cdeviney said:

 
See post # 157 of this thread.

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Meh.

I use Spotify and Rdio, I gotta say I love Rdio

Rdio sounds quality is?

Rdio uses 192kbps MP3 at the moment, but they're apparently in the process of converting to 320kbps AAC.

In case someone finds this thread in a search -- Rdio switched to AAC and subscribers can select up to 320 kbps:
 
http://blog.rdio.com/us/2014/10/introducing-high-quality-aac-audio-across-the-globe.html

uzi said:

  In case someone finds this thread in a search -- Rdio switched to AAC and subscribers can select up to 320 kbps:
 
http://blog.rdio.com/us/2014/10/introducing-high-quality-aac-audio-across-the-globe.html

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Is ALL content finally converted to 320? 

uzi said:

  In case someone finds this thread in a search -- Rdio switched to AAC and subscribers can select up to 320 kbps:
 
http://blog.rdio.com/us/2014/10/introducing-high-quality-aac-audio-across-the-globe.html

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Fired it up again, been a little while since I've had RDIO going. 
 
I'll keep up with it, see how she treats me. I always liked Rdio. Spotify's mass of curated playlists has me entranced at the moment, but I know Rdio's AAC will sound better than Spotify's notoriously unreliable OGG compressions...

fallingreason said:

   
Is ALL content finally converted to 320? 

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From the blog post: "Today we’re happy to announce we’ve converted our entire catalog of over 30 million songs to high-quality AAC audio." ... so it sounds like it.  (Related: I'm no longer working at Rdio, having left 6 months ago for a new adventure.)

Good to know. Tidal just came in. That offers completely uncompressed music

soamusing777 said:

Good to know. Tidal just came in. That offers completely uncompressed music

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$19.99/month ... OUCH !!!
 
We have four members on the AT&T Family plan and we have BEATS for $14.99 on up to 10 devices.
 
Up to five members can share an account.

cdeviney said:

$19.99/month ... OUCH !!!

We have four members on the AT&T Family plan and we have BEATS for $14.99 on up to 10 devices.

Up to five members can share an account.

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I know. It's too much.

soamusing777 said:

I know. It's too much.

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Beats 320 kbps is plenty good enough for me !
 
I am too old to have 'dog ears' hearing sensitivity

It's just a shame Beats is a terrible service. :/

My vote would be for Google's all access service for now. When my free Spotify subscription runs out (6months), I'll be switching.
Google - Great customer support
- over 30 million songs
- 320kbps quality in MP3 CBR (currently finding out the LAME format/codec for this)
- 20,000 song upload
- Depending on the MP3 type http://soundexpert.org/encoders-320-kbps it actually will have the best quality if it's CBR lame 3.97b2. EDIT UPDATE: Just got an email back from Google. Said they use CBR, but not sure on the numbers. She said that was more on the developer side. Will update once I find out.
- No offline song Limit
 
RDIO - just upgraded all it's stuff to 320kbps AAC
- Over 30mill songs
- Who knows if it's upsampled or original 320kbps. I emailed them.
- No offline song limit as well as NO DEVICE LIMIT (only one to do this)
 
RHAPSODY (Acquired Napster not too long ago) -
- 320kbps on mobile, but not on desktop yet. That comes in the next update, which who knows when.
- They use 320kbps when the provider allows or if not possible, upsamples older music.
- Not sure what format. Won't specify. I believe it's WMA though.
- No offline song limit
 
SONY MUSIC UNLIMITED - uses 320kbps AAC
- Bad customer service
- iffy IU, especially offline.
- No offline song limit
** Can't even talk to anyone about it on the phone. Hard to get in contact with them as well so no details on the origin of the AAC.

SPOTIFY - 10,000 offline limit
- 320KBPS ogg vorbis (although I've read Google and Sony's music has better quality so maybe they are upsampling lower quality files)
- idk how much of a library (20-22million?).
 
DEEZER - is also coming stateside sometime soon
- is the largest subscription service worldwide boasting over 35mil songs
- has lossless as well as 24bit master tracks for download when available
 
As I mentioned before TIDAL is now available stateside (it comes from WiMP overseas)
- $20 for lossless
- the song labeling and search feature isn't up to par yet.

Google has one dealbreaker problem: it ANNIHILATES data on cell. If you pull up a playlist or an album it starts caching the entire thing. This is a slight problem when I'm at the gym and bouncing between stuff because within 2 minutes I've used up 100mb of data. 
 
Used it on my iPhone and literally a minute into the first song on a playlist I'd burned up 40mb. Absurd.