{"id":149919,"date":"2015-12-16T07:17:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T05:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=149919"},"modified":"2015-12-16T07:19:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T05:19:56","slug":"rdio-shutdown-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/149919-rdio-shutdown-date-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Rdio shutdown date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rdio has sent a mail to its clients, informing them the music service will shutdown on 22 December.<\/p>\n<p>This follows an announcement by\u00a0Pandora that it had agreed\u00a0to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/146303-pandora-buys-rdio.html\" target=\"_blank\">acquire several key assets<\/a><\/strong> from Rdio for $75 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the course of five years, Rdio has grown to become a global community of music lovers.\u00a0As part of the acquisition, the Rdio service will be shutting down worldwide on December 22, 2015 at approximately 5pm PST,&#8221; said Rdio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know you want to find a home for the music you\u2019ve discovered and collected on Rdio, so we\u2019re providing ways for you to take it with you. Visit rdio.com\/farewell and log in with your Rdio account for more information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0streaming<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/148827-vidi-slashes-video-streaming-prices.html\">Vidi slashes video streaming prices<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/148123-vu-video-streaming-rebadged-mtn-frontrow-with-cheaper-prices.html\">VU video streaming \u2013\u00a0rebadged MTN FrontRow with cheaper prices<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rdio has sent a mail to its clients, informing them the music service will soon close its doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":93465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,13063,7929,7931],"class_list":["post-149919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-music-streaming","tag-pandora","tag-rdio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149921,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149919\/revisions\/149921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}