I went to slacker.com because I had no idea we were enrolled either and clicked forgot pwd, reset it from an email, then clicked on subscription. It showed we were enrolled through Verizon and then allowed me to click on cancel subscription! Finally! After months of calling customer care!
My phone recently installed an upgrade and through this upgrade it installed Slacker radio but now its not letting me uninstall it!!! I have tried everything I can possible think of any new ideas would help please its really bugging me now...
That's word filter avoidance. . I force quit several Verizon loaded bloatware (skype, city Id (most useless turd ever), slacker, stock Facebook) but they restart themselves almost right away. Nice try.
Slacker Radio's Fine Tune area has toggles (for turning on/off the Slacker DJ, and ESPN and News updates), and a slider that lets you adjust the ratio of hits to discovery within a given station. On the topic of Slacker Radio's DJs, the service's human-curated content is top-notch; the DJs add gravitas to many of the themed stations such as Pharrell: DNA. There I learned that "Hollaback Girl" was Gwen Stefani's response to a perceived diss from Hole's Courtney Love. This type of background information makes Slacker Radio feel like an old school radio station, but without the grating morning zoo crews.
The Current has partnered with the interactive internet radio service Slacker Radio to bring you a whole new way to experience our unique mix of music. Visit The Current's station on Slacker Radio's site and explore what we have to offer with this new service, which combines the hand-picked music and personality of The Current with the personalized and customized experience of Slacker Radio.
Internet radio is a rapidly growing platform for accessing audio content. We think this is a great opportunity to expose emerging music artists to new audiences while also bringing The Current to new audiences and platforms. The Current often hears from listeners in other parts of the country, "I wish we had a station like The Current here," and working with Slacker Radio enables them to get closer to being able to experience that.
American Public Media is committed to making its indispensible content as accessible as possible to as many people as possible. Internet radio is a rapidly growing platform for accessing audio content, and represents an important opportunity for exposing our content to new audiences and expanding access to our content via new platforms.
In an attempt to stand out from the crowd in what is becoming an increasingly busy space, internet radio platform Slacker Radio has announced that its updated app, which is available today, will now be heavily promoting and highlighting the original programming that the company has been creating for some time now.
Many radio services offer hundreds of curated playlists, and while Slacker does as well, this is the next step in giving people more to stream. A quick listen through a few of the company's shows reveals that many of them have the feel of old-school timeslots that DJs have always had, but which have faded from many people's minds as they've switched over to all-you-can-eat services like Spotify, Apple Music, and the like. They might not be the best way to consume as much music as possible, but the varied programs are fun, interesting, and in a way, comforting, as they take the listener back to when radio was the best way to learn about music and discover new tunes, and the when the man or woman behind the microphone was thought of as the seemingly all-knowing guide. Because this is an online radio service, all of the shows are audio-only, and they are focused heavily on music and artists themselves.
Artist Showcase stations feature a diverse and growing array of genres, emphasizing Slacker's dedication to being the ultimate personalized radio and music discovery resource. From chart-topping acts including AFI, Justin Moore, Patrick Stump, Plain White T's and Far East Movement to underground favorites, there is something for every musical taste on Slacker Radio.
AFI Showcasewww.Slacker.com/RadioAFIWhich member of AFI believes radio stations should have a quota of The Smiths? Who is Jade's biggest musical influence? AFI shares these tidbits on their Showcase station, along with their favorite songs by The Clash, A Perfect Circle, Green Day, Jay-Z and more.
About Slacker, Inc.Slacker offers the world's most complete range of radio services, from millions of songs to custom content from ESPN Radio, ABC News and much more. Whether it's the award-winning free Slacker Basic Radio, the fully-loaded Slacker Radio Plus, or Slacker Premium offering on-demand access to Slacker's music catalog, listeners enjoy a unique, custom listening experience. Slacker enables music lovers to play highly personalized music online at the Slacker web site, in Ford vehicles with SYNC AppLink, on connected home devices or on-the-go with free Slacker Personal Radio applications. Slacker mobile applications are available for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry smartphones and more. For additional information visit:
Slacker, the critically praised interactive radio service our readers helped us discover in '07, plans to launch an on-demand subscription service combining elements of Pandora, Rhapsody and Spotify in the next few months, Wired.com has learned from a well-placed source whose statements were confirmed by a Slacker spokesman.
