Rdio the popular online music service which serves approximately 60 countries have finally launched their operations in India today. Talking about the services here, comparing with Saavn and Gaana, Rdio has the biggest catalogue with over 32 million songs in 43 languages from global, regional and local labels.
If you remember, Rdio last year acquired Dhingana a similar initiative limited to local curated lists. Rdio offers users to create their own radio stations or join others similar to their interests. Rdio’s major competition which includes Spotify and Pandora still does not have any presence in India. This actually helps them to collect some brownie points against local competitors who can’t feature a good collection for International music.
Rdio along with their partnerships with Shazam, SoundHound and Google Chromecast makes much more sense relying on online streaming services until Internet availability is not an issue. Rdio comes in free radio experience which can be upgraded to full on demand service online or offline, without ads for $1.99 USD or 120 INR per month. We think this is a fair price to ask for DRM free music subscription.
India which has seen a huge growth in Internet market last year have attracted lot of attention from global players. This has led to an Internet revolution with improves the quality of lifestyle lived by an average citizen. We are glad this is happening and it is not ending anytime soon. Rdio is available on Web, iOS and Android devices. All we need to do is register and download the apps from rdio.com.
