RDIO Hits Spotify App And MOG Protectors

Years of RDIO streaming service has launched an application optimized for the Apple iPhone, but you can not download from iTunes.

The application comes with a 7 day free trial but then costs $ 14.99 a month if purchased through iTunes, or $ 9.99 per month if purchased through the site RDIO own (which reflect a recent policy review of iTunes purchase). RDIO began with an iPhone last year, and also web clients and office.

RDIO has a catalog of more than 10 million songs to choose and stream on demand. Spotify as MOG and it is heavy on the social networking site. It allows you to tap into playlists with your friends on Facebook and Twitter, or members RDIO others, the following proposals for their walls. It also highlights new releases and best-selling songs, and recommendations based on what feeds you have listened before.

Malthe Sigurdsson, vice president of product design RDIO, said that the version of the iPad was the most desirable feature of the year. "Album deliver to reveal track list, scroll to a portrait and landscape are wonderfully animated and control, and lists are cleverly arranged to show the album in high definition," he said in a statement.

Slacker, award-winning Choosing a publisher PCMag music streaming service, Pandora, also has versions iPad, but focus more on delivering songs personalized and individual stations based on viewing habits.

RDIO launched last summer, Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis founders of Kazaa.