"Exclusive" Cloud music Rdio: Star Music library seconds kill itunes

You should have heard of Apple's icloud, Amazon's cloud player and Google Music Beta, as well as the remote music storage services for smartphones, laptops and desktop computers. Rdio is another service similar to the one described above, which, though little known, is at least as equal to other music services and has a major advantage over its rivals.

Founded by Skype and Kazaa, Rdio recently signed a deal with Verizon and Telus to provide cloud services to telecom customers. There are rumors that Rdio will be integrated into Facebook, a carnival of free music social networks and a major change for Rdio.

But now, to Rdio's fame, Rdio is the only service available in Canada for similar services. Canadian law--presumably, in fact, Canada is a smaller market--to ensure that other competing companies do not yet provide similar services. Even if it is provided, it is at most the initial stage. Apple has announced plans to launch icloud in the UK next year, when Apple could compete. After all, Apple was the only company in the music cloud that signed a deal with the big four record companies before the launch of icloud. The rest of the companies, including Rdio, will need to deal with copyright issues once they want to intervene in the music cloud market. But if you want to know if Rdio is not a Netflix music cloud, because Netflix's Canadian music library is a big difference from the American music library, thankfully the answer is comforting.

For a flat rate of $10 per month that is not 5 dollars, users can access up to about 10 million songs, and can cache offline use (on your Rdio desktop or Rdio applications) without limiting the number of playback. Rdio compatible with your itunes collection and into all the music tracks you already have. And, it is legal to enter your music library.

Somehow, it's a collection of my obscure Quebec electronic pop (automelodi), rather than my star-nominated "Hip Hop" (radio) in Arcadia, which admits the first album of the 90 England band Marion, not the second one, is important. , which is a complete collection of each album of Dears, a top band in Montreal, affected by Morrissey. Sadly, however, their female counterparts on the West Coast, Vancouver's organ band, were labeled "Unavailable" in the music library.

Rdio acknowledges the music repertoire of your itunes music library and communicates it directly to your Rdio music library. It is not a question of indie music with mainstream music, pop music and obscure music, you can add the soundtrack of the earliest version of the film Tron by avant-garde classical composer Wendy Carlos, but if you want to include the Grammy/whole-English Music Awards of the Arcade Fire band/ Juno Music Awards 2010 album The Suburbs ("the Suburbs"), this becomes impossible.

Rdio don't expect you to do it all by yourself. You can see Rdio's most popular album in the latest release list, as well as the album recommendations tailored to your Favorites list. You can also create playlists, see other users ' playlists, focus on someone, and be watched by other users of your "wonderful hybrid album #6". ”

If this sounds almost as good as it is, it is a warning to everyone that Rdio has its own stubborn ailment that is temporarily unresolved. Small stubborn disease such as music player stagnation, search engine timeout, load need a period of time; when I first subscribed, all the music was labeled "Preview" and only a 30-second consecutive clip. The former may have just happened, perhaps a hiccup by the Internet, while the latter is a major distraction, although the problem has been effectively resolved after communication with the Rdio friendly technical support mail.

So, with just a little change in your pocket, you can get 10 million songs, even though there are occasional little mistakes. I'd say it's better value for money than Netflix and worth subscribing to.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)