Slacker 2 GB Portable Radio with 15 Stations (Black)

Slacker 2 GB Portable Radio with 15 Stations (Black) Features

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With the Slacker Portable, the world's first-ever personal radio player, you can now take your favorite music with you, and discover new music along the way.

Personalized Radio With the Slacker Portable, the world's first-ever personal radio player, you can now take your favorite music with you. Choose from more than 100 expertly programmed radio stations, or custom-build your own using the vast Slacker artist network. The more you listen, the better Slacker gets at automatically delivering the music you want to hear.

Effortless
Create your own unique radio experience with Slacker Personal Radio. You know what you like--Slacker knows how to deliver it. Slacker's Internet radio offering is built on the expertise of DJs from all over the country, and just by listening, you make Slacker even smarter at delivering more music that you love.

Music Discovery
Perfect your listening experience using Slacker's exclusive personalization tools. With the buttons, tell Slacker Radio which songs are your favorites--and which ones you never want to hear again. Fine-tune any station--get more hits, or request older artists over new, for instance. Album reviews and artist bios come with every song and are delivered right to your Slacker Portable. View them on the 4-inch color LCD.

Advanced Radio Clocks
Slacker DJs operate using a proven method of picking and mixing songs to deliver excellent musical variety that complements your tastes. This patent-pending DJ technology is embedded in the Slacker Portable to create the very best radio stations. The more you listen, the better it performs to deliver new music you'll love.

Choose from more than 100 expertly programmed radio stations, or custom-build your own.

Get new music instantly from the vast Slacker music library by connecting at hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi spots across the country.

Slacker Basic Radio: Free Take the world's first-ever personal radio player with you for nonstop, customized music wherever you go. On the Slacker Portable, store thousands of songs for repeated listening, or connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot to get new music instantly. With hours of battery life, the Slacker Portable is built to go where you go.

To offer your favorite music for free, the Slacker Basic Radio service might play one to two ads an hour. That's significantly fewer ads than traditional radio, so you can relax and easily enjoy your favorite music.

Plus, it's all completely legal. Slacker has unique licensing agreements with thousands of record labels to give you free access to a variety of music. By working directly with the record labels, Slacker gets the latest content to ensure your radio stations always stay current.

Upgrade to Slacker Premium Radio If you want even more out of the service, pay just $7.50 per month for Slacker Premium, which puts you in control. What's the difference between Slacker Basic and Slacker Premium? First, Premium subscribers can avoid the ads that played in the Basic service. So, it's an ad-free listening experience.

Next, Premium subscribers have access to Slacker Request Song, which lets you add your favorite artists' songs to your station. Then, use Slacker's fine-tuning controls to indicate how often those requested songs should play.

Third, Premium subscribers have no limits on the number of songs they skip, letting listeners create the exact music experience they want. (Basic listeners are limited to six skips per hour, per station.)

And fourth, as a Premium subscriber, you can save your favorite songs with the touch of a button. Saved songs are added to your library so that you can listen to them any time. You also can save your favorites to your PC using the Slacker Software Player. It's the ultimate personal radio experience.

Slacker Premium Radio at a glance:
Just $7.50 per month No advertisements Request songs Unlimited skipping of songs Save favorites

Slacker Radio: It's Everywhere With the Slacker Portable, get free and easy access to millions of songs from thousands of artists wherever you are. All of the music you love is automatically delivered to your Slacker Portable for free at any Wi-Fi hotspot or through your PC via USB.

Pocket DJ
The same personalized listening experience you love on Slacker.com is available wherever you go on the Slacker Portable. Slacker DJs hand pick songs for your player, and you can use the buttons on the Slacker Portable to further customize your stations. The more you listen, the better the music gets.

The Slacker Portable gives you uninterrupted access to your music wherever you are. Thousands of songs are stored on the Slacker Portable to fill up all of your personalized radio stations. That means you can listen to your stations, even if you are nowhere near a Wi-Fi connection.

Refresh On the Go
The Slacker Portable automatically can add new music at hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. Each time you connect, songs that were hand-picked by Slacker DJs are added to your device. Plus, you can add new stations to your Slacker Portable from any PC or Mac with an Internet connection.

Built in MP3 Player Already have your own personal music library? The Slacker Portable features a built-in MP3 player. You can store up to 500 MB of MP3s on the 2 GB/15-station Slacker Portable, 1.5 GB of MP3s on the 4 GB/25-station Slacker Portable, or 4 GB of MP3s on the 8 GB/40-station Slacker Portable. Then, listen whenever and wherever you want.

On-the-Go Playlists
Create personalized playlists with your MP3s using the intuitive controls on the Slacker Portable. Enjoy the favorites you own in any order you want. As a Slacker Premium Radio subscriber, you can mix your MP3s with saved radio tracks to fashion playlists absolutely unique to you.

Software Player
Play your own personal collection of MP3s on the your portable with Slacker Software Player. Simply plug your portable into your PC to transfer songs and refresh your radio stations. Also, such enhanced features as high-resolution, full-screen album art and a variety of visualizations track to the music on the portable's 4-inch color LCD.

What's in the Box
Slacker 2 GB Portable Radio with 15 Stations (Black), USB cable, power supply, earphones

What Customers Say About Slacker 2 GB Portable Radio with 15 Stations (Black):

Not only that, but the expense is ridiculous. It plays only the music I like, and it's a different mix every day. If I don't like a song, I can skip it, and if I really like it, I can cause it to play more often with a push of a button. There are no monthly fees, and I can take it anywhere.

