Is Rdio the American Spotify...or not?

I use both Spotify and Rdio (and have a professional interest in both, as both are customers of my employer). Either one is easily worth $20/month, so I have no problem paying $10/each for both. I think it's pretty uncontroversial to note that Spotify still has a slight advantage in catalog, and that Rdio's UI is more elegant. For me, personally, the UI is the more interesting factor, because even though there seem to be slightly more tracks that are on Spotify but not Rdio (although there are some the other way, too), there are enough things on neither service that you should still expect to do some out-of-service music acquisition whatever you pick.

i like this more than spotify i think

I am very pro rdio. what they are missing compared to spotify is pretty negligible and it just runs sooooo much smoother for me. on all platforms. plus it looks a hell of a lot better. search function is better as well (allows searching by label for instance).

i like that i can control it from anywhere

Bought by Pandora, being wound down, likely.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151116006169/en/Pandora-Acquire-Key-Assets-Rdio

I've got a few friends who are Rdio loyalists and they're really bummed about this (but they only started talking about it today, so the news came to me late).

not, then