Rdio 2.0 Design • Hacker News Board

Re: Rdio 2.0 Design

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Post by trafnar » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 1:59 AM UTC

cageface wrote: post #2

The radical new all-white design of the desktop app and their refusal to address the outcry it caused among their users was the main reason I switched to Spotify after happily using their service for years. If they're "doubling down" on this style in the mobile app now I guess I made the right choice. It's a shame - rdio is a great service in a lot of other ways.

When I read the first half of that sentence, I thought it was going to end with "...was the main reason I kept using Rdio".

I like that they stick to their guns :)

Re: Rdio 2.0 Design

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Post by saturdaysaint » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 2:01 AM UTC

As a longtime Rdio loyalist, I'm really digging it. It seems to take fewer taps to get to the different sections and many of the discovery sections ("New Releases" and "Heavy Rotation") finally infinite scroll in iOS, which really makes discovery easier.

Plus it's remarkably pretty, which I appreciate. Nice fonts, subtle color variations and a few transparent UI layers give it a nice texture. A lot of hard core music lovers like vinyl because the attention to packaging invokes a certain reverence for the art - to some extent I think Rdio accomplish this as much as they can on a 3.5 inch screen.

Re: Rdio 2.0 Design

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Post by obilgic » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 2:30 AM UTC

And on my blackberry I still have the same rdio app for 2 years...

Re: Rdio 2.0 Design

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Post by bobz » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 2:55 AM UTC

obilgic wrote: post #13

And on my blackberry I still have the same rdio app for 2 years...

Surprised they made one in the first place.

Re: Rdio 2.0 Design

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Post by hippich » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 3:35 AM UTC

Rdio - is iOS app used to manage music:

Earlier today, music streaming service Rdio launched a major update of its mobile app for iPhone and iPad, a much-needed redesign for an app that was starting to show its age.

Re: Rdio 2.0 Design

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Post by ryanpetrich » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 3:44 AM UTC

cageface wrote: post #9

benschwarz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait… so you stopped using rdio because you didn't like the design, but you chose spotify? ARE YOU BLIND MAN?

Spotify isn't beautiful but at least it's not like staring right into the sun.

Nearly all monitors have a backlight brightness control.

Re: Rdio 2.0 Design

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Post by edandersen » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 3:59 AM UTC

Interestingly, Rdio 2.0 is built with C# and MonoTouch, sharing significant amounts of code with the Android client. https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/273487637292130304

Re: Rdio 2.0 Design

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Post by dcrall » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 4:01 AM UTC

cageface wrote: post #9

benschwarz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait… so you stopped using rdio because you didn't like the design, but you chose spotify? ARE YOU BLIND MAN?

Spotify isn't beautiful but at least it's not like staring right into the sun.

Not only is Spotify ugly, it's nearly unusable in my opinion. Today I was trying to navigate to a friend's playlist and was unable to do so from the list of my Facebook friends. The web presence for the playlist had no titles, and the first time I tried to open it in the app it failed.

I did not like Rdio's re-design at first, but it has grown on me more than I thought it would.

Re: Rdio 2.0 Design

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Post by cageface » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 4:09 AM UTC

dcrall wrote: post #18

cageface wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotify isn't beautiful but at least it's not like staring right into the sun.

Not only is Spotify ugly, it's nearly unusable in my opinion. Today I was trying to navigate to a friend's playlist and was unable to do so from the list of my Facebook friends. The web presence for the playlist had no titles, and the first time I tried to open it in the app it failed. I did not like Rdio's re-design at first, but it has grown on me more than I thought it would.

Rdio wins hands-down for social/sharing features. That's the thing I miss the most. On Spotify I'm pretty much solo.

Spotify's other killer feature is local sync on the laptop. I'm usually dependent on crappy hotel/cafe wifi and Rdio just chokes.

Re: Rdio 2.0 Design

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Post by cageface » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 4:15 AM UTC

edandersen wrote: post #17

Interestingly, Rdio 2.0 is built with C# and MonoTouch, sharing significant amounts of code with the Android client. https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/273487637292130304

The discovery of this fact was actually the reason I finally took a long hard look at Monotouch. It's a great validation for the Mono team.

I'm still sitting it out but if WP starts getting any traction then that will probably be the last push I need to really dig in. There isn't a day that goes by when I'm coding in Obj-C or Java and don't wish for some C# feature.