Tag archive: Slacker

If you’re looking for another source of music in the crowed sea of internet radio providers, you might do well to take a listen to what Sonos and Slacker Radio have to say. Both companies have teamed up and as of today Slacker Radio services are now available on Sonos wireless music systems. Of course with so many internet radio options to choose from, why should Sonos customers and internet music lovers care? Put simply, Sonos and Slacker Radio… Read More

This mornings Facebook f8 developers conference covered all of the speculation that's been building up for weeks. We break down the big changes on their way. Timeline There’s been something of a catastrophic backlash from users outraged at Facebook’s recent changes to the site, namely the updated New Feed algorithm as well as the ticker. But Zuckerberg didn’t shy away from the controversy and announced some big changes to the “heart of… Read More

A Spotify rep has contacted us saying it will announce its stateside debut tomorrow morning. As assumed, it will be available via invitation and subscription, so all those who took to the site and signed up for early invite will likely be notified (the invite request is still open on the site). That's all the music streaming service is giving us for the moment but it says more details will be available tomorrow 8 AM EST. It's been a… Read More

The latest buzz in the social media, music streaming, and developer circles is no doubt the recently-launched (but still in semi-private beta) Turntable.fm. In the most basic terms, it's something like a social and interactive Pandora radio. The Internet application streams music in a large number of different 'rooms' where users function as DJs. The interface incorporates everything from cutesy avatars and a voting system, to… Read More

Spotify is starting to look like the boy who cried wolf. After trying to introduce a US version for two years, and despite the months of “imminent US launch” whispers we’ve endured, it once again sounds like Spotify is about to arrive stateside. As usual, there is some pretty solid evidence to back this up: AllThingsD reports that the European music streaming phenom has just closed a $100 million round of fundraising (raising its valuation to… Read More

Internet radio service Slacker launched its Premium Radio service today, giving the brand a three-tiered service that aims to provide the best in Internet radio, personalized stations, and on-demand listening. Before today, the company offered free Internet radio and artist stations for basic users, as well as an upgraded, customizable and ad-free radio service for $3.99 per month. With the new Premium Radio service, which will cost $9.99 per… Read More

It all started with Pandora back in 2000, but now the Internet is swamped with music downloading services, streaming sites, and Internet radio. Yes, you probably have a music library at home and on-the-go with your smartphone or iPod, but Internet radio is one of the best ways to change things up and discover new artists. We've rounded up the best free Internet radio services and highlighted what makes each of them unique. Willing to drop… Read More

Customized streaming radio stations from the likes of Slacker, Last.fm and Pandora might cater more to individual taste than FM radio, but up until now, they’ve also been missing a large piece of the tuned-in experience: news. Slacker will attempt to restore those timely nuggets of information by adding ABC News beside its considerable stable of music content. The new option lets Slacker listeners pepper in top-of-the-hour news updates into… Read More

Guess what little gem of an internet radio station is now available for webOS—Slacker, of course! You really only had a few options with that guess. Slacker, Inc. today announced the Slacker Radio Mobile app for Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi and Palm Pixi Plus smartphones. Palm-smartphone-toting music lovers can now officially rejoice.

It’s going on a year since Slacker first announced its rather chunky Internet radio player, and in the mean time, it looks like designers have broken out the shrink ray for a second attempt. On Tuesday, Slacker announced the new G2 player, which brings a rounded shape, smaller footprint and several new features to the Internet radio services’ arsenal. Most notably, the unit has gone from over 4 inches tall to less… Read More

You know when your MP3 files are a mess. You have albums by The Beatles, Beatles, and Betles, four copies of the same song in different bitrates, and your friends are boggled by the files in your collection with names like 593_afeerb.mp3 and grtst_Hits_TRACK1_.mp3. It's time to clean them up, but like the junk drawer in your kitchen, the still-packed moving boxes in your basement, or the decade's worth of old clothes in your… Read More

Complex as they are, traditional MP3 players really don’t amount to much more than ultra-condensed CD libraries. Whether they have flash drives or hard drives, LCD screens or OLED screens, use buttons or scroll wheels, they all function as digital trunks for holding music. Drop your songs in, play them, and change them up when you get sick of them. For those who already have substantial collections of unprotected digital music, this model… Read More

Self-styled "personal radio" operator Slacker announced itself with big fanfare earlier this year, offering a Web-based streaming music service and claiming it would offer Web-based music, WiFi-enabled portable music players, and even satellite ratio; the company then brought on XM Radio co-funder Lon Levin as an advisor and said it would have gear ready later in 2007. Today, Slacker made good on some of those promises, announcing… Read More

In a true David and Goliath story, the newly formed Slacker Music Service that hopes to take on the likes of Apple, and satellite radio companies XM and Sirius Radio, announced that they have added XM Radio co-founder Lon Levin as a company advisor. Slacker is a number of things including a free ad-supported internet music service that lets you stream your favorite music using a standard web browser. The company also plans to launch a PC… Read More

A new digital music service is emerging from stealth mode, and looks like it it not only wants to take on Apple's iTunes music service and iPod media player, but also take a stab at online music services like Pandora and go toe-to-toe with satellite-based music offerings like XM and Sirius. Slacker, from Broadband Instruments, has launched a beta of its browser-based music service today, which (on registration) offers free… Read More