Rdio becomes official music sponsor for the 2015 JUNO Awards

Helping to celebrate the best of Canadian music, Rdio is now the official music sponsor for the 2015 JUNO Awards. The music streaming service will provide curated stations and playlists for the nominees and winners for this year’s JUNO Awards. Also, top Canadian artists like Hedley (Dave Rosin), Sam Roberts, LIGHTS, and Dallas Green of You+Me also have playlists specially curated for Rdio. The service will be integrated fully into the 2015 JUNO Awards app. Those who get the app on Android or iOS will see previews of the songs on the app and will be connected directly to Rdio to listen to the full tracks.

You can check out 2015 JUNO Award stations at Rdio’s site or right from JUNO Awards website.

Rdio slashes prices for Family Plan

In another move to take advantage of the Spotify-Taylor Swift debacle, Rdio is reducing prices for its Family Plan. Starting at $14.99 for a family of two, succeeding members will only add $5 to your bill. This will support up to a family of five. This plan is like those on other streaming services that will let sub-accounts keep their playlists and favorites separate. Rdio says they’ve already began rolling out the new prices globally.

Source: Rdio

Taylor Swift's adoring fans can still get their streaming music fix on RDIO

image from Taylorswift.com

Pop superstar Taylor Swift rocked the interwebs by pulling out of popular streaming service Spotify this week. Swift's sentiments that streaming services like Spotify fail to properly compensate artists as well as musicians, engineers and producers that create the music. So, as an experiment, streaming music was something Swift no longer wanted to participate in. Thankfully, fans of Swift's music can turn to RDIO which announced that the full library of Swift's musical ouvre would be available (except the latest album "1989") will remain available through the following ways through the platform’s ad-supported Internet radio service. 

• on-demand, allowing paid subscribers to listen to any of her songs anywhere, anytime they want
• Internet radio, allowing anyone to hear her songs as part of the ad-supported Internet radio experience

Shazam now lets you stream full tracks from Rdio within the app

If you’ve wanted to listen to a full track on Shazam, then you can now do that with the help of Rdio. A recent update will let you playback an entire song using Rdio’s library. The catch is you have to have a Rdio subscription. If you do, you just need to link the two apps and you are good to go. The tracks you “Shazamed” will be sorted into its own playlist and there will also be an “Add to Playlist” button to put the song into your playlist of choice. The update is already available for iOS devices and will come to Android in the following days.

Source: Shazam