Internet radio provider Slacker is bulldozing the skinny line dividing itself from subscription-based music services today, with the launch of Premium Radio. The recent pricing tier joins the present gratis Basic Radio and ad-free Radio Plus plans, adding an all-you-can-eat music model comparable to services like Rhapsody and Rdio . Subscribers who shell out $9.99 a month receive the entire features of the $3.99 Radio Plus users, plus unlimited access to 8 million songs, allowing them to take heed to what they need, when the want, and customarily play god with the site’s existing radio services. Premium Radio also provides you with on- and offline access to music on a number 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 elemental Radio plan. Do not feel too bad for ‘em, though — at the very 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 facility, functionality and music discovery that Slacker Radio provides and combines it with the flexibleness of integrated on-demand access for a brand new tier of service that gives the greatest of all worlds. Slacker Premium is offered today on the internet, and as new applications for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android and BlackBerry smartphones. The brand new 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 completely-loaded music subscription service, Slacker is the best offering to offer the complete suite of options.
Slacker Premium Radio enables listeners to go looking, play and replay specific songs and whole albums from the Slacker library, which features over 8 million songs, in addition to quick access to top songs and artists from all the 150+ expert-programmed Slacker genre stations. Listeners even have the facility to create specific playlists both on mobile and on the internet, or even experience off-line playback throughout the ability to cache stations, playlists and full albums.
a brand new Slacker station creator provides all listeners the facility to quickly and simply create multi-artist stations, with custom fine-tuning features for the very best radio experience. All Slacker listeners even have the power to create a radio experience starting from stations in line with a single artist to stations created by entering hundreds of hand-picked artists. As well as, Slacker Premium listeners can create and revel in stations with the intention to only play songs from a single chosen artist or band.
As well as the power to look the overall Slacker catalog, the hot Slacker Premium Radio service gives listeners more how you can browse stations than ever before, allowing an excellent deeper music discovery experience. Listeners can now browse expert hand- programmed genre stations to go looking 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 besides displaying on which Slacker stations each artist is programmed, for the final word artist access.
“Up until this point there was an array of ‘Internet radio’ and ‘on-demand’
services with much debate about that’s 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 suitable of both. We
believe the aggregate of an international 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 a totally customizable and private online radio experience that
includes probably 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 consisting of personalized ESPN Sports content integration coming soon. With a music catalog this is 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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