Rdio vs Spotify

[JimboDeany]

I found rdio on the Google Play store yesterday and signed up to the free trial and I must say it seems pretty good to me. I was just wondering what peoples thoughts are on this against spotify?

Apologies if this is kind of off topic.......

 

[Daniel0418]

I think I can make this thread more Nexus 7 related while staying on the topic of your post.

Rdio vs Spotify on the Nexus 7. Which is better?

Well until recently, say March or so, the Rdio app looked much better than Spotify. Spotify was still using android 1.5-1.6 paradigms while Rdio was using 2.3 with a little bit of ICS here and there. But in March spotify looks and feels a lot like the G+ or new YouTube apps. So I kind of like that better. However, Rdio has both 'playlists' and 'collection. What this means I'd you can build a huge library of all the music you like listed alphabetically by artist, and within each artists, listed alphabetically by album, and this only includes what you have added. Spotify can only make playlists. The way Rdio works makes you feel like your using a library of music you spent years collecting, where as spotify feels very much like a streaming service where you have to search and select each song you want to listen to. So for that reason, I prefer the way Rdio works. Also, the developers of Rdio respond to emails and put out bug fixes really quickly once they are reported.

 

[JimboDeany]

And am I right in thinking that both let you store music to play offline as well?

 

[cusinndzl]

I like Rdio much better, but now that Spotify is free on the desktop and mobile I'm using it instead.

 

[jwdriggs]

I maybe kicked out of the forum for saying this but I'm new to Android so my option is from using both on the iPhone. With that said I like Rdio better. The reason I like Rdio is I like to add an entire album. With Spotify it looks like you have to make a playlist for anything you want to have saved so you don't have to search for it again. If I am wrong with Spotify with that someone please let me know because I want to like Spotify more. I really like the social part of Spotify more than Rdio but the way I listen to music the Rdio add makes more sence for me.