Has Anybody Heard of Slacker Radio and If So What Do You Think?

Question

My friend is interviewing for a job at slacker.com and I'm wondering what it's all about since this is the first time I've heard of it.

I've gone to the website and checked it out and it sounds cool, but I'm wondering if anybody knows any more about it or has listened to it all. Have they been around awhile. Are they affiliated with a larger company like Microsoft or Google, etc.? What do you think of the radio stations?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Slacker is a free online music service that you can access from your computer or via their new portable music service.

They are not affiliated with a larger company, they are privately owned.

They have been around since the beginning of 2007.

I think the radio stations are the best that I have heard online for both free or paid services.

Answer 2

I don't know the corporate layout over there but I do know their plans have changed over the little less than a year I've been a user since a buddy turned me on to them.

Radio stations can be custom made for an individual user using artist names so technically a station can be built upon most of a listeners likes and dislikes. There are also stock radio stations on the site comparable to say a sirius or xm in music quality IMO.

The orginal plan was for custom artist streaming basically through a sat based service but has moved to a player based service that will be preloaded with songs, and allows the user to update it from a computer to change the songs up occasionally once burn out sets in.

Personally, I'd love to have seen their original idea come as competition to say XM/Sirius merger, but apparently the cost was too much and they have backed the player instead.

But personally I like it more than pandora as I can control the artists and what it plays a lot finer in detail.

Answer 3

gearbox answered it well.  You can go online and download their player and play around with it a little bit.  Did you happen to have something called "Click Radio" in the late 90s?  Slacker does kind of the same thing, where you can love/ban specific songs or artists, to customize your listening experience.

The portable player lets you take your music on the go.  You can download content onto the player's flash memory cache, and play it back.