Slacker Portable Player. Like Pandora To Go.
I love the personalized radio stations you can create on Pandora and Last.FM. They seem to know the music I like even better than I do. The trouble is I can’t take them with me. Leave the computer and I’m back to the random shuffle play on my Zune. The new
Slacker Portable player changes all that.
The system starts with the Slacker Radio service and 2 million songs organized into 100 pro stations, 10,000 artist stations and an unlimited number stations that you create. Like Pandora, your stations evolve over time by rating your favorite songs and banning artists or songs you don’t like. You can even fine tune your stations to play older or newer music, more hits or more eclectic music, or to help you discover more artists.
With the addition of the new Slacker Portable you automatically connect to Slacker over Wi-Fi when in wireless range or USB and instead of streaming, the player fills itself up with your selected music. This means you don’t need a continuous connection to play Slacker Radio. There are ads inserted into the streams but you can eliminate them by paying a monthly fee.
Slacker Portable Players range from $199 to $299 depending on the capacity. Scroll down for a video tour of the new player.
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Jesus man, at least write your own lede…
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/02/exclusive-revie.html
(Apologies if this is just a coincidence.)
Eliot, I love your blog but I really did write this one on my own…How else would one describe Slacker?
Readers: check out Eliot’s exclusive review at the link above. I haven’t been able to get my hands on one yet.
Ah, okay. It wasn’t so much the Pandora comparison that made me suspicious as this passage: “They seem to know the music I like even better than I do. The trouble is I can’t take them with me. Leave the computer and I’m back to the random shuffle play on my Zune. The new Slacker Portable player changes all that.”
Compare that to: “These customized channels know us better than we know ourselves. The problem? There’s no way to carry them around on an iPod. Enter the Slacker Portable…”
But as you suggest, it could all be a coincidence. Anyway, thanks for the kind words about my blog.