|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Slacker gets motivated
Dean Mortlock
0 comments 19 March 2007
New online music service promises thousands of streaming radio stations and a low-priced media player with WiFi access and a 4-inch colour screen. We’re excited.
At the heart of Slacker is a streaming music service (similar to the excellent Pandora or Last.fm), which allows you to listen to a seemingly infinite library of music. Slacker differs from the others though, as it’s actually a massive collection of pre-programmed radio stations, with over 10,000 to choose from on any topic you care to mention.
Slacker is currently PC-only, but the interesting part comes with the arrival of the Slacker portable player in the summer. This will enable you to access the whole Slacker library anywhere and without giving to be connected to a computer – whenever the device is near a WiFi network or satellite connection, it will simply reload itself with music.
The Slacker player (which should cost around £150 for a 2GB model) will also be able to be used as standard music player, and with a 4-inch screen and a memory capacity of up to 120GB, should be perfect for video, too.
But before you get too concerned that this could spell the beginning of the end for iPods, the founder of Slacker, Dennis Mudd, hopes to integrate the radio service on other players: "We'd like to be able to port our Slacker Radio into as many other MP3 players as possible,” he said. “We see Slacker Radio offered in cell phones, PDAs and car audio receivers, too."
To find out more about Slacker, and to sign up for the radio service, go here.
Story via Times Online. For the original story, go here.
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|