![]() Slacker’s approach to music similarity is based more on artists than on individual songs, and you create and customize your own stations primarily by selecting what artists play on them, and marking songs as favorite or banned.Īlso, in addition to customizable stations, Slacker comes with a lineup of genre stations which are managed by professional programmers - while the actual playback is automatic and you can tweak it somewhat, the master list of tracks available is up to the Slacker programmers.īoth services have a large catalog of music I think Pandora tends to have more trance/electronica, but I’m not 100% sure about that. Slacker, on the other hand, is sort of a hybrid of the Pandora approach with traditional radio. With Pandora you start with an artist or song, and your channel evolves from that using the music genome to find similar songs, adjusted by your preferences. Pandora is basically a showcase of the Music Genome Project, which aims to come up with a “genetic code” for music which identifies similarities and influences without relying on arbitrary genre tags. ![]() Januat 11:39 The main difference between Pandora and Slacker is how they select content. 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. You can also search for specific songs and stations using the search feature. ![]()
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