Rdio (pronounced “ar-dee-oh”) let us know that they’ve added support for the Curve 85XX, Storm and Torch. If you’re not familiar with them, Rdio is a subscription music service that lets you listen to as much music as you want from the web or your phone, even when you’re offline. The service also has a social component that lets you discover music through friends or influencers.
Rdio Unlimited costs $9.99/month, and supports both web and mobile use. Rdio Web costs $4.99/month, and supports web use only. Check out Rdio at this link.
Noah Shebib, a Canadian producer and engineer says, “All of Drake’s raps, for eternity, have all been written inside of a BlackBerry. I mean [it’s] to the point where if he doesn’t have a BlackBerry, we gotta go get somebody who’s got one.” He adds “I’ve even had dummy BlackBerrys around to pull out for him to write on if he needs one.”
Rhapsody is a pretty cool music subscription service that lets you find music and play for a monthly fee. Users have been waiting for a BlackBerry app and now one is available in beta form. The app allows you to:
Search or browse for your favorites – Find the artist, album or track you want. Browse new releases, staff picks, charts and more. Play any song you find with one tap.
Listen while you text, surf and play – BlackBerry lets you run simultaneous apps, so you’ll be able to have your music rolling no matter what you’re doing.
Tune in to Rhapsody Radio – Listen to a station that’s programmed around your favorite artist or genre. Kick back and listen to a great mix of music.
Coming soon to the app is an Unlimited Downloading feature which will allow you to listen to music when you don’t have an active connection.
Download the beta by heading to rhapsody.com from your device.
The artist Riz made a video called “PING!!! Me Baby” using just a BBM screen and the song, whether you like it or not, is guaranteed to get stuck in your head. Along with the video release is a contest that Riz is hosting on his site where you can win a BlackBerry Bold. In order to get your free MP3 download of the song and chance to win the Bold, watch the new video for “PING!!! Me Baby” and answer three questions correctly. All the answers will be found in the video itself.
Slacker was at Pepcom 2010 demonstrating an upcoming update to the app/platform that is rolling out in October. The newest features to the app include On-Demand service, deeper search for artists, albums and genres, better integration with the Torch and BlackBerry 6 and more options for building and managing your stations/playlists.
Slacker has grown to a behemoth database of music that caters to a wide range of tastes. I like to test the app with obscure bands and remixes and as time progresses the database gets easier to search. For example, you used to not be able to find Chromeo remixes in Slacker, but now there’s a DJ whose job it is to hunt down these tracks and put them up. One such guy on the Slacker team is @partyben. Check him out in the Slacker forums. If you don’t like his stuff, you can always browse the forums, find admins who share similar music tastes, and maybe they’re on Twitter sharing their updates.
If RIM bought Viigo for its RSS and feed aggregation, what about RIM buying Slacker to compete in the music space? They are after all on a buying streak. More screenshots after the break.
We’ll have a deeper look at these features with a walkthrough coming soon.
Spinfuse is a free loop based music sequencer, beat maker, and ringtone creator app for BlackBerry that has recently gone out as a public beta. The app is accompanied by a website that will let users exchange sounds and discuss their Spinfuse projects. Users will be able to upload and download completed songs, loops, and ringtones made with Spinfuse and rate each other’s work directly from within the Spinfuse application. The current beta release doesn’t have the website functionality but it’s cool to see the direction they’re going in.
