Slacker Portable

By Nick Mokey
February 7th, 2008

Complex as they are, traditional MP3 players really don’t amount to much more than ultra-condensed CD libraries. Whether they have flash drives or hard drives, LCD screens or OLED screens, use buttons or scroll wheels, they all function as digital trunks for holding music. Drop your songs in, play them, and change them up when you get sick of them.For those who already have substantial collections of unprotected digital music, this model makes a lot of sense. But with the growing popularity of legal digital music alternatives in which ownership of music isn’t exactly black and white, the landscape for MP3 players is getting a little more complex.

Slacker, a provider of both free and paid Internet radio, recently debuted the Slacker Portable, which twists ordinary music compression technology into a device that works quite differently, at least from a user’s point of view. While it’s still an MP3 player in a ...

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