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Hidden 'Radio' Buttons Discovered In Apple's iOS 6.1

Posted by samzenpus on from the I'm-on-apple-radio dept.

tad001 writes "CNET is reporting 'Discovered last night within a freshly jailbroken iPad: a set of buttons and code references for "radio," a feature found in iTunes on Macs and PCs, but not on the iPad or iPhone.' ... 'The buttons hint at Apple's much-rumored radio service, a product that will let people stream music much like they do on the popular Pandora service, but with deep ties to Apple's iTunes library.' ... 'The discovery follows a high-profile jailbreak of iOS 6.1, the updated system software Apple released just last week. A team of developers came up with a tool that gives users deep system-level access to do things like install applications from third-party app stores, change the look and feel of iOS, and add new software features.'"

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  1. Pandora WTF is that who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dear Pandora Visitor,

    We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.

    We believe that you are in Canada (your IP address appears to be 96.50.23.58). If you believe we have made a mistake, we apologize and ask that you please email us.

    If you have been using Pandora, we will keep a record of your existing stations and bookmarked artists and songs, so that when we are able to launch in your country, they will be waiting for you.

    We will be notifying listeners as licensing agreements are established in individual countries. If you would like to be notified by email when Pandora is available in your country, please enter your email address below. The pace of global licensing is hard to predict, but we have the ultimate goal of being able to offer our service everywhere.

    We share your disappointment and greatly appreciate your understanding.

    Sincerely, Some quiggles

    eat my shorts I know the ropes
    So I just open this up in VLC http://205.188.215.228:8010 instead ....like I said eat my shorts.
    Same with JetFM Courtney and many others from all over the place.
    Some of the best are:
    http://145.58.33.95:8096
    http://glb-stream11.streamserver.ch/1/rsc_de/mp3_128
    And my favourite of all time that Pandora cannot even touch
    http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac

    Harrumph

    JERKS