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Most of my friends are (were?) on Rdio. I liked it to a point, until the music library I'd built was suddenly cut in half because reasons? Reasons pertaining to
by oddevan 11y ago
Most of my friends are (were?) on Rdio. I liked it to a point, until the music library I'd built was suddenly cut in half because reasons? Reasons pertaining to exclusivity arrangements with other services, or label agreements expiring, or whatever. But basically, reasons.
It's enough to turn me off of cloud-based music services entirely, honestly. I'm only considering possibly ever subscribing to Apple Music because they let you upload tracks you own that they don't have. I hear Google Music does the same thing? Or maybe I'll finally set up that Plex server...
- creeble 11y agoSo true. I remember the first time I brought up an old-ish Spotify playlist, only to discover that all of the songs were now unplayable, with no explanation. All of the songs still existed on the service, but those IDs just expired for some reason. Same happened on Rdio from time to time. Presumably this is a record company issue, not one endemic to any particular service. But as much I wanted to love Rdio, the app (Android in particular) had many bugs that would cause it to crash or lock up, and some that would send my network connection off into the weeds, requiring (at least) an airplane-mode reset. And despite the claims of "elegant, groundbreaking", what music app has Search on slide-out besides Rdio? With results that appear in a 1/3-size screen? Time to figure out how to get my playlists over to Rhapsody, the Little Music Service That Could.
- marssaxman 11y agoIt's really nice having all the music you like safely stashed away on a local hard drive, no cloud anything, where there's no chance that any future copyright-mafia skullduggery can take it away from you.