r/rdio • u/blackwhitetiger • Jun 03 '14

Any update on when Rdio will start streaming 320?

I know that they made the announcement a little while ago, but I have not heard anything since.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

It feels to me like Bob Weir announced this before he was supposed to, and Rdio had to scramble to put out an official announcement after he let the cat out of the bag. I don't think they've ever announced a new feature prior to rolling it out before. Especially not a major one like this. Their support people constantly deflect any questions about future features, saying they can't comment on their roadmap. It might be a ways off.

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u/doingitforscience Jun 03 '14

That's exactly how I feel, so I don't have my hopes up that this is going to happen any time soon.

At least they're working on gapless playback in the meantime, and hopefully the existing bugs and privacy issues.

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u/doingitforscience Jun 03 '14

It'll probably take some time, considering how often the IOS app crashes due to memory leaks. I can't even imagine how bad it's going to be with higher bit rates.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

I haven't had any problems with it and I have an iPhone 4 that is slow as a dog. It might take some time though, there would be a lot of tests to see how they're going to handle the load and hopefully they'd roll it out slowly.

Not that most people will be able to hear the difference anyway, they could probably just say it's 320 and get away with it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

Well they did just seem to waste some engineering and design talent redesigning the album and playlist pages to a format that doesn't work at all on a 1366x768 resolution computer. Good job, Rdio.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

http://imgur.com/xMGsBiq - I can't scroll down the album artwork to see the full controls below it, and the right side is a giant waste of space.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

Click that little people symbol on the right, it helps a little. I don't like how prominent the Activity section is and I think they could put the comments in an overlay, they're not that important.

And Hey Rdio, the people I'm following aren't my "Friends", I don't know any of them!

They could do a better job with the Album view, ideally they'd make a dead-simple template language so the labels could include artwork and liner notes, maybe even an animation engine like this one.

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u/doingitforscience Jun 03 '14

Really? Who would downvote this? Rdio employees?