Slacker Radio Goes Premium, Debuts Players

By Geoff Duncan
November 15, 2007

Self-styled "personal radio" operator Slacker has introduced a new ad-free premium services, and a line of Slacker portable players.

Self-styled "personal radio" operator Slacker Slacker portable players.

"Slacker Premium Radio is for those who want even more control over their radio listening experience," said Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd, in a statement. "We're particularly excited by the save song feature in Premium Radio, which lets people build a library of their favorite music without having to work at it."

Slacker's portable players work with either the Basic or Premium Slacker services, enabling users to listen to their personal stations either online or offline. The player sport a 4-inch 480 by 272-pixel color screen that displays artist profiles, reviews, and cover art, offer up to 10 hours of battery life, automatically refresh their content via USB or WiFi. The players are mostly Windows-only (they only support WiFi on the Mac, and ...

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