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Posted November 14th, 2007 by acohill

Internet radio dropped off the radar years ago because of royalty issues. Start up Internet radio stations streaming music were not always paying royalties, and the record companies responded by imposing absurdly expensive royalties that put most Internet radio stations out of business.

But the grudging acceptance of digital music by the record companies has led to more reasonable royalty rates, and a radio start-up called Slacker is trying to make a go of it by introducing yet another portable music player that is half iPod and half radio. The Slacker Portable, when connected to your computer, downloads an ever changing selection of tunes, based on your own preferences. You can listen to them anytime, in the same way you would listen to your own music on an iPod or other MP3 player.

Slacker's niche is that you are not stuck with your own, unchanging playlists; Slacker updates and changes the playlists automatically when you plug your Slacker Portable in to your computer.

It is a neat idea, and is likely to be popular if they can break the link between the service and the requirement for yet another specialized device. There are only so many gadgets people want to carry around.

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Submitted by Reader on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 20:23.

Slacker is great. The portable players have just launched, and already the service is gaining popularity. Check out my Slacker radio news and discussion site for more information about this awesome new music service.

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Submitted by cine on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 00:42.

I need hear about Radio recovery, I just know somthinig like avs iradio recorder, it can manage the list of Internet radio stations, add, move and delete stations. I like this.

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Submitted by Reader on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 23:35.

I don’t expect this to be an iPod killer, or even a Zune killer. But i really think the Slacker portable is really just touching upon a different segment of the market. I have been using the slacker web player since it’s release in March and have to say if the hardware is upto par with the software then they will have a great combo. Also noted that if they can get the third party support then i think they will have a good following. Slacker also stated that it would not be affected by the recent internet radio royalty price hikes (for now). A few more weeks, and we’ll let the reviews come rolling in. Also check out http://www.slackersocial.com Seems to be a good start to a social backing. I’ll try to post an unboxing and complete review as soon as it arrives.