Support for rdio

[lkview]

rdio.com is an excellent music service - but it appears to not be compatible with Squeezebox! Does anyone know of a way to stream rdio through Squeezebox, similar to Pandora?

[mortslim]

I pay $10. per month to get Rhapsody, the granddaddy of all streaming music services that give you exactly what you want when you want it: artist, song, genre, album.

I am concerned that there are too many services either now available or announced. There is not enough room for all of them.

I heard google is going to have a streaming service in a few months and probably apple too.

A shake out is coming.

Maybe none of the services can survive on their own.

Maybe the winner will be the one that uses it as a loss leader for other purposes, maybe to sell records or for advertising or just to perpertually lose money like youtube.

And who are we to blame for all this? The record companies for charging too much for royalties?

The public for expecting music for free?

Who knows what will happen. I don't.

[rcampbel3]

rdio - Crunchies 2010 runner-up

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/21/congratulations-crunchies-winners-twitter-takes-best-startup-of-2010

The more the merrier. Bring it to mysqueezebox.com and how about ujam as well?

-Ross

[[email protected]]

The more services available the better .

Let's see Rdio,MOG, etc and let the winners
Be chosen on their merits .

[sle118]

The more services available the better .

Let's see Rdio,MOG, etc and let the winners
Be chosen on their merits .

Now that Napster is no longer available in Canada, this is becoming a necessary feature.

see my post in a different thread

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90703&page=2

I created a ticket to request support for rdio, which is available here. Please vote for it; create an account if necessary.

http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17794

Also, it would be a good idea if each one of us sent an email to rdio help at the following address and request support for the squeezebox platform. I already sent mine.

[email protected]

[sle118]

17 votes so far. At least the request was confirmed.

Anyone interested may also leave a comment in the following thread found on the rdio web site.

http://help.rdio.com/customer/portal/questions/19013-feature-request-squeezebox-support

[djtark]

rdio.com

It´s a must to get this service on the box !

[docbells]

agree, would love to have Rdio on squeezebox.

I have been posting to their twitter account and voting on their feature request thread. Bang the drum!

[docbells]

Rdio

See this thread - fill out the survey, and hopefully we can get some Rdio and Logitech to come together and make Rdio available on the squeezebox!

Edit - Thread: http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Squeez...rt/td-p/722360

[docbells]

agree, would love to have rdio on squeezebox.

I have been posting to their twitter account and voting on their feature request thread. Bang the drum!

bump

[mortslim]

apparently Logitech is not actively expanding and growing the Squeezebox line of products. Why? It doesn't have the budget for it anymore and its priorities lie elsewhere. Logitech has too many other products to focus on and it doesn't see the Squeezebox line as being a viable profit center. It will keep in place its existing products but not add to them, either in hardware or software or features.

the squeezebox has seen its day in the sun and now it is in the twilight. why? because since it came into existence, we now have plenty of alternate means to listen to music. E.g. airplay on the apple platform and bluetooth on all platforms. Just enable bluetooth on your cellphone (ios or android) or iPad and any bluetooth enabled speaker (including bluetooth speakers from Logitech) will play in great fidelity.

Why should Logitech spend money on adding features to Squeezebox when all you have to do is add your own favorite app to your cellphone or iPad and beam that via bluetooth to your own hifi speakers? Logitech's ecosystem for Squeezebox can't compete with that.

That is why when Mediafly stopped working with Squeezebox that there is no replacement. A competing service, Stitcher, contacted Logitech to be the replacement. But Logitech wasn't interested. In fact, Logitech wasn't even interested in responding to posts at all on the subject. Logitech just ignores the issue.

[JJZolx]

Is there a question in there?

I think you're right about why the Squeezebox line has been largely abandoned by Logitech. It was never wildly successful, and it's been supplanted by many other easy ways to stream audio. Eight or ten years ago it was unique and filled a niche. Not so much today.

In the last few years of its life, the development focus was on many of these random streaming services that have popped up. It soon became apparent, though, that the success/usability of these services on the Squeezebox was largely dependent on their support for Squeezebox, and not the other way around. Pandora One, for instance, can be played on an iPhone, but not a Squeezebox. It was Pandora's conscious decision not put resources into supporting a platform that is dwarfed by others.

[Mnyb]

"these random streaming services that have popped up" pretty much describes the market as it is and they keep popping up all the time ?
The real problem here is still the media market trying to find a working business model (free music for everyone is not it ) .
So some random venture capitalist tries something putting money in some service that be around a while and then slowly dies to later be forgotten .

But it must be frustrating for any smaller project with limited resources to be "running to stand still" just to keep up, instead of using these resources to develop something.

Now rdio tomorrow what ?

And yes apple and andriod have hit pay dirt here , but these devices are so multipurpose and widespread so a very large market for apps .
Everyone has one so why not use for music too ?

Here squeezebox advantage is it's disadvantage at the same time , it is a single purpose music and internet radio device and would not coincidentally be in everyone's pocket .
As a music machine it is better at it (imho) but that's actually a niche the whole music only hardware idea is a niche these days .

Everyone plays music on a device who main purpose is something else or a multi purpose device, I have a home theater it is also for TV dvd/blueray/games .
I sometimes listen on my computer or phone .
I think that for the average person music will be purely software in the future an add on to something else , like dlna in the TV ?
You just add music to what ever device you have ?

I have an iPad at home and next time my work cell phone breaks down my employer would place an iPhone 4 or an Experia on my table whether I want it or not ,
I would of-course investigate a number useful apps for it now that i got it ?

[ButC]

Now Rdio starts Select. No limits in streaming artists, radio, skips. No ads. 320 kbit. The only limitation is 25 offline songs a day. All for 3.99 usd. Would be great seeing it in Ickstream.

[pippin]

Please let them know that, too.