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Comment by benschwarz | Hacker News Reader

Wait… so you stopped using rdio because you didn't like the design, but you chose spotify? ARE YOU BLIND MAN?

Spotify isn't beautiful but at least it's not like staring right into the sun.

Not only is Spotify ugly, it's nearly unusable in my opinion. Today I was trying to navigate to a friend's playlist and was unable to do so from the list of my Facebook friends. The web presence for the playlist had no titles, and the first time I tried to open it in the app it failed.

I did not like Rdio's re-design at first, but it has grown on me more than I thought it would.

Rdio wins hands-down for social/sharing features. That's the thing I miss the most. On Spotify I'm pretty much solo.

Spotify's other killer feature is local sync on the laptop. I'm usually dependent on crappy hotel/cafe wifi and Rdio just chokes.

Spotify's killer feature is that you don't have to exit the app and switch to a different app to play music that they don't have.

True, there are also a few of my favorite bands on Spotify that Rdio doesn't have. Rdio seem like they haven't gotten a hold of certain indie labels. I've considered switching to a paid Spotify account just because of that.

Spotify had a terrible Android app for a while, so I switched to Rdio. Then Spotify really improved their app so I considered them again, but now Rdio's app is even better. Hmm...

Also, Rdio has a "family plan" type thing. My wife and I both have accounts, so we get a discount.

I don't take too much advantage of this because I can already find more than enough stuff to listen to there but it can be handy sometimes it's true.

Nearly all monitors have a backlight brightness control.

Most monitor backlights have a threshold at which they can't go any dimmer without being shut off.

He has an opinion.

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