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Not sure if Rdio's been smoted. I mean, I can get any song I want at any time on any device with rdio for a low monthly price. iTunes is still charging me to ow

by cjoh 15y ago

Not sure if Rdio's been smoted. I mean, I can get any song I want at any time on any device with rdio for a low monthly price. iTunes is still charging me to own songs, and my selection is still bound by the storage capacity of my device. RDio is still a much better option than iTunes, Google Music or the Amazon music locker, IMO.

tptacek 15y ago
Rdio is still a great deal if you're the kind of person who listens to Yeasayer or Joan As Police Woman. It is no longer as good a deal for the kind of person who listens to Fleetwood Mac and Lady Gaga. The problem is, there are way more of the latter than the former. More importantly, Rdio already had a lot of noise it had to spend money to cut through. What happens to their cost of customer acquisition after iCloud and iTunes Match?
- cjoh 15y ago
  I just don't see how they're remotely close to the same thing. But opinions are opinions -- Rdio combines the ease of discovery of a service like Pandora with the selection of a decent music store. And that it can locally cache songs on a device means, well, why would I ever buy songs on iTunes again. Granted, I have terrible taste in music (TERRIBLE), and maybe somebody who is a bit more sophisticated will have a better experience with iTunes. For me though, Rdio answers the desire: I can listen to any song I want wherever I want whenever I want, with one flat monthly fee. iTunes can't do that. With iTunes, I can listen to a song I want, between 5-20 minutes from now, unless I've purchased it already. And synced it. Cloud or computer, what's dumb about apple's solution is that as far as I know, they haven't taken the sync out of the equation. You're just syncing with the cloud rather than your computer.
  - tptacek 15y ago
    As a mostly-satisfied Rdio subscriber, I'm happy to be wrong about this, but I think Apple just put a shotgun blast through 80% of the "cloud music" market. I think people who really see value in getting instant access to any music every year is a small subset of the whole digital music market.
MatthewB 15y ago
True. Streaming is great and all but I wanted a monthly fee for all music...not a yearly fee to stream music I already have and/or purchase.
- GBond 15y ago
  Spotify and Mog Music does this now
Luz 15y ago
3Months Rdio User: What I hate about rdio is music disappearance. License changes. Hopefully apple has a stronger relationship and a full song won't go 30 seconds as fast as rdio's does

by cjoh 15y ago

tptacek 15y ago

Rdio is still a great deal if you're the kind of person who listens to Yeasayer or Joan As Police Woman. It is no longer as good a deal for the kind of person who listens to Fleetwood Mac and Lady Gaga. The problem is, there are way more of the latter than the former. More importantly, Rdio already had a lot of noise it had to spend money to cut through. What happens to their cost of customer acquisition after iCloud and iTunes Match?

cjoh 15y ago
I just don't see how they're remotely close to the same thing. But opinions are opinions -- Rdio combines the ease of discovery of a service like Pandora with the selection of a decent music store. And that it can locally cache songs on a device means, well, why would I ever buy songs on iTunes again. Granted, I have terrible taste in music (TERRIBLE), and maybe somebody who is a bit more sophisticated will have a better experience with iTunes. For me though, Rdio answers the desire: I can listen to any song I want wherever I want whenever I want, with one flat monthly fee. iTunes can't do that. With iTunes, I can listen to a song I want, between 5-20 minutes from now, unless I've purchased it already. And synced it. Cloud or computer, what's dumb about apple's solution is that as far as I know, they haven't taken the sync out of the equation. You're just syncing with the cloud rather than your computer.
- tptacek 15y ago
  As a mostly-satisfied Rdio subscriber, I'm happy to be wrong about this, but I think Apple just put a shotgun blast through 80% of the "cloud music" market. I think people who really see value in getting instant access to any music every year is a small subset of the whole digital music market.

MatthewB 15y ago

True. Streaming is great and all but I wanted a monthly fee for all music...not a yearly fee to stream music I already have and/or purchase.

GBond 15y ago
Spotify and Mog Music does this now

Luz 15y ago

3Months Rdio User: What I hate about rdio is music disappearance. License changes. Hopefully apple has a stronger relationship and a full song won't go 30 seconds as fast as rdio's does