[disposition2]

I’ve used streaming services for almost a decade now and nothing has ever come close to Rdio.

I use YouTube Music today as its family plan is reasonably priced (although the price is increasing next year) and it includes YouTube Premium…but I have found with it (and every other service I’ve tried) that I have to use other tools for actual music discovery.

I tried Spotify for a while but the promotion of Podcasts caused me to speak with my $ and stop using it…plus its music discovery is no better than YTM.

I still use LastFM as my primary source for recommendations and it does okay.

But I will never forget how wonderful Rdio was to use…it felt (atleast to me) like a service for people who loved music and discovering new music

[thepuppet33r]

You're the only other person I've met online who knows of RDIO. I was an early adopter and I loved that service like it was my own child. I was HEARTBROKEN when it was shuttered.

[jskulski]

Team Rdio right here. A truly great app for music lovers that arrived when the age of apps felt like a bright utopia ahead of us. I truly miss it.

[MattDemers]

Canadians loved Rdio, trust me.

[s3000]

What's your opinion of https://digs.fm ? It's built by a HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551862

Which features made rdio so good?

[thepuppet33r]

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but it had a way of having a broad collection while still allowing you to discover new acts. It just... worked, seamlessly, and it didn't have any of the flashiness of Spotify. I like Spotify, but RDIO will always have a special place in my heart.

[disposition2]

I’m basing this off of 7+ year old memories so please excuse errors / misinformation…

- It had label support. For example, if you wanted to find all releases by Deutsche Grammophon, you could

- It’s handling of classical music seemed much better than anything I can recall using

- It’s recommendations seemed to be better…like they went above and beyond basic genre recommendations

- For ‘radio stations’ you could dislike a song or artist and it only affected that station. So if you love Bowie but don’t want him on your funk station, you could dislike the artist but still have all the Bowie you wanted on other stations…same for songs

- The social aspect seemed to bade recommendations on people who had similar taste as you…kind of like Dig that would mention but it was built in to the service

Again, this is all based off of memory but I’m confident I discovered more artists and music on that single service vs the plethora of varied services I use today.

As to Dig, I have tried it but it’s such a manual thing I haven’t kept up. I tend to listen to local jazz / classical radio nowadays for the majority of my time and periodically use various services for discovery. I’ll have to give it another go.

Side note, similar to OP, I have found BandCamp (specifically their weekly show) to be also good for discovery.