RIP. One of the services I happily pay for every month and will miss terribly. The others just don't have the same feeling of belonging that Rdio gave me.

I guess that answers my Rdio vs. Spotify app question.

For a long time I really wanted to work at Rdio because they were doing my favourite design work on a product I genuinely loved using every day.

I don't get it, what's so bad about Spotify? Have been using it for a loooong time and I love it.

NO! This is horrible news.

Edit: here is how to get a CSV of your favorites...

1.) Install this Google Chrome Plugin.

2.) Refresh the Rdio webapp and select your favorites list. An "Export to CSV" button should appear at the top. Click the button and wait (my library took about 30-60 seconds before the download happened, be patient).

3.) Shed a tear.

They had the best design in the music streaming service. I will miss it.

I've been using Spotify for over 3 years now and it's only getting better and better. Rdio relied heavily on design and never really appealed to the mass market - I doubt any of my non-dev/non-designer peers have ever even heard of Rdio.

That's sad. Seems like Apple music will be the next stop for me. But hopefully we'll still have Rdio service for a while.

This is one of those moments when you struggle with the possibility that design isn't always the silver bullet answer when there could have been other fundamental business issues solved to help them survive.

I'm going to be an outlier here for saying this but I found Rdio to be overdesigned and frustrating to use. I stuck with Spotify, which is still a great product.

Design doesn't always matter.

As with most, I'm quite sad. Rdio has been my favorite for a long time. Great app that's easy to use (though it had a rough time for a while there where it was pretty buggy, but everyone goes through that it seems).

Pandora could stand to gain if they also take the music licensing deals with this sale. If they don't get the licensing deals, then this will just lead to another on-demand music clone with Pandora's pitiful music library. They can use Rdio's tech all they want, but if they still only have the same million or so songs in their catalog, it's not worth it.

Spotify has the music library to match, and even best Rdio, but the app and interface are terrible. On the Android app, for example, you can't reorder your play queue. Also each song and album has an "overflow" style menu button on it, but the press target is so small that if you don't use a stylus, there is about an 80% chance you won't hit the menu button and instead select the track itself, which starts playing immediately and REPLACES the play queue that you can't reorder. Terrible, terrible interface. And it's been this way for years.

Hope Pandora does something similar.

Damn. I loved Rdio, and then they put the focus on stations and new users, and abandoned the features old/power users knew and loved. (Removing history.. ? wtf?!)

Maybe someone here knows: does Spotify have the remote control functionality, when you are logged in on multiple devices? i loved this feature (when it worked)

I switched over to Spotify today and upgraded to Premium. I'm still getting the Google ad at the bottom. I figured it would go away once I paid.

Is this normal?

Hopefully they offer a clean way to switch over to another service. I will really miss Rdio.

I didn't use Rdio regularly but whenever I checked in and played around with it there was always some good design going on. Sad to see they're bowing out.