Slacker has put out an update for its popular Slacker Radio iPhone app complete with a clever feature that actually lets you cache music stations so that you can listen to them anywhere—connected to a network or not.
The app’s free, but you do need a Slacker Radio Plus subscription which will run you at least $4 per month. For that price, you’ll get these features:
– Cache stations to iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch**
– Enjoy Slacker radio stations even without a wireless network
– Greatly improved battery life
– Unlimited song skipping
– Ad-free listening
– Complete song lyrics
– Unlimited song requests for creating stations
– Music library featuring millions of songs
– No listening limits
– High-quality stereo playback
– Over 120 professionally programmed genre stations
– Create custom stations based on artists or songs
– Fine tune stations on-the-fly to play more of the music you like
– View artist biographies and photos
– View album art and reviews
– “Peek Ahead” artist and album preview
– Pause and skip songs
– Rate songs as favorites
– Ban the songs and artists you don’t like
The Slacker Radio 2.0 update should be in the iTunes App Store now and a free 14-day trial of the Radio Plus subscription service is available through the Slacker website. [iTunes]
