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"Rdio this morning announced that its on-demand music subscription and discovery service is now available to users in Spain and Portugal. \r\n\r\nFor the US-based startup, which was created by Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstr\u00F6m and Janus Friis, this marks its second and third expansion to Europe after debuting in Germany in January 2012.\r\n\r\nIt also means Rdio is entering a country where Spotify - arguably its main rival globally - is available after the latter's (late) debut in the United States, where Rdio had been available long before Spotify.\r\n\r\nFor the record, the free version of Spotify is available in Spain but not (yet) in Portugal, although I gather Portuguese citizens with credit cards or PayPal accounts can sign up for the premium version.\r\n\r\nRdio is now available in the US, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand. In the launch blog post, the company notes that &amp;quot;this is just the beginning&amp;quot;.\r\n\r\nThe service lets users access a catalog of roughly 12 million songs, charging \u20AC4.99 per month for Web-only access and \u20AC9.99 per month for Unlimited (Web and mobile) access. \r\n\r\nRdio is available on the Web, Mac and PC desktops, the iPad, iPod touch, loads of smartphones (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7) and at home in the Sonos wireless audio system.\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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