![]() “Slacker is the most complete music service on earth, with 10 times the music of Pandora, expert-programmed stations Spotify can’t touch, and personalization that satellite services only dream of,” said Jim Cady, CEO, Slacker. –Slacker Premium ($9.99/mo) – The ultimate experience with on-demand access to Slacker’s library of million songs and albums. Customize and download your favorite stations for offline listening. –Slacker Plus ($3.99/mo) – Enjoy a commercial-free experience with unlimited song skips. Enter a song, artist or genre and let Slacker entertain you! –Slacker (FREE) – Stream millions of songs and hundreds of expert-programmed stations on any device. ![]() It’s the only complete digital music service. –Three tiers of service: Stream it for free. Prefer deeper cuts? Want more artist recommendations? Prefer the new stuff? You’re in complete control. –Endless personalization: New features include the ability to “Fine-Tune” stations. –The best content: 10 times the music of Pandora plus news, sports and talk from ABC and ESPN. Slacker, available on the web, iOS, Android, Windows and Blackberry, says the upgraded service has: And Slacker boasts a lot more songs – as well as news and talk radio – than Pandora and Spotify. There are over 200 “expert curated” stations available right now, which can all be personalized in some way. And another difference is Slacker says it employs actual DJs to program the stations rather than software. But Slacker says the selection at Pandora is limited. ![]() It also has pre-programmed music channels you can adjust along the way with likes or dislikes of particular songs. To suggest music services and related topics for review at Hypebot, please contact: clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com.Pandora’s popularity comes from its Genome Music Project, where you pick an artist (or more than one) and Pandora’s music discovery software chooses songs based on that. He blogs about web business models at Flux Research and the world of dance at All World Dance. Hypebot contributor Clyde Smith is a freelance writer and blogger. Other music services that rely on handpicked djs or editorial staff, though not direct competitors, include 955 Dreams, Groovebug and Dubset. I'd like to think that human curation can be a strong selling point but I wonder how much expertise is discounted in an environment in which music suggestions seem to emanate from all directions. Slacker's willingness to fund a staff of djs is a strong differentiator from other streaming music services at a time when competition is intense. Riggs is at the heart of Slacker's efforts, overseeing a group of contract DJs who build their stations' playlists from scratch and continually fine-tune them." "Although Slacker has struggled over the years to find the right business model, it has not deviated from its DJ-centric approach, believing that the way to people's ears - and wallets - is to offer music curated by experts in dozens of genres and sub-genres. "As director of music programming at…Slacker Inc., Riggs oversees about 70 DJs who select most of the songs played on the company's 150 stations, including genres as varied as trance, hip-hop, gospel and swing…" Music curation is taking on many forms and Slacker was recently profiled in the LA Times including some thoughts on the power of djs vs algorithms for programming choices.
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