Rdio makes its debut… as an iPhone app
Rdio is set to be one of the more intriguing music startups of 2010 – it’s a streaming subscription service set up by Skype/Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom. It’s still in stealth mode, but has today launched an iPhone app – presumably for members of its private beta, although the app is publicly available on Apple’s App Store.
Here’s the description: “Rdio is like carrying a giant MP3 player in your pocket – you have unlimited and unrestricted access to all the music, and you get to select exactly the song, album or artist you want to hear. And you can skip, pause fast forward as much as you want. Build your collection and compose your playlists on rdio.com and listen to them all on the go. Or search for just the right song when you’re out and it will start playing instantly.”
The app promises the ability to build unlimited playlists, as well as get notifications when “your collaborative playlists are updated”. Sounds like it’s going to be a viable rival to Spotify and Pandora in the year ahead.
The app is free to download, although you need a Rdio login to make it work. All four of the screenshots published on the App Store are after the jump (click for the bigger version of the montage). For more on this year’s crop of music startups, see our The A to Z of Digital Music Startups in 2009 post, which has over 160 of ‘em.
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Sounds very similar to Spotify. The need to have offline playlists like Spotify do for the mobile app make sense… so many places without signal.
Pricing will be key.
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