YOUltimateRadio - Free Radio On Demand!

…In my dreams. Yes, because this is another fantastic Fantasy App (#4) brought to you by Nicola Rovetta alias woccia.

I’m not so aware, and too lazy to find out, about the problems of right clearance in matter of streamed music when it comes to “on demand”.

I think that, basically, if you have a model in which the user finds the song he wants, that’s a music shop (=iTunes); but if you want to have a “Internet Radio” model, you have to stream music on a planned (maybe user generated, as playlists, but not on demand) basis and the users can’t exactly listen to the single song they want, when they want (see Last.fm) —unless you build a peer-to-peer model as Deezer or Blip.fm, where music is not resident on the streamer’s server, but it is only about aggregation.

But what if I want to build a radio where the users can choose their songs without you being sued?

Easy: welcome to YOUltimateRadio.

Imagine a radio with a huge number of channels, all streaming music simultaneously, but never the same song in the same time; I mean that all songs are streamed all the time —but never in the same time.

The user could perform a search across all channels and find the song he wants; but it’s not “on demand” music, because the radio is actually streaming the song based upon a programme schedule,… by chance :-), in that moment.

Simple!

Ehm… and what about streaming expenses, bandwidth overload, right clearance costs…? The answer is easy: I had the idea. Don’t you expect me to solve ALL the problems, don’t you? OK. So go out there and find a sponsor. Some sponsors. Lots of sponsors.