Following the news of Rdio's bankruptcy filing and sale to Pandora, the company offered some details on how its users can expect their streaming accounts to ride off into the sunset. Starting November 23rd, the service will no longer accept new cus...
Spotify is probably how most Americans were introduced to streaming music over the last four years or so -- the service has grown by leaps and bounds since it launched in the US in July of 2011. But a relatively small group of music fans were enjoy...
When a company goes under, the firms that it still owes money to have to bear the pain of those unpaid debts. Rdio's collapse has, unfortunately, sent ramifications through the tech and music industries that'll see firms like Roku and Shazam reachi...
Pandora, already one of the biggest players in the music streaming space, has just announced it is acquiring "key assets" from fellow streaming service Rdio for $75 million. However, this isn't just a standard case of one company buying another --...
If you enjoy listening to solo work from members of The Beatles, the library of options just got larger. The solo catalog of guitarist George Harrison hit most music streaming services today. This means that you'll be able to access the musician's...
With its latest update, Shazam has gotten considerably more useful. On more than one occasion have I Shazam-ed a song only to have to then manually launch Rdio, search for it, and then play it. It’s annoying and unnecessary and I had been waiting for this kind of integration for a long time. Now, whenever you tag something, you’re given the option to play it in Rdio, or better yet, to play the song directly in Shazam without even needing to launch Rdio separately. The integration is seamless and really well done. It’s an obvious partnership that adds appeal to both services. For users of both, know that the functionality is just an update away, so get to it!
Streaming online radios to a home audio system can be done in several ways. One option is to spend $250 on a Sonos system that streams music wirelessly over Wi-Fi, while the other option implies a Chromecast and a $10 adapter.
When Google launched Chromecast back in July, it opened the doors for new ways of streaming audio and video to TVs. Basically, what this little HDMI dongle did was make dumb TVs smarter. Mainly, it mirrored content from smartphones and tablets and thus allowed entire families to enjoy online music and videos on a much larger screen. Among the sources of the streamed content, there are Netflix, YouTube, Google Play and the Chrome browser. There is a tiny tiny problem, though. Listening to online radio requires turning on the TV, or it did require that until now. Janko Roettgers from GigaOM used a $10 HDMI to VGA adapter to turn Google’s dongle into a networked audio adapter.
The secret is to find an HDMI to VGA adapter that also has an audio port for 3.5mm jacks. It is known that the HDMI standard enables transport of audio and video over a single cable, hence the need for an audio port. After purchasing such an adapter, things get a lot easier. All you need to do is plug the Chromecast dongle and an audio cable into the adapter, and connect the VGA plug to a notebook or computer running the Chrome browser with the Chromecast plugin. Alternatively, you can connect to the Chromecast wirelessly from an Android or iOS smartphone or tablet or a notebook with the Google Chrome browser and Chromecast plugin.
Next, you need to find a compatible Internet radio app such as Pandora, Rdio, or Songza, and hit Play on the Chromecast icon. The best thing about all this is that you don’t need to keep a TV on to listen to online music. On top of that, you can switch off the device from which Chromecast is streaming music. It goes without saying that you can switch stations or jump to the next song, but this differs from one Internet radio app to the other. Overall, this is a nice hack that enables you to stream online music to your home stereo system with a minimum investment.
Music subscription service Rdio has announced that they are expanding to twenty new territories around the world, which means that the service is now available in 51 countries. According to Rdio, they are now the world’s second largest music subscription service in terms of the amount of countries covered, you can see details below of […]
Rdio has announced today that it is hiring Anthony Bay as its new Chief Executive Officer. Anthony Bay has worked with all three of the big names. He was a former digital media executive at Amazon,...
Sonos has also marked this holiday season by introducing a new powerful wireless speaker called SONOS PLAY:1 with free BRIDGE today. Sonos is a big name wireless HiFi manufacturing field. The HiFi...
Following the news of Rdio's bankruptcy filing and sale to Pandora, the company offered some details on how its users can expect their streaming accounts to ride off into the sunset. Starting November 23rd, the service will no longer accept new cus...
Spotify is probably how most Americans were introduced to streaming music over the last four years or so -- the service has grown by leaps and bounds since it launched in the US in July of 2011. But a relatively small group of music fans were enjoy...
When a company goes under, the firms that it still owes money to have to bear the pain of those unpaid debts. Rdio's collapse has, unfortunately, sent ramifications through the tech and music industries that'll see firms like Roku and Shazam reachi...
Pandora, already one of the biggest players in the music streaming space, has just announced it is acquiring "key assets" from fellow streaming service Rdio for $75 million. However, this isn't just a standard case of one company buying another --...
If you enjoy listening to solo work from members of The Beatles, the library of options just got larger. The solo catalog of guitarist George Harrison hit most music streaming services today. This means that you'll be able to access the musician's...
