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

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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

HBO gunning for cord-cutters with online service, but not yet for Canada

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Viewers have spoken and HBO has listened. The popular cable network announced yesterday that it will create a cable-free online service for customers in the USA. This means consumers no longer need to subscirbe to expensive cable packages that bundle a bunch of channels they aren't interested in just so they can watch Game of Thrones or True Detective.

"That is a large and growing opportunity that should no longer be left untapped," HBO's CEO Richard Plepler said. "It is time to remove all barriers to those who want HBO."

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Spotify now officially available in Canada, 20 million songs at your fingertips

Long awaited music streaming service Spotify is now officially available in Canada and accessible through mobile devices and the web. Boasting a 20 million song library on demand and various curated radio stations and seamless listening experience. Hit jump for all the details and the official release.

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Spotify now available in Canada to pre-launch users

The popular Spotify music streaming website service and app is now available to Canadians who signed up for the pre-launch invite codes. Emails to these individuals started coming in today with codes to try the service for free for 30 days. Spotify has 40 million users and 10 million paid subscribers worldwide.