![]() The Slacker Radio application for iPhone and Touch can be found here: I’m not ditching my Slacker G2 radio anytime soon, but this free iPhone app is an easy way for people to check out Slacker’s service if they’ve not yet tried it. If you’re listening regularly though, the next song will queue up normally, without a noticeable lag. It can take 15-20 seconds to start playing the new song after pressing skip. There is a lag when you skip a song and it has to load a new one. Yay EDGE! But so far this afternoon that hasn’t happened again. No clipping, hissing, or anything like that.Īt one point this morning, it quit playing and was having troubles loading music. I can’t tell an obvious difference between listening to my regular tracks through the iPod app with the streaming songs through Slacker. So far so good… I’ve been listening to it for several hours today. I still have the original (non 3G) iPhone, so I was curious as to how well this streaming application would perform on AT&T’s EDGE network. Pressing this button or the ban button will just cause the song to either play more often, or not at all. The main difference between using your iPhone to listen to Slacker Radio and having an actual Slacker G2 device, is that you can’t copy a song to your library by pressing the heart button. If you like what you hear, there’s a link to launch iTunes to display the artist’s albums and songs for purchase. ![]() You can read more info about the artist and album. Premium users can skip as many times as they like. If you don’t have a premium account, you can skip 6 songs per hour, per station. Skipping to the next song with this app works the same as on the personal radio. If you drag it too far, it is like pressing the skip button and will load and play that track. You can drag the top album to the Left to see more of the bottom album. It’s the album art for the next song to play. See the album art sliver on the right side? The iPhone app doesn’t do this, but it does give you a ‘peek’ at the next song. On the Slacker G2 Personal Radio, the now playing screen shows the name of the next song to play. The now playing screen shows the album art for the currently playing song, along with the title and artist’s name. Pandora, Slacker continues to offer a free Basic Radio service, and the company still has an ad-free Slacker Radio Plus tier for $4 per month (previously $5 a month unless you paid for the whole year at a time).You can also search for specific songs and stations using the search feature. Slacker has also refreshed its Website to reflect the new features. The newfound mobile functionality comes courtesy of an updated, universal iOS app (as well as new apps for Android and BlackBerry customers) that provides a new interface and new features across all tiers of Slacker’s service. In addition to streaming, mobile users can cache songs, albums, playlists, or even entire stations for offline playback. They also have the ability to tag and play Favorites view song lyrics peek ahead at upcoming streaming artists, songs, and albums and more. Premium Radio subscribers can refine stations to play only songs from a particular artist. A new station creator on the Web and in the mobile apps lets all Slacker users create stations based on a single artist or with loads of hand-picked artists.
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