I can't possibly recommend Rdio enough. The design is simple and intuitive. State transfers nicely between devices.<p>Even little things are pleasantly surprising. If I have my laptop hooked up to speakers at a party playing through Rdio, I can change the song from my phone.<p>The only thing it doesn't have that I'd like is Grooveshark-esque queue building. Every music player could just lift Grooveshark's queueing system wholesale and everyone would be much happier.
Must be in response to Spotify's similar policy change: <a href="http://news.spotify.com/uk/2014/01/15/no-more-time-limits-on-spotify-freeyourmusic/" rel="nofollow">http://news.spotify.com/uk/2014/01/15/no-more-time-limits-on...</a>
Should I be worried about Rdio? I am happy to pay Rdio a relative pittance for continued access to music. I'm less happy if they're in a tailspin that is going to destroy the quality of their catalog.
Rdio, <i>please</i> release your streaming quality figures. I'll return as a customer, I promise - please just be more transparent about this sort of thing.<p>The reason I say this is because the quality is noticeably worse than Spotify, and I feel they won't release the numbers because they know they can't compete.<p>I just want some transparency. The UI and experience is beautiful, but the quality is lacking.
Just signed up. A couple of weird issues, I was presented with people to follow. I had no idea who these people were, and wondered what it meant to follow them. I managed to skip that step. Then I couldn't find a search box to find any artists or songs to play. It was buried down the bottom left of the page. I then typed in an artist, then clicked on an album, and got some music. Then the UI flipped, with a nice big search on top.<p>Took me a while to find out what a free, unsubscribed account was.<p>The design is really washed out. Very lightweight grey fonts that are very difficult to read. It's all a bit white and bright. Stylbot for Chrome helps a little there as there aren't any user settings to change the colour scheme.<p>Oh some mystery meat navigation, click on the bottom bar to bring up the current playlist. Actually you have to do quite a bit of click experimentation, to find out what the icons do. Would be nice to have some hover tips.<p>Oh and you can scroll the playlist, it's not at all obvious!<p>Gripes aside, quite nice. Will see how I get on with it.
Having been a Spotify premium subscriber for over 2 years, I've just decided to switch to Rdio for one simple reason - Collections.<p>I've been wishing Spotify had this functionality for as long as I've been using it. Time to call it a day and go else where for my music.<p>Also the spotify iPhone app is shit, but I haven't used Rdio's enough yet to compare.
I really want to love Rdio.<p>I switched from Spotify 8 months ago and at first it was a breathe of fresh air but I soon started noticing issues with the desktop client. It's just a UIWebView that loads the web app. Album artwork loads slowly if you've got a large collection, UI interactions are unresponsive and will often time out.<p>The other major issue is having albums in your collection become unplayable due to what looks like licensing issues, only to reappear months later as the same album, except not in your collection. Spotify doesn't seem to have this issue.
Having the ability to listen to music from one source is important to many and Rdio has no "Local File" support. This is necessary for artists/albums Rdio doesn't have in it's library and it's a reason myself and many others won't ever make the jump from Spotify.
I switched mostly from Rdio to Spotify. I used rdio since it started, but spotify's radio based off a playlist is great. I get more discovery songs this way. I also have non-english songs that aren't on rdio, but I can add them in Spotify. I do love rdio's new album page better.
I love rdio, but what is up with the lack of gapless playback? I love continuous albums, and even for the lack of being able to play these without the annoying silences between tracks I still prefer rdio, but this is the biggest issue I have right now with the service.
I can only listen to 30 seconds of the songs. I have not logged in to Rdio for over a year, so it couldn't be the monthly limit still being in effect.<p>Anybody else experience this?
I might buy their mid-tier plan and cancel my Spotify subscription. I was planning on downgrading my Spotify subscription, but it seems that their mid-tier plan (the one that cost half that of premium) is gone now.