I can't think of a single thing that I don't like about my Slacker portable. The touch screen is easy to read and use, and I love seeing pics of my favorite artists and the album covers. Who really needs more than 25 radio stations. I love radio, but I hate the endless talking. Satellite radio has less talking, but I didn't like any of the stations - they are too specialized, and not any of the stations are ones I could listen to for any length of time. In addition to the excellent stations already available, I can customize a station for any mood I'm in. It refreshes the stations while it recharges the battery.

Even with the occasional ad, there is less talking than my husband gets with his overpriced satellite radio. I was on the fence for a long time. An MP3 player would give me the songs I like, if I can afford to buy them all, but setting up a play list is time consuming, and if I want to change my play list later, well, only the most expensive players will let you do that without starting over from scratch.Slacker radio is like a dream come true for me. Yes, you can buy the newer model for a LOT more money, but why.

I'd even buy this as a gift for someone. That is a neat feature too. Plus I also like the fact that you can create your own playlists to listen to. Plus it will show you the last songs that it played while on the station you're listening to. I enjoy my Slacker G2 player. I like the fact that yes, even though it has pre-programmed stations, you can go to their site and add your own and customize htem. One other thing that I found interesting is when a song is playing on one of the stations, you can read the artist infromation and look at the album art for the song that is currently playing.

If I put in a song or band it finds other stuff I may like. The selection doesn't all sound the same. So far the small number of skips hasn't bothered me at all. I have it set to download a few "stations". I use the website to customize my stations and then I have my Slacker use wifi for updates.

The signal is said to be strong my my computer's software and I have used my palm and an alternate computer up here without problem. It is fine. I have been using the basic account as it is free. It goes with me in my car so I can have great tunes. It just fits together. I love that it caches music. In the past I have found that custom internet stations play music that all sounds alike rather than playing other things I may like if I like a song or band. I can't sync from my bedroom even though I can use my computer up there.

I do not want the fees associated with a data plan. If you use wifi without a charger on it will kill the battery even faster. With Slacker I am not stuck without music when away from my computer. I was concerned about how it would work with my Mac. That didn't improve reception any. I now toss it on the steps when it needs to charge and refresh as it works without a hitch in that location.

Also, the battery does not last anywhere near the claimed time. I also put another router to rebroadcast the wifi up here. The stations are customizable from online. It is very easy and I like the variety of music it puts together. I am not living off of a cloud. The wifi is very weak.

I am thinking that 5 hours was the best so far. I love my Slacker. Slacker doesn't do this. After all, I can't skip songs on my car radio.Now for the few bad things that made this a 4/5 rather than a 5/5.

I connect to Wifi in my house to refresh the stations about every other day.This is a great product- for under $100, what a bargain.Take my advice and give it a shot. Either way, it soulds great (CD Quality)I listen to mine all day at work and charge at night. It made me think I ruined the player because I tried a few different things and I was not able to bring back my channels. I read many of these reviews and I think the problem lies with expectation rather than product performance. I believe I had a file that this player wasn't used to seeing (perhaps a corrupt one). They are up to date without a doubt.Great for outside too.

Simply hook it up to some MP3 speakers or your receiver at home. I think this product is GREAT. You even have an option to choose a comedy channel which is great to pass the time.I had one small issue with this player and it occurred when I tried to play MP3s that I myself loaded onto the Slacker. I did a 'Factory Reset' and in a few minutes I was back to where I left off. I can't speak for the customer service because I have had no reason to contact them.I work at a location where streaming audio is not allowed and this product has become my best friend. I waited until I owned this product for more than a month before writing the review- I was floored the first few days so I wanted to wait until I became an regular user of the product to allow for potential problems/bugs etc.Waiting to write my review did not change the way I feel about this product.

Once connected to your PC, you can visit the Slacker website to add/remove channels to customize your player. The reset worked like a charm.As far as the channels themselves, I couldn't be happier with the music libraries.

I would try to update the player to newest firmware first and try wireless if that works no need to do the pc connection. I have many other mp3 players that have and will continue to collect dust while I listen the my slacker every day.Oh also if you were wondering about the touch strip it is basically useless unless you mount it in your car then maybe I could see it being better than the side controls but if you have it in you pocket or laying around somewhere it is way to easy to hit something on accident and change the station or skip the song. You have to sync it then make the change on the website by editing the station. Before I bought the player I listened to slacker.com for a month or so and loved it. Album art doesn't work, no sorting options, also have a had a few files get corrupted and stop playing and I had to reload them.

Now that they have a G2 out the first gen player is cheap I got my 8gb for well under a $100 brand new. So I have had the player for about 2 months now with very few problems I got it to sync with my wireless netgear router no problem thats usually how I refresh the stations but I did get the PC connection working fine but you do have to fiddle with the routers IP settings so the player doesn't conflict. The only issues I have with the slacker radio stations is that you can not unfavorite a song on the player after you have made it a favorite. On the plus side the Slacker radio stations are so good I rarely use the mp3s and also you can put any file type in the mp3 storage area so you can use it for just general storage if you want.All told I think this a great gadget if you aren't sure check out their website and listen for free at slacker.com if you like that then you basically are getting the same thing but portable. I remember reading about this when it was first coming out and thought it was cool but didn't bite because it was a little pricey.

Personally I think it beats the snot out of pandora. My only other issue with the player is that it is not a great mp3 player.