GLASTONBURY, CT — (Marketwire) — 04/05/12 — Raditaz, pioneering the future of Internet radio, today announced that it has joined forces with The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform powering smarter apps across the web and devices, to deliver a new and better way for audiences to create personalized Raditaz stations, and to discover more artists and tracks within these stations. By bringing in Echo Nest data to 14M songs, Raditaz has more music and a better engine to discover music vs. the competition.
Pandora-s Achilles heel is repetition and a lack of diversity within personalized stations. By partnering with The Echo Nest, Raditaz now lets its users enjoy better personalization than on any other internet radio platform:
Users can create stations with up to 5 artists or 5 songs
Users can adjust artist and song popularity in order to refine their stations to meet their personal preferences
Users can now preview their stations to see which artists and songs will be included, and make tweaks based on personal preference
The ability to swap out artists and adjust popularity to drive new music discovery flips the Pandora model on its head, putting the personalization in the users- hands, rather than at the mercy of an algorithm driven by limited data, with access to a small pool of songs.
“This Echo Nest partnership is huge, and dramatically improves the quality of the music our users have access to, and their experience creating and listening to personalized music stations,” said Tom Brophy, Founder and CEO, Raditaz. “This integration means higher-quality stations, with better targeting, and less repetition — typically major areas of concern across the board with Internet radio platforms. We look forward to building and innovating even further with support from The Echo Nest.”
“Raditaz combines the best elements of the listening experience — discoverability, customization, tagging and sharing,” said Jim Luchesse, CEO, The Echo Nest. “By integrating with The Echo Nest-s music intelligence platform, Raditaz now also features the most powerful -music DNA- possible. We hope to deliver a great listening experience to Raditaz users worldwide.”
Raditaz is launching an updated version of its iOS app, Android app, and the web version today as well, which will all utilize the new Echo Nest integration. Users can customize stations using tags (i.e. “driving,” “working out,”), location information, ratings (“rock on” vs. “thumbs down”), artist or song selections, and popularity.
Raditaz is on the web and can be downloaded from the or the .
Raditaz is the first geo-social music streaming service for mobile phones and the web, delivering music from the cloud to Android and iOS platforms. Raditaz allows users to create stations with up to 5 artists and 5 songs, to tag stations, share stations and songs, and discover music with its mapping technology. Powered by The Echo Nest-s music intelligence platform, with over 14 million songs, users can create their own custom stations or listen to Raditaz-s set of professionally curated stations.
For more information, please visit .
CONTACT
Mike Barash
650-520-0120
You must be logged in to post a comment Login