What do you want out of your service? Do you want to stream preset radio stations or design your own with songs and artists you choose? Are you looking to buy music or just listen? Do you want it to stream through your mobile device or your computer?
Slacker is the first radio service to feature ESPN Radio in a personalized context, with up-to-the-minute coverage of all major sporting events and top news stories on both a local and national level. The interactive ESPN Radio station also offers access to content from multiple ESPN programs and platforms, including Mike and Mike in the Morning, SportsCenter, The Herd with Colin Cowherd and more.
The complete Slacker Radio experience includes expert-programmed music stations, ABC news, comedy, custom artist-hosted showcase stations and leading music festival stations along with the ability for listeners to create their own personalized radio stations. Slacker Premium Radio also includes on-demand access to the entire Slacker music library featuring over 8 million songs. The addition of ESPN to its increasing line-up of stations and services reinforces that Slacker Radio has the most varied and compelling range of customizable content offered by any radio service, while maintaining the most personal listening experience.
Slacker Radio is a membership music streaming service that was launched in 2007 and is known for its personalized radio stations. Slacker currently has a paid and free ad-supported membership base of more than 3 million, according to a pres release. Read more.
Interactive radio service Slacker announced Tuesday that it will provide interactive stations for AOL Radio, a part of newly-formed "The AOL Huffington Post Media Group's AOL Music" -- apparently named by whoever came up with "Ruth's Chris Steakhouse."
"Slacker Radio is the perfect partner to significantly increase the quality of our offerings,"said AOL Radio head Lisa Namerow, in a slight diss to former partner CBS (which also owns of Last.fm). "By combining AOL Radio's reach with the success of Slacker in mobile, we are increasing the distribution of our brands and further identifying AOL Radio as a leader in delivering superior radio experiences."
AOL Radio will relaunch its website and iPhone app later this summer to incorporate Slacker, with Android and other apps to follow. All of them will include 250 "expert-programmed" radio stations, ESPN sports radio, ABC News radio, and Slacker's user-programmed stations.
Founded in 2003, Slacker changed its strategy multiple times over the years, bouncing back and forth between focus on free radio and a paid on-demand service. At one point, Slacker also aimed to enlist YouTubers and other online celebrities as curators.
The News/Talk/Sports category is exactly what it sounds like\u2014stations that cater to the news, talk, and sports crowds. Comedy, ABC News, American Public Media, and ESPN programming fall under this category. The most intriguing of these stations are the ESPN stations that let you tune in to live sports talk. Unfortunately, ESPN is the only Slacker Radio channel to serve up live programming; the rest is streams of prerecorded content. iHeartRadio ( at Amazon) , on the other hand, has over a thousand live terrestrial radio stations on offer. Slacker Radio's Men and women's lifestyle stations (where you'll hear grooming tips, financial advice, and more) round out the talk options. If you're looking for a streaming music app that specializes in live radio and lets you build custom stations, however, iHeartRadio may be more your speed.
