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This article is written like an advertisement. Please help rewrite this article from a neutral point of view. For blatant advertising that would require a fundamental rewrite to become encyclopedic, use {{db-spam}} to mark for speedy deletion. (March 2009) The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion Slacker is a US only interactive Internet radio service. It allows users to create their own customized music stations starting with either Slacker's presets or a list of one or more artists. Slacker offers many traditional genre, specialty, and artist stations pre-programmed by professional DJs while also letting users build entire stations of specific artists. Slacker users can continue to evolve any of these stations by rating favorite songs and banning artists or songs. Stations can also be fine tuned to play older or newer music, more hits or more eclectic music. In January 2008, Slacker reported that the service had over 2 million songs, organized into over 100 professionally programmed stations, 10,000 artist stations, and an unlimited number of personally created stations [1]. Users can also create their own customizable radio stations and share them with anyone. The Slacker radio service is available to all Flash-enabled web browsers, and is also Slacker offers the experience "to go" with a portable device, the Slacker Portable Player [3] The Player refreshes users' customized Slacker channels over available Wi-Fi connections (WEP and WPA wireless security supported) and stores those stations in the device library so that users do not need to be connected to WiFi to listen to Slacker [4]. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Web Player Features 2.1 Stations 2.2 Customizing Stations 2.3 Ban and Favorite 3 Subscription Users 4 Software Player 5 Slacker Portable Radio Player 5.1 Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player 5.2 Devicescape Connect 5.3 Slacker G1 Personal Radio Player 5.4 Features 6 MySpace Widget 7 Third-Party Last.fm Audioscrobbler Hacks 8 Similar services 9 References 10 Recent Articles 11 External links // History Slacker was founded in 2004.[3] March 15, 2007 - Slacker, Inc. is launched. [5] The company is headed by Dennis Mudd, CEO. [6] Mr. Mudd is the former CEO of MusicMatch, which was purchased by Yahoo Music and is now known as LAUNCHcast. Other notable executives include the president Jim Cady, former CEO of Rio, and vice president of marketing Jonathan Sasse, former president of iriver America. September 20, 2007 - Slacker finalizes its deals with 4 Major labels; SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, EMI, Universal, | ||||
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