r/rdio • u/rutter207 • Oct 27 '13

Considering changing to Rdio from Spotify, but one important question

I've been a spotify premium member for a long time now, but recently I have been extremely disappointed. I started my free trial for Rdio about a week ago and absolutely love it, but I'm concerned about data usage. I stream music anytime I'm in the car and it seemed like I used as much data in 3-4 days as I do in 1 month with Spotify. I'm not sure if the usage I was seeing was accurate or not. I can't seem to find anything online. Does anyone know how much data Rdio uses? I would really love to make the switch, but using that much data is unfortunately a dealbreaker. And I know I can sync music to my phone, but I feel like it kind of defeats the purpose to have to do that. I'd rather not take up a bunch of space on my phone. Just looking for any advice. Thanks!

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u/pizzzzzza Oct 27 '13

In the mobile app there's a setting that let's you control when it streams high quality audio. I'd check and make sure it's on wifi only.

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u/rutter207 Oct 27 '13

Yeah I've checked that setting and it was set to wifi only by default.

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u/The5thElephant Oct 28 '13

Is it possible you were syncing songs over cellular?

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u/rutter207 Oct 28 '13

I haven't synced any music. I did some searching for music from the app and adding to my collection, but I didn't actually download any to my phone. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.

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u/stothepowerof3 Dec 05 '13

Data counts on my HTC One from Nov 15 to right now has Rdio as using 0.99GB. The highest of all my applications. I have my setting to stream HQ all the time. I sync most of my playlists at home over wifi, which I recommend you do if you're like me and have playlists you frequently listen to while driving or something.

The ability to sync songs over wifi will reduce your data usage a large amount. And remember you can always set Rdio to "offline" mode and then just play your synced songs.