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Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service

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Re: Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service

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Post by wlesieutre »

fernandotakai wrote: post #48
mark_l_watson wrote: post #33

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Wow, how long has an Android Apple Music app been available? I might have gone with Apple Music if I had known this a few months ago. With iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play music, it was a pain with duplicate music libraries. I went with Play Music (now gets ad-free youtube thrown in), but I might have made a different decision.

> Wow, how long has an Android Apple Music app been available? 6 days. and, for everyone's surprise, it's quite good. fast too.

Some background on it here: http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/10/apple-music-comes-to-androi...

He's being a bit cute with the "little hamburger" remark, but I still chuckled. Better than invisible "swipe from edge" menus if you ask me.

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Post by mbrock »

criley2 wrote: post #107
mbrock wrote: post #100

I subscribe to Spotify. If they would just let me view "My Albums" (which is basically all I'm ever interested in) as an alphabetical list instead of a canvas of enormous pictures (4x2 fit on my screen), that would make me so happy. Every time they continuously deploy one of those "please upgrade" popups, which is nearly every day (pretty annoying BTW, can't you just upgrade silently? I've never even noticed anything…

In Spotify, instead of "saving album to My Music" I choose to create a playlist of the album. It's just drag and drop to create the playlist on desktop. I choose to sort those into folders based on genre/artist/album, which works well for me.

Oh yeah, I have some of those old playlists cluttering up my sidebar... Wow, I didn't know there were folders! Thanks, that might work for me too.

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Post by zschallz »

archagon wrote: post #79
matart wrote: post #41

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I really like spotify because I can use it on my phone, PS3, laptop, etc. My phone can be the remote to my sound system in another room. I also have a small data plan on my phone so I do not stream music. Spotify allows me to download their songs for playing offline. Does Google Music provide these or similar?

Spotify also has a native(-ish) OSX client (can you use Google Music outside the browser?) and excellent playlist drag/drop and sharing support. Plus, I love their iOS user interface. No other service has come close in either area. I just wish they had better local file support.

I use gear music player for google music https://www.gearmusicplayer.com/. It's fantastic (but not free).

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Post by zw »

ryanSrich wrote: post #29
tetraodonpuffer wrote: post #9

that is really unfortunate, I much prefer Rdio's web interface to Spotify's and for all the years I've been a subscriber it's been rock solid, on the other hand I do think I am likely not the typical user (100% on desktop, mostly listens to full albums rather than random songs, a lot of classical music, etc.) When Rdio shuts down I am really not sure where I will be able to go for a comparable experience, Spotify for…

Apple music is not usable with any device. Just to name a few issues I've personally experienced: - Not being able to listen to music because itunes said I wasn't signed in. (of course I was and the only way to fix it was to restart my computer.) This error happens a few times per month. - Songs not playing and getting an alert error with some random code that results in searching countless threads online. This happe…

I have nothing to say about your other issues (I haven't experienced most of them; I'm quite happy with the service), but the banner at the top of the More (…) menu takes you to the album of a song, which then easily leads to the Artist page. Do it all the time, takes me half a second.

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Post by luckycharms810 »

nbarbettini wrote: post #53

I've used Rdio for a few years now, and this sucks. Spotify's UI doesn't compete.

Yep, completely agree. I think Spotify had a really good opportunity to innovate as a streaming music player but instead they created a Frankenstein's itunes. I'm not mad that they copied an existing interface but that they copied one that was terrible to begin with. I really hope that the work Rdio did in terms of their UI doesn't go to waste.

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Post by jeremyrwelch »

Rdio made a mistake by trying to compete directly with Spotify. And Pandora is making a huge mistake by shutting down the service and losing a valuable niche group of users.

Everyone I know who actually uses Rdio is DIE HARD (I see evidence of this in the comments too). The users I know are pro audio guys, musicians, programmers, artists, etc who use the app 6+ hours a day across desktop and mobile.

Rdio could easily carve out a dedicated customer base at the high-end who would pay MUCH MORE for a Pro version (I'd do $50 a month).

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Post by bananaoomarang »

colmvp wrote: post #70
infecto wrote: post #61

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I love Discover Weekly. It is the one thing that has really stood out to me. I have found a lot of songs/artists that I love using this service.

Did they develop this in-house or acquire a technology for this?

Sounds like it was in house: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9416579/spotify-discover-w...

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Post by orik »

bsimpson wrote: post #8

I've been told by people in the position to know that the 2010-era streaming services (Rdio, Spotify, Mog) were all effectively the same company: owned mostly by the music studios (in exchange for licenses) with a minority stake for each's particular founders/investors. As Dalton Caldwell cautioned in 2011, licensing costs make music startups are nigh impossible [1]. For people who are willing to pay for a music serv…

I wonder if Google or Apple is in a stronger position to compete on price, and if either of them can accomplish what Amazon tried to accomplish with books until the Hatchette dispute.
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