I’ve been invited to the Rd.io private beta and I can bring 10 of you along with me. Just email JON@TBOTTLE.COM to request an invitation. It’s a streaming music service like Pandora but runs entirely on-demand with unlimited skipping. The Rd.io subscription model is $4.99/month web-only or $9.99/month web and mobile. The beta invitations entitle users to preview the service for three days… long enough to get a flavor for it. So far, I’ve found some good tunes and many new releases.
As I wrote back in mid-December…
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, founders of Kazaa and Skype, are privately beta testing their new streaming music venture, Rdio (with the eponymous ULR http://rd.io). Apparently, Rdio will offer unlimited, commercial-free streaming music on a subscription basis which is expected to be a few dollars per month. Many of the primary tech blogs are predicting the service to be dead-on-arrival but I’m not counting them out. They’ve made something out of nothing… twice.
The Apple App Store has approved the Rdio app but it is non-functional unless you have been invited to the private beta. Head over to Wired to see the app in action and some additional commentary.
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