Today, Rdio streaming music subscribers with Unlimited accounts will get access to new video service from the company called, appropriately, Vdio. (It had previously been in a closed beta.) It's a rental and purchasing platform—not a subscription service—but it incorporates the social and content discovery features…

Siri isn't all that helpful when it comes to doing stuff you actually want to do on your iPhone, like search Spotify for example. But a voice-control app called Vela can fill that void.

Sometimes sentiments are best expressed musically. Understanding that, BuzzFeed has added an Rdio button that lets you react to any post with a song. How cool is that?

We've known that Microsoft has been working on a music service for a while now, and we finally got a chance to check it out first hand. Xbox Music is exactly what you'd want in a streaming service and store. It's complete in a way that Spotify, Amazon, and even iTunes aren't. Microsoft's new music platform is…

In the early days of the web, the technology space was flush with not only money, but a specific type of optimism: that this new medium would allow anybody to make whatever they wanted, and have the world see it (assuming it was any good). This was before Facebook, of course. If you wanted to put something out there,…

Broadcasting your mortifying taste in music with absolutely every human you know has always been an opt-in/opt-out choice for Spotify users—eve with the music streaming service's required Facebook account-linking.

News spread this morning that MOG has been purchased by HTC/Beats Audio for $10 million, which probably was not the payout the Berkeley-based company was hoping for (disclosure: I used to work there once upon a time). And while Spotify appears destined to win the streaming music wars (as far as subscription services…

One of the best things about road trips is all the music you get to listen to. So. Many. Good. Jams. But if you're on a long trip, you might find yourself running out of good songs to play. Roadtrip Mixtape is here to help build a playlist for your drive based on each city you pass through.

Rdio's totally redesigned browser and desktop app interface made what was already basically the best-organized streaming service even cleaner. Ostensibly, it puts albums artists and songs first. But really, it's putting you and your experience at the top of its priorities list. Now it's available to everyone.