IRATE radio
iRATE radio downloads music tracks automatically and allows the user to rate them. It will then try to find similar tracks that match the user's taste. Image File history File links iRATE radio screenshot. ...
Information
Purpose	Music discovery
License	GNU General Public License
Programming language	Java
Platform	Java virtual machine
Leading developers by code check-ins	Anthony Jones (creator) Taras Glek Stephen Blackheath Christopher Manley Robin Sheat Brion Vibber
History and progress
First code check-in	March 26, 2003
iRATE lines of code development The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ... Java is a reflective, object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. ... A Java virtual machine or JVM is a virtual machine that runs Java byte code. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links generated from CVS statistics on 2004-09-10 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Last updated: 2004-09-10

The title of this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is iRATE radio.

iRATE radio is computer software that allows collaborative filtering of music downloads. An iRATE radio server holds a large database of music that is freely available on the World Wide Web. The client highlights music files that are under a Creative Commons license (which, depending on the license, may allow the creation of derivative works or commercial use). A computer is a device or machine for making calculations or controlling operations that are expressible in numerical or logical terms. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Collaborative filtering (CF) is the method of making automatic predictions (filtering) about the interests of a user by collecting taste information from many users (collaborating). ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide... This article is about the computer terms. ... In computing, a server is: A computer software application that carries out some task (i. ... A database is a collection of data elements (facts) stored in a computer in a systematic way, such that a computer program can consult it to answer questions. ... Graphic representation of the World Wide Web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, W3, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). ... Version 2 of Some Rights Reserved logo Some Rights reserved logo No Rights reserved logo The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share. ...

Users rate tracks that they are sent on a scale from 1 to 4. The server correlates those ratings against those of other users to find other songs that the first user might enjoy. Music files are played in a semi-random order, with the rating of the tracks factored in. The amount of files that are to be downloaded can be adjusted in the program configuration.

Due to the fact that the initial tracks downloaded are the same for each user, the average download speed for these files can sometimes become very low, leading some new users to believe that the program is malfunctioning.

There is a very similar application called Gnomoradio for the GNOME desktop environment. The programs do, however, use different protocols and are not interoperable. The folder fetched files contains automatically downloaded music. ... GNOME (for GNU Network Object Model Environment) is the name of a project to create a open source/free software computer desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. ... Interoperability can be defined in a technical way or in a broad way, taking into account social, political and organizational factors. ...

External links

• Development site
• Main site
• kuro5hin.org Interview with Anthony Jones