Slacker Radio Offers Up Music Alternative

Slacker Internet Radio

In the battle for music player supremacy, many online music players have burst onto the scene. Now recently I’ve personally been a fan of Pandora and still support them, but other entries like imeem, and Last.fm just couldn’t grab my attention. Recently a music player that I had previously tossed into the pile of the above mentioned, uninteresting players, Slacker radio.

Slacker radio offers up an interesting hybrid of both online streaming music from pre-existing stations, the ability to create your own playlists, and functions as a shop for products that allow you to take Slacker radio with you everywhere you go. Both a web app and a  mobile app, Slacker does a great job with providing an easy to navigate user interface and a decent list of stations ready to play as soon as you create an account. The stations are divided into categories offering up something for everyone, if not just a taste of the power of this application.

Like Pandora used to function, Slacker radio offers up a free account where users can listen to music and even favorite, ban, and skip songs, but on a limited basis. So far on the free account this has not become a problem, but I’ve just been using the account for two days. There is also a pay level that starts at $3.99 a month, which is easily attractive for those of us that like to create our own playlists.

Billed monthly or in one lump some, Slacker radio is an excellent web based music player. On the mobile you have access to the entire library and every time you hit a wifi spot or internet connection the stations updated themselves from Slacker’s expanding database of available music. Not having a smartphone is easily solved with the portable music players they offer on the site that offer a unique interface to stream and listen to your favorite artists.

I’m loving what I’m seeing on my iPhone and looking forward to seeing future upgrades. While I’m still a fan of Pandora, the 40 hours a month cap is limiting and I can easily go through that in a week. Slacker radio is easily the next best one in the lineup.