The founders of Skype are betting that a musical era is ending - that chapter where people stored their music in digital files on a computer hard drive, an era that began in 2001 with Apple's iTunes. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2'); ); Instead, they see a time where digital music streams to phones, televisions and cars from the "celestial jukebox" of the Internet, allowing listeners to play virtually any song, any time, anywhere, through a variety of Internet-linked devices. "We're moving to music on demand in your car," said Malthe Sigurdsson, a product design executive with Rdio, a San Francisco-based Internet music streaming service launched in August by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. "Do you want to have move your little USB stick out there to the car, and then back to the computer, and back and forth to the clock radio and so forth to have access to your music? It cannot be the future." Rdio is one of several companies that say streaming digital music will soon replace those MP3 files on a your laptop or phone - and perhaps even that rack of aging CDs in your living room. Rdio, along with Berkeley, Calif.-based Mog, a similar subscription cloud music service that allows listeners to choose from millions of songs stored on the Internet, was among a host of tech and music companies at this year's South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, pushing cloud music services. The rise of smartphones that allow people to connect to the Internet from almost anywhere, the rapidly shrinking cost of data storage on the Internet, and the willingness of the major record labels to offer unlimited access to their catalogues for a $10 monthly fee are prompting predictions that on-demand cloud music could soon rival CDs and a la carte downloads for digital music ownership. Some proponents predict that switch within three years, despite needing to convince consumers to rent access to their music, rather than owning it. Amazon.com Inc. this week launched a cloud-based streaming music service tied to its MP3 store. Google and Apple are also working on streaming music services, while Spotify, a European cloud music service trying to gain access to the U.S. market, announced this month that it has reached a million paid subscribers. And San Diego-based Slacker Radio, an Internet radio service like Pandora that streams "stations" of similar-genre songs, plans to launch an on-demand service in April. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle []).push(); Google is believed to be working on a cloud service, which will stream specific songs from the Internet that users can show they have already purchased through a service like iTunes, according to industry sources who have been briefed on the company's plans. Apple, meanwhile, bought music-streaming service Lala in 2009 and shut it down last year, triggering speculation that Apple would incorporate streaming music features to iTunes before the end of 2010. Google and Apple declined to comment. Cloud music proponents like Steve Savoca of New York-based Domino Recording Co. believe listeners will trade ownership for access to any song, any time. "It's a behavior thing, and it takes a long time to get there," said Savoca , whose company has invested in the technology to easily transfer its record catalogue to cloud services. For companies like Mog and Rdio, "it's early days, but they've got great products," he said, and "I don't think retailers will have the stomach to carry CDs much longer." Mog and Rdio offer subscribers unlimited access for a set monthly fee - $9.99 for both companies. For that amount, subscribers can select any song from a catalog of 8 to 10 million tunes, and listen through any device connected to the Internet, including smartphones and Internet-linked TVs and Blu-ray players. For times they lack an Internet connection, subscribers can store songs to a phone or laptop, music they can use as long as they subscribe. "You can play, 'I Will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston 10,000 times in a row if you choose, or play nothing but one album during the entire day, just Jimi Hendrix or U2," Sigurdsson said. "The era of music on the hard drive is going to be seen as this weird period, as something that was an anomaly," Mog CEO David Hyman said at the South By Southwest unveiling of a 2011 Mini Cooper with Mog integrated into the car's dashboard - the first on-demand Internet music service integrated into an automobile. Obstacles remain, however, to transform a model from where people own their music, whether on a CD or an MP3 file, to a model where people essentially rent access on the Internet. Older cloud services like Rhapsody, which has over 750,000 subscribers, have yet to find mass market acceptance. Smaller independent record labels may lack the technical ability to transfer their catalogs to the cloud, meaning that it may be harder for cloud services to satisfy obscure or eclectic musical tastes. And as one skeptic at a South By Southwest panel on cloud music services asked: How many couples will be willing to pay $240 a year for music they don't even own? Sigurdsson acknowledged Rdio's own research shows people remain skeptical. "There is still a whole ton of work to convince people that they want to select what they want to listen to - that they don't want to just turn on the radio and listen to the country channel," he said. And "it is emotional, of course it is" to give up ownership of CDs and MP3s, he said, but "you give up ownership of something for the benefit of access to much more." Hyman, the former CEO of Gracenote, a company that allows services like iTunes to incorporate data such as album art when people rip tracks from CDs to their computers, says the music industry will move away from a need for devices like the iPod and iPhone with huge amounts of storage capacity. Mog, Rdio and Rhapsody are competing to integrate their services into other car makes. BMW's Mini Cooper features Mog on a display inside the car's speedometer, controlled by a joy stick to the right of the driver. The competition to place music services in cars is crucial, Hyman said, because people listen to so much of their music while they drive. The Mini Cooper system, which requires a smartphone running a Mog app, goes on sale this spring. "Our goal for Mog is to be ubiquitous," Hyman said, "like air." 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