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Raditaz

Raditaz is an internet radio streaming music service for the web, iOS, Android and soon many other platforms. Raditaz is a free product, and users can create stations, listen to any of over 200 custom-curated Raditaz stations, and utilize Raditaz’s tagging system to personalize their stations. Unlike other streaming services, users can find stations not just based on artists, songs, and genres, but also based on tags such as (e.g. @work, @gym, #happy or @driving). Raditaz also has a location layer that enables users to listen to and share stations that are trending throughout the US. Interested in seeing what is popular in NYC or LA? Check out the explore feature and discover the latest music trends by location. Users can also share songs or stations by email, Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest. Raditaz has more than 20 million songs and an industry leading music intelligence platform for creating stations. When a user inputs the name of a specific band, artist or song, Raditaz will instantly create a station based on that musician along with similar artists. Users also have the option to add an additional 4 artists to customize a station further. You can also choose the popularity level of the artists and songs found within the station.

Licensing

Raditaz currently streams music under the statutory license for Non-Interactive Internet Streaming defined by United States Code Title 17, Section 114, enacted through the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Raditaz pays sound recording copyright holders for each performance (each track played) through Sound Exchange.# Raditaz benefits from the lower statutory rates Pandora negotiated and the Copyright Royalty Board set in 2007.#  The statutory license limits where Raditaz can stream music geographically and how Raditaz users can interact with the system. Geographic Limitation: U.S. Only

Since the statute only applies to the United States, Raditaz is not licensed stream music outside the United States. The Raditaz web site is only available to users who, based on their IP Address,# are located in the United States or one of its unincorporated organized Territories and the iOS and Android apps available only in the U.S. sections of the App Store and Google Play. Limitations of a Non-Interactive Webcaster

For Raditaz to claim the statutory license for a Webcast (internet streaming of a playlist) it must follow a set of guidlines for programming rules. In general, Raditaz cannot: allow users to skip more than six songs per hour, per station - as interpreted by some major music Labels; play tracks within one hour after a request from a user (on demand); create a playlist that only plays songs from a single artist (an artist-only playlist); or, publish the exact playlist such that a user would know the exact time when a song would play.

History

Release History

Note: iPhone version history available on AppShopper (Raditaz), Android version history partly from AppBrain (Raditaz).

Web Version History

Web doesn’t really have “versions” but, for feature sets...

2011 November 19 - beta goes Live