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The new Rdio design is really nice, but there's really only one thing about Rdio that I find extremely lacking (and it was never their design). I wish I could play my phone's iTunes music collection from Rdio. The fact is, you can't find everything on Rdio (hello, Led Zeppelin?) and it's kind of sucky that you would have to switch to a totally different app for that.
They answered this question in their support forum. Their answer was that your own audio files are not "social" so they do not plan to support them inside Rdio.
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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.
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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.
Spotify's killer feature is that you don't have to exit the app and switch to a different app to play music that they don't have.
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
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
For some reason, I would expect this to improve the quality of their Windows Phone app, which is nigh-unusable. Despite how much I love Rdio (and opted to pay for the family plan), I'm considering switching away because of this.
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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.
Spotify's killer feature is that you don't have to exit the app and switch to a different app to play music that they don't have.
Spotify had a terrible Android app for a while, so I switched to Rdio. Then Spotify really improved their app so I considered them again, but now Rdio's app is even better. Hmm...
Also, Rdio has a "family plan" type thing. My wife and I both have accounts, so we get a discount.
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For some reason, I would expect this to improve the quality of their Windows Phone app, which is nigh-unusable. Despite how much I love Rdio (and opted to pay for the family plan), I'm considering switching away because of this.
The question is, what would you switch to? Spotify is AWOL (at least on WP8), Rdio's app is terrible, etc.
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.
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.