Feeling home sick when you’re abroad, need a bit of home music to cheer you up, well now you can with RAKU, Malaysia’s very own radio and music streaming service right on your smartphone,tablets or PCs. The service comes in two versions; Free and Premium. With the free version offering access to millions of international and Malaysia’s best songs, talk content and localized content.

Malaysians all over the planet can now stream millions of songs, videos, listen to more than 20 live radio stations and podcasts. They can tune into their favourite radio station, listen to home grown artistes, bands or celebrities’ playlists. So not only can listeners listen to Yuna, they can find out what Yuna listens to! In a nod to Malaysians who primarily listen to music and talk shows on their smart devices, the app will feature local community updates such as news, traffic and sports. RAKU sports a localised interface and is available in BM, English, Mandarin and Tamil.

RAKU Premium on the other hand comes with innovative features such as unlimited access to millions of tracks from a vast music catalogue, customized  playlists, radio on-demand, and other bespoke add-ons such as being able to download music to the device for listening when offline. With Premium access, you can create your own radio station and playlists and share the personalized playlist with your  friends on social media. RAKU Premium is available at RM14.90 per month for all Malaysians via the service site and on Android as well as at USD5.99 on the Apple App Store.

Local artists who have a playlist on RAKU include Noh Salleh, Tres Empre, Bittersweet, Enterprise, Man Bai, Alleycats, Dasha Logan and many more including indie bands like Paper Plane Pursuit, Pop Shuvit and Bunkface. Local DJs with playlists on the radio streaming service include Ean, Jin and RD (hitz fm), Haniff and Hani (ERA fm), and Aanantha (THR Raaga).

RAKU can be downloaded via the web at raku.my while the RAKU app can be found at the iTunes Store and Google Play.