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Play Rdio.com song streaming

I'm trying to implement online music search and sample streaming features for an iOS app: the user may be able to search music by song name/artist/album and reproduce them. I found Rdio.com looks promising, however, can't figure out a way to solve this.

The streaming API expects a key, such as

[rdio.player playSource:@"t2742133"];

but I'm having difficulties to trace how can I get the key "t2742133" for a given song, as it seems there's no documented method for getting a song metadata based on its name. Anyone experienced with Rdio.com could tell if there's a (relatively) straight forward way to get a song info by its name, and which would be the main steps to take?

Solution

  • Couldn't find a direct method for the iOS sdk, but for searching purposes there's a REST api instead.-

    http://developer.rdio.com/docs/REST/

    The responses include track ids that can be passed to iOS api streaming method.