How can I discover music?
If you’re looking for new music, there are a ton of ways to discover it on Rdio — check out the following for a few ideas.
View Your Recommendations
Use the Browse Music menu in the site header to check out New Releases, Top Charts, and Recommendations.
The Recommendations page provides a list of artists similar to those in your recently played music and Heavy Rotation. Want more recommendations? Click the “reload recommendations” button to refresh the list.
Listen to Stations
Stations are the perfect way to “sit back and listen”. You can quickly create a shuffled mix of songs from any Artist’s page, Collection, Heavy Rotation (yours, your network’s, or anyone else’s on Rdio).
Just click the “Play Station” button anywhere you find it on the site.
On an Artist’s page, click play to listen to a radio-like selection of the Artist and similar music, or turn recommendations off for a shuffled mix of music from that Artist only.
You can also click the play button in the header of artist’s page to start listening to an Artist-Only station directly.
For more on this topic, see our article on Stations.
Find Similar Artists
In the right-sidebar of most artist pages you can view a listing of “similar” and “inspired by” artists. You’ll also see a “Member of” if the artist is connected to another band.
Follow, follow, follow!
You never know what you might find in other peoples’ profiles, collections and playlists.
You don’t have to be best friends to follow someone — take a look at our People to Follow page for inspiration. There you’ll find Influencers, Suggested Users, and Top Listeners.
Also, following users with similar (or enviable) music taste is great for discovery (and your network’s Heavy Rotation). Hover over a user’s icon anywhere on Rdio — a review, an album’s recent listeners, your friends’ followers — and you’ll see the hovercard appear.
Click the arrow to see their Heavy Rotation, Top Artists and collection details.
Explore Rdio Further
Subscribe: See what collections (and connections) other Rdio users are putting together by subscribing to their playlists. You can find popular playlists by hovering over the Browse Music link and selecting Top Charts — once you’re there, click the Playlists sub-tab.
Collaborate: What other music might fit well in your playlist? Enable the Collaborate feature and improve your playlists with other peoples’ help.
See what’s new: Dive into New Music Tuesday, and sort through the week’s favorite new releases. The Rdio blog and the NMT Playlists.
What about genres?
Some of your favorite unheard music probably transcends genre. If you’re still missing genres after using these tips, please send us your thoughts.