Slacker Radio

by Antonio Wells Apr 5, 2010 8:00 AM – 6 Comments

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Listen to free personalized radio on your mobile phone. With millions of songs from 1000s of artists, Slacker Radio is the best way to discover new artists and hear your favorites. Customize over 120 stations from every genre or create your own stations – new for 2.0, a free trial of station caching for off-line playback!

Price: 7 Day Free Trial, $4.99/Month

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Stream high quality music
Listen to predefined stations create your own
Station Caching for Android 2+ phones (Pro)
Unlimited song skip (Pro)
No Ads (Pro)
Android widget for the home screen
Album art, reviews and bios
Send station to friend by email, SMS text, or Twitter

Features:

Slacker Radio Android App streams high quality music to your Android phone with predefined stations you can listen to or create your own. An awesome Pro feature is Station Cache; download an entire station to SD card in the background and listen later without any Internet or data connection (for Android 2+ phones). Like Last.fm Personal Radio and Pandora Radio similar artists or genres stream on a station; also there are unlimited skips of songs (up to 6 with free version) and no commercials with the Plus version. Most songs have album art, reviews and bios, add stations to Favorites, and send stations to a friends.

Video App Review: Slacker Radio

Watch on Mobile

: Slacker Radio Station Playing

: Slacker Radio Stations

: Slacker Radio Spotlight

: Slacker Radio Song Options

: Slacker Radio Artist Bio

: Slacker Radio Search

: Slacker Radio Album Art in Android Window Shade

: Slacker Radio Settings Menu

Usefulness & Frequently Used:

Slacker Radio provides an awesome music experience on Android. Music lovers will definitely appreciate an app that gives access to their favorite artist while on the go.

Ease of Use:

The app is straight forward and works like most media player apps for Android. Requires a Slacker Radio account before you can start streaming music. Be sure to enter to win a free Slacker Radio account we’re giving away.

Interface:

The user interface is slick; optimal mobile streaming music player.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

(4.4 out of 5)

Should you Download Slacker Radio? Yes! Stream Your Favorite Music on the Go!

Developer: Slacker Inc.

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Categorised in: Multimedia, Music

6 Comments

By cyco on April 5, 2010 at 8:07 am:

Love the app. Use it daily.

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By mikimous on April 5, 2010 at 10:40 am:

The app is great. Station caching makes it more versatile than competing apps.

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By Trinition on April 5, 2010 at 10:48 am:

But how is it compared to last.fm and Pandora (the other two I hear a lot about)/

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By mendy on April 5, 2010 at 11:13 am:

what are the advantages (if any) over pandora?

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By slayerboy on April 5, 2010 at 7:46 pm:

The range of artists is much better on Slacker vs Pandora. The tracks go deeper into some albums too from what I’ve seen. I like Slacker MUCH better than Pandora. Pandora and Last.FM are great for finding similar artists to a particular artist or sub-genre of music your looking for, but overall, I think Slacker is better for general music listening.

Also, I don’t think the cache is 2.0+ only, I have the Samsung Moment (which is 1.5?) and have the option for the cache. Not sure if it’s the cache or the quality of service that Slacker has, but I can travel all over the place with Slacker in my truck and almost never miss a beat. Can’t say the same for Pandora or Last.FM apps on Android while traveling with spotty signals.

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By justice(jsticenoh2o) on November 3, 2010 at 8:36 pm:

I have downloaded the app for my android x. And when I try to use it I keep getting an error message. what’s wrong.

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