most. If you've been impressed with the Genius feature of iTunes, you're going to love iTunes Radio.

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