iRATE radio provides users with a powerful new way
to find and download free, legal music online.
Users rate tracks based on their tastes. The iRATE
server then selects other tracks to send to the
user from a database of over 50,000 freely
downloadable songs by correlating the user's
ratings with other users', and finding people with
similar tastes. Unlike streaming audio, iRATE
saves the tracks to the user's hard drive. This
means that playback is smoother, without the
typical problems associated with streaming media,
such as high bandwidth usage.
