Internet radio provider Slacker is bulldozing the skinny line dividing itself from subscription-based music services today, with the launch of Radio Plus. The brand new pricing tier joins the present gratis Basic Radio and ad-free Premium Radio plans, adding an all-you-can-eat music model corresponding to services like Rhapsody and Rdio . Subscribers who shell out $9.99 a month receive all the features of the $4.99 Premium Radio users, plus unlimited access to 8 million songs, allowing them to take heed to what they would like, when the want, and customarily play god with the site’s existing radio services. Radio Plus also offers you on- and offline access to music on various mobile devices, including the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android, and BlackBerry handsets — let alone unlimited bragging rights to all your broke friends who’re still rocking the essential Radio plan. Do not feel too bad for ‘em, though — at the least they did not get suckered into slotRadio .
Slacker Radio Launches Slacker Premium with On-Demand Access to Slacker Music Library
SAN DIEGO – May, 17 2011 – Slacker, Inc. today launched Slacker Premium Radio,
a brand new tier of service that gives music lovers with on-demand access to the Slacker music library including individual songs, albums, top charts, station playlists, single- artist radio stations and more. Slacker Premium takes the ability, functionality and music discovery that Slacker Radio provides and combines it with the ability of integrated on-demand access for a brand new tier of service that gives the correct of all worlds. Slacker Premium is accessible today on the internet, and as new applications for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android and BlackBerry smartphones. The recent applications deliver features for all listeners, including free listeners, subscribers to Slacker Radio Plus and now subscribers to Slacker Premium Radio.With the launch of Slacker Premium Radio, Slacker becomes the primary music service to deliver three complementary tiers. From the entirely free Slacker Basic Radio service, to the ad-free and have-rich Slacker Radio Plus and now on-demand access with Slacker Premium Radio, Slacker meets the purposes of all music fans. Whether listeners prefer an exceptional free personal radio experience or the facility of a totally-loaded music subscription service, Slacker is the sole offering to produce the entire suite of options.
Slacker Premium Radio enables listeners to look, play and replay specific songs and full albums from the Slacker library, which features over 8 million songs, in addition to easy accessibility to top songs and artists from all the 150+ expert-programmed Slacker genre stations. Listeners even have the flexibility to create specific playlists both on mobile and on the internet, or even experience off-line playback during the ability to cache stations, playlists and whole albums.
a brand new Slacker station creator provides all listeners the power to quickly and simply create multi-artist stations, with custom fine-tuning features for the most effective radio experience. All Slacker listeners even have the facility to create a radio experience starting from stations in line with a single artist to stations created by entering hundreds of hand-picked artists. Additionally, Slacker Premium listeners can create and luxuriate in stations so as to only play songs from a single chosen artist or band.
As well as the flexibility to look the complete Slacker catalog, the recent Slacker Premium Radio service gives listeners more tips on how to browse stations than ever before, allowing a good deeper music discovery experience. Listeners can now browse expert hand- programmed genre stations to look and play top artists, view and play top songs and albums, allowing behind the curtain access to the “Top 50″ charts for each station. The Slacker Premium Radio interface also includes all-new artist pages, featuring the artist biography, all songs by the artist, discography and related artists as well as displaying on which Slacker stations each artist is programmed, for the last word artist access.
“Up until this point there was an array of ‘Internet radio’ and ‘on-demand’
services with much debate about that is better from a content, experience and
technology perspective,” said Jonathan Sasse, senior vp of marketing
at Slacker. “Slacker Premium Radio provides music lovers with the easiest of both. We
believe the mixture of a global class radio service providing music discovery up front with on-demand access to any song and full albums is the winning combo.”Slacker Radio offers an absolutely customizable and private online radio experience that
includes essentially the mostsome of the most varied and compelling range of content offered by any Internet radio service. The Slacker Radio experience includes over 150 expert-programmed music stations, ABC news, comedy, custom artist-hosted showcase stations and leading music festival stations along side personalized ESPN Sports content integration coming soon. With a music catalog that’s over ten times larger than the leading radio competitor, Slacker Radio gives listeners the last word music discovery resource.Slacker Premium Radio:
• Search, play and replay specific songs or entire albums
• Create specific playlists on mobile and at the web
• Off-line playback of stations, playlists and albums at the iPad, iPhone and iPod
touch, Android and BlackBerry smartphones
• Replay specific songs on programmed and custom stations
• Browse and play “Favorite” songs, now collected in a single location
• Unlimited song skipping
• Ad-free listening
• Complete song lyrics†
• Browse Top Charts on all Slacker genre stations
• “Peek Ahead” artist, album and song preview
• Ability to skip forward and backward
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