You have more options for streaming interactive radio than you might realize. Here’s what Slacker has to offer: a specific song or artist request function, and the ability to cache stations and replay them offline. What it’s missing: a playlist algorithm that digs deep enough to provide you with an educational (in terms of exposing you…
Slacker hopes to make your internet radio more like traditional AM and FM radio — but not in a bad way. At CES on Tuesday, the company announced that it will carry not only programs from American Public Media including “Marketplace” and “The Current,” but also a full-fledged station from The Weather Channel that carries…
Say what you will about AOL, but it still reaches lots of people. Nearly 50 million of them visited aol.com last month, and approximately three million listen to AOL Radio. AOL Radio, which used to be powered by Last.fm and MP3.com owner CBS, relaunched on Wednesday with Slacker Radio underneath the hood. The new AOL Radio is…
At one point, it seemed like CBS Radio was powering every streaming service from AOL to Yahoo, but it no longer powers the former. Interactive radio service Slacker announced Tuesday that it will provide interactive stations for AOL Radio, a part of newly-formed “The AOL Huffington Post Media Group’s AOL Music” — apparently named by…
Like many app developers, Slacker has been eagerly awaiting this, the day of the unveiling of Apple iOS 7, which brings a sharp, flat new interface to Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, plus new multitasking features and other improvements and tweaks — around 200 of them, by Apple’s count. Slacker’s overhaul for iOS 7,…
News organizations, particularly those concerned with technology, have spent much of today issuing the usual liveblogs and “what they said”-style articles about Apple’s big press event today, where it rolled out new iPhones, among other things. You won’t need one of those new iPhones to use one of the biggest parts of this announcement, iOS 7,…
This guest post from 8Tracks founder and CEO David Porter seeks to distinguish between the two main variants of music streaming service: internet radio stations and on-demand music subscriptions. Given that so many articles out there confuse music fans by lumping these two very different beasts together, we’re in favor of clarifying the situation, which…
As Pandora defends itself from public charges from Pink Floyd that it is trying to skimp on royalty payments, Apple has made it known that it will pay out higher royalties than Pandora. Pandora is the biggest competitor to Apple’s as-yet unlaunched iTunes Radio service. Apple offered terms that would, in iTunes Radio’s first year, pay…
Apple wants iTunes Radio to have special features and pay special rates, the way Slacker Radio does, rather than following the government-set rates and rules. So before Apple announced iTunes Radio earlier this month, it made special deals with the “Big Three” labels that reportedly involve sharing ad revenue, paying a smaller per-song rate, and offering other…
The iOS 7 beta version is in developers’ hands today, following yesterday’s WorldWide Developers Conference, and with it, the beta version of iTunes Radio (once known as “iRadio”). Anyone with an Apple developer’s account or $99 to get one — and an iOS device they don’t need to rely on for important matters — can…
Apple unveiled its new internet radio service on Monday as part of the iOS 7 operating system for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, as expected, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. You can’t use it yet, although a developer preview is available; it will ship with iOS 7 in the fall, and probably around the…
Apple is expected to announce its new iRadio music streaming service at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference later today, according to multiple sources, and has already inked special deals with all three major labels as well as Sony/ATV, which is Sony’s publishing arm. Sony/ATV CEO Marty Bandier says Sony/ATV will get 10 percent of the ad revenue…
When I broke the news (no, not this news) about Slacker Radio back in 2007 after receiving an amazing reader tip (I wish I could tell that story), it was still called Broadband Instruments. Part of its plan was to buy up Ku band satellite bandwidth so that it could load up its hardware players with…
Slacker Radio made a whole internet radio station consisting of music from SXSW, which took place in Austin, Texas last week. As usual, listeners are able to “heart” individual songs. Here are the ten most-hearted songs from that channel, providing a nice slice of new jams from the festival, which is unknowable in its entirety….
Yesterday, Spotify announced four new apps — its first to come directly from artists. We have been championing the idea that there’s plenty of gold yet to be mined in the area of apps that create a direct relationship between the artist and fan. Nobody has yet built exactly the thing we’re envisioning, but Spotify’s…
