Apple updated iTunes Festival mobile app , designed to broadcast live concerts from the main site eponymous music festival. With the help of the owners iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can monitor the performances of artists in real time, as well as watch recordings of concerts.
On Monday morning, Apple announced that Maroon 5, Pharrell Williams, Beck, Sam Smith, Blondie, Kylie, David Guetta, 5 Seconds of Summer, Calvin Harris, Chrissie Hynde and many other famous artists of the number will be headlining the iTunes Festival 2014 in London.Returning to the UK the eighth consecutive year, the festival will include more than 60 concerts throughout September at the legendary site Roundhouse. Tickets are free only among winners.
"London iTunes Festival returns with an incredible line-apom of world-class artists and new artists - said Eddy Cue, senior vice president of Apple's Internet services and software. - Live Festival concerts represent the best in iTunes, and with great pleasure that we offer users the opportunity to visit the store for them in Roundhouse, and millions of people around the world - free to watch their broadcasts. "
App for iOS-devices can monitor updates schedules and get detailed information about the iTunes Festival and tickets. The concerts will be broadcast live. Performance starts Moscow time - late at night or early morning. But for those who can not see them online, the application will be available to record.
According to Apple, since the opening of the first festival in iTunes London's Institute of Contemporary Art in 2007, more than 430 artists performed in front of more than 430,000 fans, and tens of millions of viewers watched the online broadcast of concerts in real time and recorded. On stage iTunes Festival, held for the eighth year in a row, were Adele, Coldplay, Elton John, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Muse, Sir Paul McCartney and many other musicians.