The popularity of online music stores has boomed over the last few years. Sure, you have more choice than buying CD’s from the store, but every individual song can cost you up to $3.00 each! Two new online music services have just launched in Australia. Rdio.com and Rara.com offer unlimited online music streaming to allow you to listen to all your favourite songs, all the time, without having to pay for the purchase of individual songs. It looks to us like music-streaming services are poised to become the next big online hit!
What is Rdio.com?
Rdio.com is an online music service that offers “on-demand access to over 12 million songs”, the ability to search for and instantly play any song, album, artist or playlist without ever hearing a single ad and provides an online social / musical forum between users.
What Rescu. rates it:
This unlimited web and mobile bundle takes the cake, as Rdio.com offers the service on pretty much every desktop and mobile digital device you can imagine. Rdio.com works on iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry (Curve 8500+, Bold, Tour, Torch, Storm, Style).
The sound quality is exceptional and the service is very easy to use both on the desktop website and the Apple iPhone app! Five Stars!
What it costs:
Rdio.com is very affordable and upfront with their flat-rate monthly costs. Following the initial one-week free trial period, for desktop streaming only Rdio.com will charge you $8.90 per month. This is a very reasonable price especially for those who regularly spend big on online music download purchases. Web and Mobile use will set you back $12.90 per month.
Rescu. Recommends:
Rdio.com is the perfect online music service; with it’s easy to navigate layout, great choice of tracks and very affordable monthly prices. A music lover’s must-have!
For more information and to start listening today, visit: Rdio.com
What is Rara.com?
Rara.com is an online music streaming service that offers access to millions of songs via the web or Android smartphone. You can create playlists, share music, listen to music stations, enjoy the latest charts and discover new music through personal recommendations all in the one place.
What Rescu. rates it:
It only takes 30 seconds to set up an account and the website is easy to use.
What is great about Rara.com is the personalized playlist option, in which you can quickly and easily set up a playlist of all the songs that you love and share them with others!
Mobile access to Rara.com is currently only available on the Android smartphone. Hopefully with time Rara.com will become available soon on other mobile devices as iPhone, Windows and Blackberry users are missing out on using the service when out and about…
What it costs:
Rara.com web-only streaming for your first three months only, will cost you a sweet 99c per month. However, after three months the price hikes up to $7.99 per month. For web and Android mobile streaming, Rara.com will set you back $2.99 per months for the first three ONLY, then $12.99 per month following.
Rescu. Recommends:
Rara.com is a great new online music service with many personalised functions, making it easy for you to put your own stamp on the way you listen to streamed music!
For more information and to start listening today, visit: Rara.com
