Slacker Radio App Comes to Android Market

Slacker finally brings its excellent streaming music app to the Android Market, adding optimized support for current Android hotshots the Droid and Droid Eris. It's available now, in either a free "lite" or a paid premium version. [Slacker]

No More Hardware Players from Slacker

Slacker's G2 player was pretty cool, but hardware from an online music service always seemed odd—especially when Slacker and Pandora apps are available for BlackBerries and the iPhone. So I'm not surprised that they're exiting the hardware biz. More »

New Slacker iPhone App Works Harder to Smack Pandora

The new version of Slacker for iPhone's been buffed and polished so it glistens with a better UI, "4x the song library as our leading competitor" (Pandora) and faster transitions. Look for it tomorrow. [Slacker]

Slacker Internet Radio Now Available On BlackBerry Storm

The BlackBerry Storm is no longer left out of the free streaming web radio crowd—a Storm-tuned Slacker app can now be yours. More »

Slacker Radio Now Available for the iPhone

We knew it was coming, but now the Slacker internet radio app is officially available on the iPhone. More »

Slacker Radio Now Available for BlackBerry, Coming to iPhone Very Soon

Just after Slacker for BlackBerry quietly slid out of the gates yesterday, MobileCrunch caught up with a company rep at the ShowStoppers CES event and found out that the iPhone version isn't far behind. More »

Slacker Internet Radio Comes to BlackBerry for Lazy-Ass Music Lovers

Slacker, the Pandora-esque internet radio service, will release a free app for BlackBerry phones next month. It's remarkably similar to their own hardware—users choose pre-programmed stations or build their own, and songs are downloaded directly to the phone's memory card, so they don't require Wi-Fi or a cell connection to play. Telling Slacker what songs you like and don't like tailors the stations to your tastes, almost like getting a Genius Playlist of songs you don't have to pay for or otherwise acquire. Up to 8GB of free music that changes all the time? Almost sounds too good to be true. [Slacker]

CNet Gives Logitech Squeezebox Duet the Ol' Editor's Choice Stamp

Logitech has been dying to get into wireless whole-house audio like Sonos and not a whole lot of others. Now that CNet has favorably reviewed the $400 Squeezebox Duet we told you about at CES, it may well have a shot. In living video, our buddy John Falcone explains the Wi-Fi-powered system, and notes that, aside from DRM protected content, the Squeezebox Duet gets at "any music, anywhere" including stuff from Rhapsody, Slacker, and Pandora, plus internet radio and podcasts. More »

Slacker Player Gets Glowing Review

Ever since we heard about the Slacker Portable we were a little excited, but the object of our portable streaming radio affection has just come up for its first review seating. According to the fine fellows at Wired, it is slacking its way into their hearts as we write this very article. More »

Slacker Streaming Net Radio Player Limited Trial Units In the Wild

We just talked to the guys at Slacker who told us that they've offered trial test units to people who've pre-ordered. Here's our hands-on video from November in case you wanted to see what the thing was all about. [Slacker]

Slacker's portable Wi-Fi radio has been delayed until January 31st, 2008. Pre-orders will be delivered on that date, but customers who can't wait can cancel their orders. [Slacker]

Slacker Announces Aptly Named "Portable" Music Device

Last month we learned that online music service Slacker would debut its own player sometime before the holidays. Today the company made it official with the announcement of their "Portable" portable music player. The device features a 4-inch screen, 15, 20 and 40 station capacities, the ability to play your existing MP3s and WMAs, 10 hours of battery time, and it will work with Slacker Basic Radio and Premium Radio services. The Portable is now available for pre-order at $199.99 (15 stations, 2GB), $249.99 (25 stations, 4GB ) and $299.99 (40 stations, 8GB) . Expect the device to ship on, or before December 13th, 2007. [Slacker via Gearlog]

Slacker Music Device Coming October~December

A reader just sent us in this tip about the music service/player Slacker, which coughs up music over Wi-Fi, Satellite, and the interwebberpipes. We saw this back in March, but until now there wasn't a definitive release date. However, slacker support says: "The portable player is scheduled to be released within the next month or two. At this time it is the final steps of production." Things are looking good for slackers. [Thanks Tipster!]

Slacker Desktop App Gives You More Control Over Your Tunes

Slacker fans are getting a little surprise this morning. The online radio station has just released a desktop app that lets you manage your entire music library while letting you make a few tweaks to the online version. Here's what's included. More »

Slacker Player Up Close and Personal

The lucky folks at CNET got to manhandle the forthcoming Slacker player while at the SXSW music fest. The player, which will have built-in Wi-Fi and the ability to sync with your personalized Slacker service, looks pretty fat and big for a flash player. CNET also reports that the battery on the final unit will most likely not be removable. The good news is that the player will have an SD card slot for bumping up storage capacity and the interface is pretty straightforward. The coolest part, however, is that the Slacker folks are talking with other DAP manufacturers so there there may be a chance that you'll be able to listen to your Slacker tunes on non-Slacker portables. You hearing that, iPod? – Louis Ramirez More »

Slacker Satellite/MP3 Players: Revolutionary or Just Complicated?

We wrote about Slacker's new service and hardware this morning, and so did Wired, but I'm going to take an alternative interpretation of the service that is less glowing...here's what I see besides the undeniably sexy piece of hardware above. I bet Jason would want to stick that in his pants. Anyhow: More »

Slacker Music Delivers Tunes Online, Over Satellite, and via Wi-Fi

Making its debut at Texas' SXSW music fest is Slacker, a new hybrid music service that delivers music online, via satellite, or from any wireless hotspot. It's a pretty big package so we'll break it down to its simplest forms. So first let's check out the service. It's already up and running and free to anyone after a quick sign up. The service makes money through video ads, so naturally there's also a premium plan sans ads that goes for $7.50/month. Users in both camps can tune into any Slacker station (their DJs cover all the genres just like XM and Sirius) and you can vote to "heart" or "ban" songs from the station's playlist by simply pressing the appropriate icon. As an extra perk, you can also republish your music channels to your blog/website. Next comes the device, a sexy little player with enough features to put many of today's DAPs to shame.... More »