CD Baby Partners with Rdio, Making Your Music Available to Fans in 13 Countries

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July 31, 2012{ 16 Comments }

Rdio Logo Gradient 300x115 CD Baby Partners with Rdio, Making Your Music Available to Fans in 13 CountriesTired of ad-supported music? Check out Rdio.

We’re excited to announce CD Baby’s new partnership with Rdio, an ad-free music subscription service available in the US, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Denmark, Sweden, Finland (and the rest of Europe soon), Brazil,  Australia, and New Zealand.

For $4.99 a month, Rdio users can stream unlimited tracks (including yours!) via a browser or desktop app. For $9.99, users are also given unlimited access to mobile streaming via smartphones, iPads, Sonos, and Roku, and caching songs for offline playback on their mobile devices.

What’s cool about Rdio?

* Rdio provides embeddable players for blogs/websites.

* Rdio is integrated with Facebook and Twitter to make social sharing and viral discovery super easy.

* Rdio has no ads! No pesky commercials will interrupt your playlist at twice the volume. (You know what I’m talking about).

* Rdio enables a seamless cross-platform experience, so you can listen on all your various devices.

* Rdio offers flexible family plan subscription tiers.  Hey, you do it with your cell phones; why not music?

If you’re an existing CD Baby artist and would like to make your music available on Rdio, log into your CD Baby members account and set your digital distribution level to “Everything That Pays.” If you’re not yet a CD Baby artist, click the link below to get started.

 Make sure your music is available on Rdio! 

 

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  • http://www.christopherbright.com/ Christopher Bright

    if my music is on the “everything that pays” option, will it be sent over to rdio automatically by cdbaby, or is there some action that i need to take to get that happening?

    thanks!

    • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

      Should be done automatically, but it wouldn’t hurt to write cdbaby@cdbaby.com and have us double-check that your album is in the “delivery queue.”

  • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

    Yes. Indeed the do. On par with most streaming companies.

  • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

    Good point. I’ll update the post. But basically, all you need to do is log into your existing CD Baby member account– and make sure your distribution preferences for your album/single are set to “Everything That Pays.”

  • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

    Hey Linn, I should’ve been clearer in the original post. Basically, you want to set your digital distribution level to “Anything that pays” or higher. If you’ve got that taken care of already, you’re all set. We’ll deliver your music to Rdio automatically.

  • Kdathov

    Makes me just feel like duplicating or replicating my USB radio/tv drive made in China and start selling them thru cdbaby. With its 9000 radio and 2000 tv stations, we can sell these at a pretty good mark-up. Plus China can`t sue us. They wrote the book on piracy themselves!:))

  • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

    Log into your members account. Then go to the particular album you want opt in and click “view/edit.” In the album dashboard area, click “Distribution Options” under “Digital Distribution.” You can select your distro level there.

  • Ricky Barnes

    Love the option as well. ‘But logged on – found all the buttons – and the web-page would not allow me to click the button. It simply wouldn’t work. :( Maybe the site was being overwhelmed?

    • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

      Hmmm. Have you tried since? It’s possible we were doing some maintenance at the time.

  • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

    Yeah. So far we’ve just put it on here: http://members.cdbaby.com/digital-distribution-partners.aspx

    • RexStrother

      Yeah – why the secrecy (okay, I know it’s not a secret). And why no mention of the Sony Music Unlimited? These are both new partners, right? And no mention of the loss of Verizon? Any reason I’ve got to “dig” to find out what’s up at CD Baby with digital partners?

      • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

        Not trying to keep anything hush-hush. I think it’s just a matter of us concentrating on a few other messages (sync deal, higher YTD earnings for artists, etc.). Maybe we’re overdue for a Omnifone/Sony announcement.

  • iAmJasonPaul

    How long does it take for the songs to come available on Rdio? I released something a week ago and it was on Spotify and iTunes within 2 days. I’m still waiting to see it on Rdio…

    • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

      They generally post stuff within days of receiving it from us. If you check your delivery history and have not yet been delivered, write cdbaby@cdbaby.com and we can try to put your album towards the front of the delivery queue.

  • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

    Yeah. We can try to do some more frequent partner announcements. As for the order, it’s probably a bit random—but for the giants beings weighted at the very top, of course.

  • http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley

    The on-demand streaming fees—I agree—are small, but we do not set them. We’re acting as the distributor, and as such, want you to make as much money as possible. Many of our artists like to offer their music on those types of sites because of their popularity with music listeners, and they want the exposure. If you don’t feel like the streaming model benefits your music career, you can always elect to have CD Baby send your music to the digital music sites who pay fixed rates for downloads.