WWDC News: Apple Adds Siri Access To 100K Radio Streams In iOS 13 - All Access Music Group

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APPLE's annual WORLDWIDE DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE is underway in SAN JOSE and while ALL ACCESS will re-cap all of the highlights later when the presentation concludes, one noticeable advancement bears immediate notice. While listing all the improvements in the iOS system and the iPHONE, a presenter cited one new feature:

"Today we're introducing live radio, so you can ask SIRI to play stations from 100,000 radio stations."

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Translation: Among the features in iOS13 is the ability for iOS device users to call up audio streams from over 100,000 radio stations via Siri voice command. The iPHONE voice command platform will access streams from iHEARTMEDIA’s iHEARTRADIO, ENTERCOM’s RADIO.COM, and TUNEIN.

End Of The iTunes Era

But that was far from the only big news of the day. APPLE also confirmed the demise of iTUNES in favor of separate music, podcast, and TV apps for MAC OS 10.15, and the podcast app will include search via machine learning to allow users to search the contents of podcasts for specific content. The search capability echoes GOOGLE's initiative to index podcasts for searching.

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