Rdio aims to steal listeners from Pandora with new personalized ‘stations’

Streaming music service Rdio has updated its customized radio stations to add more features and top billing, a clear push to attract Pandora listeners to its apps.

Rdio provides a catalog of more than 20 million songs you can stream with a single click, but it also wants to offer radio-like experiences for people don’t want to pick all the songs themselves. Streaming music competitor Spotify has also pushed to do the same.

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Here are some of the new features you get with Rdio’s Stations:

• Station types: You can create a station from 10 different types to create a long list of favorite stations that can draw from more than 20 million songs. You can create a station by selecting an artist or song to draw from, or you can pick from about 400 subgenres to get your jams flowing.
• New player: A redesigned player lets you vote on individual songs, tune stations toward familiar or new sounds, and changes stations based on your fave tracks.
• You FM: Created with help from The Echo Nest, You FM is a personalized station that leverages your listening history, voting, Facebook likes, Twitter follows, and more to create what could be the most personalized station ever.
• Social discovery: As Rdio is known for social integration, Stations wouldn’t be right if it didn’t do social. Stations lets you play station based your friends’ listening history, or you can pick a specific friend’s station to give a spin.

The new updates Stations feature is available for Rdio’s iOS, Android, and Web apps today.