Slacker 2 GB Portable Radio with 15 Stations (Black)

Slacker 2 GB Portable Radio with 15 Stations (Black) Features

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With the Slacker Portable, the world's first-ever personal radio player, you can now take your favorite music with you, and discover new music along the way.

Personalized Radio With the Slacker Portable, the world's first-ever personal radio player, you can now take your favorite music with you. Choose from more than 100 expertly programmed radio stations, or custom-build your own using the vast Slacker artist network. The more you listen, the better Slacker gets at automatically delivering the music you want to hear.

Effortless
Create your own unique radio experience with Slacker Personal Radio. You know what you like--Slacker knows how to deliver it. Slacker's Internet radio offering is built on the expertise of DJs from all over the country, and just by listening, you make Slacker even smarter at delivering more music that you love.

Music Discovery
Perfect your listening experience using Slacker's exclusive personalization tools. With the buttons, tell Slacker Radio which songs are your favorites--and which ones you never want to hear again. Fine-tune any station--get more hits, or request older artists over new, for instance. Album reviews and artist bios come with every song and are delivered right to your Slacker Portable. View them on the 4-inch color LCD.

Advanced Radio Clocks
Slacker DJs operate using a proven method of picking and mixing songs to deliver excellent musical variety that complements your tastes. This patent-pending DJ technology is embedded in the Slacker Portable to create the very best radio stations. The more you listen, the better it performs to deliver new music you'll love.

Choose from more than 100 expertly programmed radio stations, or custom-build your own.

Get new music instantly from the vast Slacker music library by connecting at hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi spots across the country.

Slacker Basic Radio: Free Take the world's first-ever personal radio player with you for nonstop, customized music wherever you go. On the Slacker Portable, store thousands of songs for repeated listening, or connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot to get new music instantly. With hours of battery life, the Slacker Portable is built to go where you go.

To offer your favorite music for free, the Slacker Basic Radio service might play one to two ads an hour. That's significantly fewer ads than traditional radio, so you can relax and easily enjoy your favorite music.

Plus, it's all completely legal. Slacker has unique licensing agreements with thousands of record labels to give you free access to a variety of music. By working directly with the record labels, Slacker gets the latest content to ensure your radio stations always stay current.

Upgrade to Slacker Premium Radio If you want even more out of the service, pay just $7.50 per month for Slacker Premium, which puts you in control. What's the difference between Slacker Basic and Slacker Premium? First, Premium subscribers can avoid the ads that played in the Basic service. So, it's an ad-free listening experience.

Next, Premium subscribers have access to Slacker Request Song, which lets you add your favorite artists' songs to your station. Then, use Slacker's fine-tuning controls to indicate how often those requested songs should play.

Third, Premium subscribers have no limits on the number of songs they skip, letting listeners create the exact music experience they want. (Basic listeners are limited to six skips per hour, per station.)

And fourth, as a Premium subscriber, you can save your favorite songs with the touch of a button. Saved songs are added to your library so that you can listen to them any time. You also can save your favorites to your PC using the Slacker Software Player. It's the ultimate personal radio experience.

Slacker Premium Radio at a glance:
Just $7.50 per month No advertisements Request songs Unlimited skipping of songs Save favorites

Slacker Radio: It's Everywhere With the Slacker Portable, get free and easy access to millions of songs from thousands of artists wherever you are. All of the music you love is automatically delivered to your Slacker Portable for free at any Wi-Fi hotspot or through your PC via USB.

Pocket DJ
The same personalized listening experience you love on Slacker.com is available wherever you go on the Slacker Portable. Slacker DJs hand pick songs for your player, and you can use the buttons on the Slacker Portable to further customize your stations. The more you listen, the better the music gets.

The Slacker Portable gives you uninterrupted access to your music wherever you are. Thousands of songs are stored on the Slacker Portable to fill up all of your personalized radio stations. That means you can listen to your stations, even if you are nowhere near a Wi-Fi connection.

Refresh On the Go
The Slacker Portable automatically can add new music at hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. Each time you connect, songs that were hand-picked by Slacker DJs are added to your device. Plus, you can add new stations to your Slacker Portable from any PC or Mac with an Internet connection.

Built in MP3 Player Already have your own personal music library? The Slacker Portable features a built-in MP3 player. You can store up to 500 MB of MP3s on the 2 GB/15-station Slacker Portable, 1.5 GB of MP3s on the 4 GB/25-station Slacker Portable, or 4 GB of MP3s on the 8 GB/40-station Slacker Portable. Then, listen whenever and wherever you want.

On-the-Go Playlists
Create personalized playlists with your MP3s using the intuitive controls on the Slacker Portable. Enjoy the favorites you own in any order you want. As a Slacker Premium Radio subscriber, you can mix your MP3s with saved radio tracks to fashion playlists absolutely unique to you.

Software Player
Play your own personal collection of MP3s on the your portable with Slacker Software Player. Simply plug your portable into your PC to transfer songs and refresh your radio stations. Also, such enhanced features as high-resolution, full-screen album art and a variety of visualizations track to the music on the portable's 4-inch color LCD.

What's in the Box
Slacker 2 GB Portable Radio with 15 Stations (Black), USB cable, power supply, earphones

What Customers Say About Slacker 2 GB Portable Radio with 15 Stations (Black):

I already own a Slacker radio, and I bought this one as a gift for my son-in-law for Christmas. The item was sent on time and it was exactly what I had ordered. No problems whatsoever. I would purchase from this company again.

Honestly the G1 should be recalled and everyone given a credit voucher to purchase a G2 because of all the known problems. Prompt response and they walk you through repair procedures.

I have been using the G1 portable for a year and suffered through all the firmware issues and technical bugs. When it works - it is GREAT.

I absolutely love the Slacker radio concept and streaming music. Slacker does have a fix: [.].I have chatted with support several times and they are great.

When it fails to start up, or sync I want to scream. There is a KNOWN problem with the G1 starting up and hundreds of blogs on the subject.

It's very sad that the firmware and technical problems are so common that they have to publish full repair procedures. Slacker is a great concept and I hope to see them succeed.

Mine works exactly as advertised. Update works OK, wifi connection to open network and using WPA at home works like a champ. I don't use for my own mp3s, just for Slacker stations. Custom stations are great, and I have added and deleted stations many times. Well worth the price I paid. I also use the Slacker web client, but the portable device is nice in the car and with the stereo.

Love Slacker radio, but this device is cursed, it worked for 8 weeks then stopped, sometimes it turns on, sometimes it won't. Sometimes it syncs, sometimes it won't.Very frustrating.I do not recommend this product.

You will then have to reload your stations, but it should go much more smoothly. The firmware it ships with is very buggy.

Also, this thing shines when coupled with an iRiver FM transmitter in the car.Cons: Oddly designed buttons, finicky scroll wheel, odd touch bar controls. The design could have been better, but probably created to leave the screen uncluttered.

Pros: endless selection of free music, lots of station choices, make your own station, beautiful screen, older model G1 is very affordable. This is CRITICAL.

Hints: If you purchase the G1 model over the newer G2 model, only load 1 station the first time. This allows for a quick refresh and lets the portable radio update the firmware.

After the installation of new firmware and the loading of one station, do a factory reset. I was ready to throw this thing up against the wall before I figured all this out and just want to save someone else the grief.