Web site to offer the ‘personal radio’
Posted by Emil Protalinski on 14 March 2007 - 22:09 · 8 comments & 3092 views
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#1 Posted by Osprey on 14 Mar 2007 - 23:50
- That's one quick and easy to NOT get my money: call it "The Slacker." No matter how great the device, there's no way that I'm buying something with a name like that.
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#2 Posted by Jugalator on 14 Mar 2007 - 23:52
- Sounds like one of those "why didn't someone do this before" ideas.
He has a point that these services has been limited to the PC in the past, for no good reason.
Actually, I'm surprised Apple didn't do something like this first, as one of the prime features of a new iPod generation. Imagine the oooh's and aaah's after Steve going on about "Our iPods have long missed radio support, you know... Today, we ask ourselves... Why would we need that... When you make the station. Let your taste decide, not the minds somewhere else." Or maybe this on the Zune... Queue jumping, steaming Steve Ballmer going on about "Welcome to the personal!! Aiieeeh!"
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#3 Posted by Colin-uk on 15 Mar 2007 - 00:48
- I had that idea a while ago, i just never really 'developed' on it. oh well
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#4 Posted by +vlsi0n on 15 Mar 2007 - 08:08
- I am really interested in buying this; can't wait till it comes .
Users who log on to Slacker can begin listening to music from more than 10,000 stations that are built around specific artists and pre-programmed genres. Users also can create their own stations by indicating what types of songs they want and letting the Slacker "DJ", a mostly automated system based on complicated algorithms, fill out the station program with more content. Users can remove or favourite songs played on the station. Customization adjustments to stations include choosing "more popular" versus "more eclectic," or newer versus older music. Users will also be able to e-mail their friends with their favorite stations. After the Slacker players become available, users will be able to have their personal radio stations delivered to the portable devices. The gadgets will not have to be connected to a wireless network for playback: they'll refresh the music data whenever the devices detect a Wi-Fi or satellite connection.
The basic Slacker radio service is ad-supported and free. A premium level of service that is set to launch in the second quarter will cost $7.50 per month, eliminate advertising and give users more flexibility and features. "The only problem is that until now, personalized radio has been stuck on the PC. Slacker solves that problem," said Slacker co-founder and Chief Executive Dennis Mudd, who was previously the co-founder and former chairman and chief executive of Musicmatch Incorporated, bought out by Yahoo in 2004 for $160 million. Slacker currently employs about 50 people, including Jonathan Sasse, Slacker's vice president of marketing, the former CEO of portable player company iRiver America and Slacker's president, Jim Cady, the former chief executive at Rio. The company’s vice president of sales is Steve Cotter, who previously held the same title at both Rio and Altec Lansing Technologies Incorporated.