Rdio has launched Rdio Select.

Rdio Select offers:

  • $3.99 (US)
  • Ad-free DMCA radio
  • endless stations based on any artist, song, genre, label, and more, along with You FM, an individual’s own personalized station
  • No back skips or rewinding, but unlimited forward skips
  • 320 kbps sound, same that is offered to Rdio subscribers
  • A library of 25 songs that you can listen to on-demand and sync for offline use.
  • Rdio will be supporting this with paid and partner marketing.
  • Rdio’s label marketing and curation teams are working with partners to program exclusive “Select” playlists which will be pushed to users. Reach out to your Rdio representative for me details.

The retail pricing is :
USA: 3.99
Canada: 3.99
Australia: 4.39
South Africa: 24.00
New Zealand: 5.19
India: 60Rs

At these price points, Pandora One is a dollar more yet only features 2 million songs, has skip limits, and no on-demand.

All RouteNote artists who select Rdio as a store will opt-in automatically to this new offering.

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